The meat to bone ratio per wing is dreadful, and they also leave your hands a greasy sticky mess
[Inevitable vegan post]
with legs and wings, it harder to ignore the body count for me. Like 6 wings means 3 chickens died. Like, obviously, breast are a one-to-one, but its less obvious somehow. Its like steak or hamburger; it could be 1/100th of a cow.
edit: i’m barely even vegetarian these days. I need to rebuild some habits
A couple of months ago, I got one of those rotisserie chickens half off near closing time at a supermarket. This lead to me spending the evening re-enacting Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son in front of my computer. I felt like one of those chimps you see in nature documentaries eating a baby gibbon
I had some fired burned steak yesterday. shits good. primal and bloody. but one of those things that even normal people wouldn’t do if they knew what the whole process looked like start to finish. pretty sure /r/happycows is a psyop by the meat industry
I want to be vegan. I also don’t know why, but I don’t feel bad about the whole eating sentient beings thing. Watched the documentaries, all that. I’ve taken breaks from meat multiple times. One day I think I’ll join the crew. Maybe if I dated a vegan that would help.
For me it’s the lifetime of suffering in trade for maybe 10 minutes of enjoyment eating chicken legs.
I could say the same thing about every fruit and vegetable. Migrants are forced to live a life of suffering just so I can eat some broccoli. Or the soy industry actively destroying the rainforest.
I could also flip that and say a worker suffers in trade labor, at least give them 10 minutes of enjoyment with that wing. Like someone posted they were depressed and hadn’t eaten in a week so they bought some chicken tacos. My worry comes for the human before the animal. And if that chicken kept them alive another day I’m glad they ate. When I went vegan I also found myself just not eating and relying on other unhealthy outlets.
Veganism falls into the category of personal responsibility that I don’t latch onto. If we want to change our system and ban meat production I’m down, but shaming people into a personal responsibility argument never seems to work.
