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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • You are attempting to get me to admit that the meat I eat is from the same factories that torture animals as an admission of guilt. I am not guilty, and I do not feel guilty, because unfortunately that isn’t how our society/economy works. I eat what is available and easily accessible to me just like millions of others. And like many of those millions of others, I just so happen to like meat. So yes, I fund the torture of animals, but I am as guilty of funding the torture of animals as someone purchasing an item on Amazon is of funding the torture of warehouse workers.

    Just like everyone else, I live my life as best as I am able within my own capacity. I’m glad that you have the capacity to not fund the companies that treat animals so horribly. Someone needs to, and I hope that we can do away with them entirely at some point. But I do not have the capacity for that fight in my life right now, and I am not ashamed of that because I’m doing the best I can with what I have.





  • I feel like you didn’t really read what I said. I eat meat because I like it. I have no desire to go out of my way to not eat meat. If I don’t feel like eating meat with a meal then I won’t. I have no internal struggle or “convincing myself that it’s ok”. I despise the way food animals are treated, like they’re not even living creatures, but I feel no guilt in eating the end result.

    Frankly you have no right to make such assumptions about my character. You have no idea of my situation any more than I have of yours. If you can be a vegan and be happy, good! I’m happy for you. But I am not a vegan, and I am also happy. Saying “Everybody should be a vegan” is no different than saying “Everybody should run a mile every day”. Sure it’s a generally beneficial lifestyle, but it’s just that: a lifestyle, and it’s not for everybody.





  • TheMoose@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlbetter hurry
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    1 year ago

    All good! “Fell” is the past tense of “fall”. Aternatively in some cases you could say “did fall”, though in modern English that’s usually used as an affirmative to a question about the fallen status of the chocolate (e.g. [which is short for the Latin “exemplia gratia” , meaning “for example”], Question: “Did the chocolate fall?” Answer: “Yes, the chocolate did fall” or “Yes, it did fall”).

    There are actually other (irrelevant) meanings of the word “fell”; as an adjective in “a fell beast” for example, “fell” means “fierce, cruel, terrible, or dreadful”; or as a verb meaning “to knock, strike, shoot, or cut down; cause to fall” for example " to fell a moose" or “to fell a tree.”