• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    My sis had to loosen her vegetarian standards for the sake of her daughters health.

    We are omnivores, accept that fact. While you can survive without flesh (and the modern person eats too much of it), it requires personal effort and research to find substitutes, with the risk of damaging your health. And most just prefer some meat or fish now and then.

    Btw, almost all herbivores are opportunistic omnivores, because they can’t research substitutes. Even sheep eat chicks, there, i said it.

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      2 days ago

      I accept it; I enjoy most types of meat. But the fact that you can survive without meat makes it optional, which is relevant to the debate we were having about the morality of killing/harming animals for different purposes.

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        2 days ago

        You can survive without eating any food for some amount of time. Fasting works until you run out of fat. It’s not sustainable.

        It is not possible to be healthy sustainability on zero animal products, those that do it require supplements.

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          1 day ago

          There’s research in this area, I don’t feel like debating it as if it were a matter of opinion.