I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don't eat beef. It's not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn't raised very religious, I didn't go to temple everyday and read Gita every evening unlike most muslims who are somewhat serious about their religion, my family has this watered down religion (which has it's advantages).

But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don't care that I don't eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?

edit: I like religious music, religious temples (Churches, Gurudwara's, Temples & Mosques in Iran), religious paintings and art sometimes. I know for a fact that the only art you could produce is those days was indeed religious and the greatest artists needed to make something religious to be funded, that we will never know what those artists would have produced in the absence of religion, but yeah, religious art is good nonetheless.

  • booty [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don't care that I don't eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?

    No more half measures walter

    go vegan

    • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      https://www.slurrp.com/article/why-india-has-the-worlds-lowest-meat-consumption-per-person-1670058643313

      Also, I am not having as much effect on the environment by eating meat. I eat once or max twice every month. Not every day like some americans (soap opera americans)

      • machiabelly [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The american expectation is to have meat with every meal. Bacon/sausage with breakfast, ham sandwich with lunch, then a roast or steaks for dinner.

        Americans will literally view a plate of food without meat as a snack. Like, its not a meal unless there is meat. Meat is very inexpensive here because soy and corn are heavily subsidized. All animal products are roughly half the price of what they would be without the subsidies.

    • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      go vegan

      nah I love meat! Can't live without it. I thought I would eat factory manufactured meat, but that sounds like just a bunch of fucking chemicals bunched into one. I thought they would just grow meat like in the lab, but no. Pretty misleading ads out there.

        • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.ml
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          don't worry, we indians eat the lower meat per capita in the world. I don't eat meat once a week, it's more like, once every month

          • Iraglassceiling [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Fyi the Hexbear code says if you don’t want to have this debate you just need to say “disengage” and the person is supposed to respect your boundary.

            I don’t know if people know that or not.

          • booty [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Yes I do. You do not need to eat animals.

          • raven [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            It's incredibly unlikely that they "need" meat. I do know that they need to stop killing sentient beings for their taste pleasure.

              • raven [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                you don’t know what they need.

                You wouldn't believe me if I said I "need" a monster truck to commute to my desk job. There's a vanishingly small number of people who "need" to eat meat, and certainly not someone who says they need it because "I love it". If they had a genuine necessity they would have led with that.

                pretty sure most animals are killed for convenience or profit

                Way to almost get it.

                pretty much no one does that at all, except pests or by accident

                jesse-wtf

              • raven [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                No, I didn't "attempt to refute it" because I don't know what the fuck you're saying.
                Are you secretly one of our vegan posters trying to be as insufferable as possible to make anti-vegans look bad? If so you're doing an incredible job xi-clap

      • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        All food is just a bunch of chemicals bunched into one.

        I know what you mean though, and while, as far as I know, some manufactured meat is actually just grown in a lab, there's a lot of stuff needed to keep cell cultures alive outside of a body that I wouldn't really want to eat or have around my food, so it'll be something to watch out for when it's widely available.

        Still morally and environmentally better though, in most cases.