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.

  • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.ml
    hexagon
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    10 months 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.

    • booty [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Can't live without it

      Yes you can.

      • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.ml
        hexagon
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        10 months 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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          9 months 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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          9 months ago

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

        • raven [he/him]
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          9 months 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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              9 months 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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              9 months 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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      9 months 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.