The newspaper sister has a hobby, which is to watch videos of interesting foods from all over the world on YouTube.
For example, South Korea eats octopus alive
Live fish sashimi in Japan
And China's... Bamboo rats?!
Although I can't eat it for a while and a half, I can also talk about it for comfort by watching the video.
However, the comment area of these videos is always less friendly.
(Pictured: There is a video of live food, there will always be a lot of people stepping on it)
"I'm angry that they didn't slaughter them in a humane way!"
"They are so cute, why do you eat them like this"
When it comes to raw food, Westerners are less receptive than we Asians. Many people feel that eating a living creature will cause it great pain and is very inhumane. To eat them, at least they should be "humanely" killed before speaking.
But there will also be people in these countries in the comment section who will retort: Our ancestors have eaten like this for hundreds of years, do we need you outsiders to point fingers? Animals are only animals after all, and the rights enjoyed by humans are different.
"The Easterners kill food in front of you, the Westerners kill the food behind your back."
So, a good food show, the comment area below will always quarrel into a pot of porridge.
However, these netizens who criticize eating live food are actually relatively mild. Because they only care about how you kill the food, not what you eat.
The views held by another type of netizen are more extreme. They're just -- vegans.
Veganism and vegetarianism are not the same. The latter refers to people who do not eat meat (including poultry, livestock, fish, shrimp and crabs, etc.) because they feel that it is immoral to kill another life for food.
And veganists go further than they do. They argue that it is not enough to just skip meat, because other foods such as butter, milk, eggs, cheese, etc., are also produced by animals. The chickens and cows that produce this food also work in a very inhumane camp environment: no freedom, no room for movement, a lifetime without seeing the sun, and being born part of a machine.
So for humanitarian reasons, humans should not eat these products produced by animals. If you eat, you are oppressing other species and practicing human hegemony. No one species should be more important than another.
(Pictured: Speciesism, which holds that some species are more advanced than others)
In addition, there are those who associate veganism with equality between men and women.
Not long ago, the famous actress Natalie Portman told the audience at a WE charity event in California why veganism should be chosen:
"When I got to know more about gender inequality, I learned that veganism and equality between men and women have a very important link."
"Milk products and eggs come not only from chickens and cows, they come from hens and cows. So the production of eggs and milk is exploiting the female body. ”
"Mothers are separated from their children, who produce eggs and milk in prison-like crowded, dirty conditions. If we treat animals this way, it's easy to treat people that way. ”
The reason why people on the Internet are so disgusted with these veganists now is because veganism is not just a code of conduct for them in the eyes of these supporters, but a universal principle that all people should abide by.
Pictured: Vegans package themselves as meat in supermarkets to protest meat eating
Many vegans feel that everyone who does not demand themselves from veganism is guilty. If you eat meat and drink milk, you are killing innocent lives. So everyone in the world should stop these behaviors immediately.
Many American netizens have shared their usual encounters with vegans.
For example, if you have a vegan friend, he/she will always tirelessly tell you the ten thousand benefits of being vegetarian: you can lose weight, lose fat, be healthier, and even help your sex life.
Veganism Propaganda Video: Veganists Are More Enduring. On the left are ordinary people, and on the right are vegans
In fact, because humans are omnivores, they naturally need some nutrients in meat. It's true that a vegan diet can be healthy to eat, but it requires a strict daily routine and regular intake of nutrients that can't be ingested from a vegetarian diet.
Another example is a group of people eating, and if one person is vegan, he/she may ask the whole table not to eat meat and animal products. Because just seeing a cooked animal carcass makes him feel uncomfortable.
Then when someone eats meat, vegans will keep whispering in their ears: this chicken was born a creature with life and freedom, but now it is brutally killed...
There is a Japanese dish called parent-child rice, in which eggs and chicken are boiled together and poured on rice. In the eyes of vegans, this becomes "the bones of mothers and children are crushed and cooked"...
That is to say, veganism is a very expansive program of thought with a strong impetus for outward expansion. Many vegans actively try to make those around them obey their values.
Some extremists will even take risks and commit illegal acts.
In 2017, for example, a group of "animal rights activists" ran into a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown and snatched the owner's own chickens.
They told police that "these chickens are not dead things, not a pair of scissors or a cell phone, but these shopkeepers treat life as if they were dead things." ”
"These animals need to be liberated like captives in a concentration camp."
In the end, the police arrested these activists for trespassing on private territory...
(Photo: Animal rights groups occupy farms)
Similar events occur every year in meat processing plants. These extremist animal rights groups track convoys of pigs and sabotage farms to "liberate" animals.
In fact, for most moderate vegans, there are not many stereotypes. After all, what you want to eat and what you don't want to eat is everyone's choice.
To tell the truth, the newspaper sister admires those who choose to eat vegetarian. Overcoming one's desire for meat and overcoming one's appetite is a matter of great self-discipline. If you can do it, then your willpower is already much stronger than most people.
However, when you start to interfere with other people's eating methods, start to use your own behavior standards to demand the people around you, and use your own values to diss others at will, your behavior has clearly crossed the line.
I once saw a news: a monk in Changsha, worried that the children in the welfare home were not well nourished, bought ribs in the supermarket.
I think that's the best attitude.