I’d like to share my experience when it comes to meat and food in general. I am an American born Male who moved to Australia when I was really young. I have grown up around a lot of people of which share VERY different cultures and backgrounds than me. Food was never an issue for me growing up but being raised by an ex-military dad. We were raised with the phrase “Take all you want, but eat all you take.” To me there was a constant attempt to bring understanding between where and how our food was made. We weren’t super noble. I’m not Vegan nor am I Vegetarian. I love meat and to me I find that it is important as a human who eats meat, I must understand what I am putting in my body. Because truthfully the meat industry has a lot of shady business, and I never want to undermine that fact. There is also truth in the fact that as a living being we need to kill things to live. I don’t see the moral logic between the death of an animal or a plant. We assign moral and emotional value to the things in our lives. So, it is best that we eat and devour with respect to the animals. There is nothing more shameful than the waste of food as that isn’t just work or money wasted, but the waste of the life that went into creating that meal. It’s human nature to create and to farm, and to produce. But it is also human nature to destroy and devour. The most important part I find within the food chain is that I can make sure that food is gotten as humane as possible and that I thoughtfully prepare and cook for those around me. Thank you for your time.
We don't eat meat because it simply only tastes good, but because it's basic biology. Vitamin B12 is a big example in this because it's simply not reliably found in a plant based diet and you need to take supplements for it. And moving onto the dehumanizing part, while alot of people arent comfortable with the idea of thinking about their food as once a living thing, alot more people simply acknowledge the fact that it was once living and move on. It isn't as much as a taboo as people like to play it up to be, like yeah, my burger had legs and was once living, but now it's not and it's going to allow me to continue living when i eat it. I do agree that alot of processing plants arent as humane as they could be, and would love for meat cows to be raised ethically, but those are less "vegan points" and more just general "good moral points". I don't think any living creature should be put through torture, but at the same time alot of money and work would need to go into it for factory farms to be entirely phased out. That's not to mention that growing food for vegan diets cause an equal amount of death because land that could have just been pasture for cows, or land that would have never been touched simply because the space was not needed, would now be sprayed with high power industrial level pesticides and rodentcides. NOTHING can live next to or in those farms because they would harm the crops, meaning every rabbit, rat, mouse, groundhog, many kinds of bugs and so on are exterminated to protect the farm, and that's not to mention the water cost of it all, places already struggling with droughts would be FUCKED over by this heavily. So raising and eating animals extends past simply just being a "we only eat meat because it tastes good", we eat meat because we HAVE to. There are plenty of undeniable health benefits to eating a balanced diet of meat and greens, and countries that struggle with droughts wont starve to death because we stopped raising animals and they need to use what little water they have to take care of the super massive crop farms. TL:DR : Humans eat meat because we're omnivores, we have since we lived in caves and switching everyone over to a plant only diet would cause B12 deficiencies to skyrocket and places with droughts to starve to death. Eat your meat, eat your greens and respect the animals that died so we don't starve. also fun fact, alot of processing plants will use over 90% of an animals body instead of just wasting it for things like spam, leather, medicine is a big one, and sometimes reused and put into animal feed. The more of a body they throw away, more money they lose, so they make sure to use as much as they can.
I dont know, i believe the denial of meat as a part of our diet just completely ignores the idea of the food chain and how some things have evolved to hunt or to be hunted. We have biologically evolved to hunt and eat prey. Now i dont agree the modern approach to animal consumption is working or "moral" but to say we shouldn't eat meat because it's mean is kinda silly. No one has to eat it tho just my perspective.
Seeing this video, i want to laugh knowking that the part of the video that its made of reclection doesnt make me feel bad, because i literaly or practically dont eat meat now.
So, you want to like Beastars but you're a biologist.... was my thoughts when I saw meat eating creatures act like eating meat was poison... someone really needs to tell Paru Itagaki deers eat meat hahaha
Not just deer, almost all herbivores are opportunistic carnivores. It's rough in the wild, even herbivores won't pass up easy protein if they happen to find some. I've heard cows & horses will sometimes eat chicks that wander in to their pastures.
I don't think the point of beastars was to be wildly accurate. It's world building is very separate from real animals in a lot of ways. In real life, red deer are way bigger than grey wolves too
I’d like to share my experience when it comes to meat and food in general. I am an American born Male who moved to Australia when I was really young. I have grown up around a lot of people of which share VERY different cultures and backgrounds than me.
Food was never an issue for me growing up but being raised by an ex-military dad. We were raised with the phrase “Take all you want, but eat all you take.”
To me there was a constant attempt to bring understanding between where and how our food was made.
We weren’t super noble. I’m not Vegan nor am I Vegetarian. I love meat and to me I find that it is important as a human who eats meat, I must understand what I am putting in my body.
Because truthfully the meat industry has a lot of shady business, and I never want to undermine that fact. There is also truth in the fact that as a living being we need to kill things to live. I don’t see the moral logic between the death of an animal or a plant. We assign moral and emotional value to the things in our lives. So, it is best that we eat and devour with respect to the animals. There is nothing more shameful than the waste of food as that isn’t just work or money wasted, but the waste of the life that went into creating that meal.
It’s human nature to create and to farm, and to produce. But it is also human nature to destroy and devour. The most important part I find within the food chain is that I can make sure that food is gotten as humane as possible and that I thoughtfully prepare and cook for those around me.
Thank you for your time.
10% Beastars, 90% vegan talking points.
im curious what you would say on the idea of circle of life and the consumption of organic material to sustain this cycle.
We don't eat meat because it simply only tastes good, but because it's basic biology. Vitamin B12 is a big example in this because it's simply not reliably found in a plant based diet and you need to take supplements for it. And moving onto the dehumanizing part, while alot of people arent comfortable with the idea of thinking about their food as once a living thing, alot more people simply acknowledge the fact that it was once living and move on. It isn't as much as a taboo as people like to play it up to be, like yeah, my burger had legs and was once living, but now it's not and it's going to allow me to continue living when i eat it. I do agree that alot of processing plants arent as humane as they could be, and would love for meat cows to be raised ethically, but those are less "vegan points" and more just general "good moral points". I don't think any living creature should be put through torture, but at the same time alot of money and work would need to go into it for factory farms to be entirely phased out. That's not to mention that growing food for vegan diets cause an equal amount of death because land that could have just been pasture for cows, or land that would have never been touched simply because the space was not needed, would now be sprayed with high power industrial level pesticides and rodentcides. NOTHING can live next to or in those farms because they would harm the crops, meaning every rabbit, rat, mouse, groundhog, many kinds of bugs and so on are exterminated to protect the farm, and that's not to mention the water cost of it all, places already struggling with droughts would be FUCKED over by this heavily. So raising and eating animals extends past simply just being a "we only eat meat because it tastes good", we eat meat because we HAVE to. There are plenty of undeniable health benefits to eating a balanced diet of meat and greens, and countries that struggle with droughts wont starve to death because we stopped raising animals and they need to use what little water they have to take care of the super massive crop farms.
TL:DR : Humans eat meat because we're omnivores, we have since we lived in caves and switching everyone over to a plant only diet would cause B12 deficiencies to skyrocket and places with droughts to starve to death.
Eat your meat, eat your greens and respect the animals that died so we don't starve.
also fun fact, alot of processing plants will use over 90% of an animals body instead of just wasting it for things like spam, leather, medicine is a big one, and sometimes reused and put into animal feed. The more of a body they throw away, more money they lose, so they make sure to use as much as they can.
I dont know, i believe the denial of meat as a part of our diet just completely ignores the idea of the food chain and how some things have evolved to hunt or to be hunted. We have biologically evolved to hunt and eat prey. Now i dont agree the modern approach to animal consumption is working or "moral" but to say we shouldn't eat meat because it's mean is kinda silly. No one has to eat it tho just my perspective.
Seeing this video, i want to laugh knowking that the part of the video that its made of reclection doesnt make me feel bad, because i literaly or practically dont eat meat now.
So, you want to like Beastars but you're a biologist.... was my thoughts when I saw meat eating creatures act like eating meat was poison... someone really needs to tell Paru Itagaki deers eat meat hahaha
Not just deer, almost all herbivores are opportunistic carnivores. It's rough in the wild, even herbivores won't pass up easy protein if they happen to find some. I've heard cows & horses will sometimes eat chicks that wander in to their pastures.
@@Blueberry.Brindle EXACTLY
I don't think the point of beastars was to be wildly accurate. It's world building is very separate from real animals in a lot of ways. In real life, red deer are way bigger than grey wolves too