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Vegetarianos.

Hey, I have an idea: Let’s not lump 4% of the population of the world, and 40% of India, together and generalize a false dichotomy that you must not care about humans in order to care about other animals.

My father became a vegetarian because he read “Diet for a Small Planet,” which is about food rights and distribution among humans. I stopped eating red meat for the same reason. I also care deeply about animal rights, and since their rights are deeply entangled with our own, I don’t see how anybody could ignore one and care about the other.

That would be dissociation on a very deep level. Dissociation is a severe psychological problem.

That was meant to describe a particular kind of middle class vegetarians that follow me. Correct me if I’m wrong please, but most vegetarians (at least that I know) are middle class reformists and very ignorant about politics in general. Their activism is only push their eating morals on everybody around them and it is both useless to the animal rights issue and somehow elitist.

If mainstream popular vegetarianism was this one that you mentioned I’d shut up and become a vegetarian myself.

I’m sorry but this kind of vegetarian that you mentioned is a minoruty unfornunately for the animal and human rights issue.

Most of the vegetarians I know are also political. If you wanted to talk about liberal vegetarians (similar to liberal feminists), then say “liberal vegetarians.” Just like it would be ridiculous to say that feminists don’t support intersectionality, it is ridiculous to say that vegetarians aren’t political. Liberal feminists don’t support intersectionality, and liberal vegetarians are apolitical.

Why does it have to be mainstream for you to become a vegetarian? Shouldn’t it be based on your beliefs, and if animal rights and human rights (relating to food justice and vegetarianism) fits your beliefs, you become a vegetarian?

(Source: anonymous-lady)