what's y'alls stance on found, discarded animal-based food?
I'm dumpster diving for the past couple of months. combined with cruising the farmer markets around closing time, I usually score enough food that I have trouble carrying it home. seasonal vegetables and fruit mostly. I know a couple of spots where supermarkets throw away whole loafs of "expired" bread. in the freezer overnight, 7 minutes in the oven at dinner time - perfectly edible.
I've stopped eating meat like five years ago and I abandoned dairy and eggs a year ago. feel fine, lost weight; skin, hair and nails ain't the same but I'll live with it.
occasionally though I come across thrown away, intact meat and/or dairy stuff. like today, almost 5 Kg of some deli meat shit, I imagine it's pink slime inside, haven't opened it. it's past its best use date which don't bother me none. I'm not drawn to it, don't miss the taste or whatever, I'm just bothered by the waste of it.
so I'm not saying I'm gonna be swayed one way or the other but curious what other people think about this. thanks.
Youre such a terrific moron, like the archetype of a carnist.
A: you refuse to read, here is what I wrote to address that
B: you have to insist on hypotheticals that are at best some edge cases but aren't really relevant to daily consumption.
Even if it were possible to extract milk painlessly (it isn't) and it were possible to do so in an ethical manner (another nonstarter) the fact is that this isn't happening. Why insist on arguing about something that isn't real, but some imagined world where you make the rules how you want? Arguing about spherical cows in a frictionless vacuum is not really relevant in our day-to-day lives.
C: you refuse to read the material you are being spoonfed.
It simply isn't possible to extract milk painlessly and the material I linked explains why. I'd like to see you argue how you would impregnate a cow, get rid of her baby so you can have the milk for yourself in a painless manner. Keeping in mind that being able to control her life in such a manner already is not vegan.
D: you don't consider what actual vegans say.
I already answered this here https://lemmy.ml/comment/21393729 and most other vegans seem to, more or less, agree.
not really. It's very easy "are the animals property or free?". When in doubt ask yourself "what if it were a human?" and there then is your answer.