Won't lie. We're almost at BBQ season and I'm going to be smoking up all kinds of goodness on the pit that'll make yo mouth water. I'll post pics but if it's too offensive I'll just keep the food pr0n to myself.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    4 years ago

    Is meat actually potentially triggering for someone's lived trauma? Like factory farming is fucked for sure but...nobody here is a factory farmed animal freed from their bonds. I guess if someone had some traumatic edible animal abuse situation that they're trying to cope with and they want to avoid that? Maybe don't sub to the food comm then.

    My gut take is that folks asking for a CW on pictures of cooked or prepared meat are sort of delegitimizing the actual purpose of the CW. Diluting what it should be used for. You can easily get into a space where we just CW anything. Do we CW any post about religion because of trauma people experienced there? CW any post about school because folks experience trauma there? I hate the whole slippery slope thing but there's a line somewhere

      • Infamousblt [any]
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        4 years ago

        True enough, but I'm struggling to see where the trauma is at here at all, secondary or otherwise. I mean yes, animal abuse is awful, and factory farming goes well beyond abuse, but there's a gulf between "posting pictures of factory farming" and "posting pictures of a brisket." I'm genuinely not trying to say that anyone's trauma is invalid, I just struggle to see where "a picture of meat" is genuinely traumatic to anyone. Uncomfortable? Absolutely. Disgusting? I can definitely understand. But traumatic? It's a big word that has real weight behind it and I think it's important to keep it that way. We aren't talking about people here, we're talking about animals. Do I think animals should have rights? Yeah definitely. Do I think it's appropriate to anthropomorphize them and equate animal struggles to human struggles? No chance, and I think that equating the two as if they're the same is harmful to all of the humans who are struggling too. So I think my main point is that I don't see how a well-removed-from-the-process picture of an animal that may or may not have struggled at all is going to be traumatic and triggering to a human. I'm not seeing the connection; humans are not factory farmed anywhere in the world, and humans and animals are not the same.

        If this is something that IS traumatic to you, sorry that I'm not understanding, and please note that I have no expectation that you relive it just to try to help me understand either. Not trying to debate bro you either, I think it's an interesting topic and I'm happy to learn something from the process.

          • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            There is already c/vegan though. Isn't that supposed to be a place where vegans can post about food without ever having to see or discuss meat?

          • Infamousblt [any]
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            4 years ago

            Thanks. This article is interesting. I agree with basically everything you're saying with regards to animals and animal rights, I think we just disagree on where the line is between animal rights and human rights. It's an interesting topic, so thanks for the discourse on it.