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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      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