Because I do. Imagining stuff like that kinda helps me cope sometimes. It's like a mental escape from the harsh and extremely upsetting reality that is animal agriculture and the people in this world who justify it for selfish reasons. I like to imagine living in a world where animal rights are important to everybody (or at least the vast majority) and farming animals for food isn't even a thing.
Everybody's just vegan by default, and if a person were ever to suggest harming animals for food or clothing in this fictitious world, the population would basically look at them as if they just insulted somebody's mother in the worst possible manner. Haha. I mean, it just gets so darn tiring being a vegan in a non-vegan world sometimes. Oh, who am I kidding? All the time. I know a fully vegan planet is only a fantasy at this point, but it helps to think that someday, it might actually become reality.
Does anybody else like to fantasize about this stuff too (as a way to cope with the opposite being true)? π±π
Sometimes I forget that I don't.
My husband and I are both vegan, as are our close friends who come over for movies and game nights. I work from home, eat snack, lunch, and dinner from home. As long as I'm home, my little world seems vegan. I don't have to say 'vegan cheese' or 'that fake salami' I just say the words as what they mean to me, in my house... In my house, animals are sentient, emotional, loving, intelligent beings that are treated with respect. We don't kill the spiders, we hang up birdhouses and bat boxes for the local wildlife, and it sits well with our souls.
But then I leave my house, and I'm back to putting up emotional barriers when I walk through the grocery store or when out shopping. I'm back to being on guard and trying to do what's right.
I think the best thing we can do is try to bring that dream of yours (of many of us) to life in our own little parts of the world. The little sanctuary you create for yourself is a little sanctuary you've also created for love and understanding.
how are these people real
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I like to imagine a world where everyone is so racist that we can ignore all of our differences and unite the world under one racist banner.
Alas, that will only come true if we get invaded by aliens.
Still, more likely than everyone going vegan. Vegetarian maybe, but not vegan, I need my eggs and cheese to survive.
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I dont kill invasive species in my living space because thats bad. However i house birds and bats which do kill thise bugs, which is good.
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Oh how I wish a vegan planet were true, we could send the annoying preachy vegans off on a spaceship to their utopia and then the rest of us could live peacefully without "bees aren't plants, don't eat honey!" and "shrimp feel emotions too!"
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