I grew up on a farm in New Zealand, water is plentiful, cows eat grass and are calved on milk that for one reason or another would be wasted otherwise. Processing of the meat was done in the paddock by a home kill butcher.
In the same way people like going on cruises but don’t worry about how much bunker fuel it burns, I like eating meat and will continue to do so.
If you want to be vegetarian great, but I’m making a lifestyle choice that I’ll eat meat because I enjoy it and all of the dishes that can’t be made without it.
-“I only eat meat/eggs/milk from my uncle’s farm”
- “I only eat what I hunt, kill, fish, trap, find”
- “Plants have feelings too!”
- “Studies are not conclusive/improperly done/biased/too old”
- “I love meat”
-“Lab meat is the future”
- “ But mice/bees/small animals/ butterflies/ bedbugs in fields”
- “Plant based diets are elitist”
- “Protein tho”
- “B12 tho”
- “A friend of the brother of the neighbor of my dentist ended in the hospital after trying to be vegan for 6 hours.”
After being vegan for 10+ years I’ve heard everything, you know what all sounds to me? “I don’t care enough to make the slightest effort”.
The thing that seems to be escaping you is that others have different value systems and desires.
So I’ll agree with you, as per your definition, people don’t care enough about what you care about to put effort in to align themselves the way you have aligned.
People act like going vegetarian is some giant sacrifice. It's not that hard. Westerners just view it as poor people stuff. If you want meat to be a luxury so bad then let's cut the subsidies and see what the real cost of it is when you factor in the actual impact.