I keep eating meat even though I can't morally defend how that meat is produced. And I'm not planning to stop either.
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Out of curiosity, what is preventing you from stopping or at least reducing?
Taste and convenience. Not much more to it.
Same. Though I have greatly reduced how much meat I eat. Now it's basically down to just turkey or chicken, an occasional burger/steak. But mostly I get my protein from beans these days.
Same also. I pretty much cut out beef. I eat mostly chicken now. But I've been expanding my vegetarian recipes, I go full veg a few days a week now.
I try hard to keep sugar, especially added sugar, out of my kids' diet.
Last week my girlfriend and I bravely ate a whole cake in the shed to protect the kid from the sugar.
You're a good parent.
Well, I don’t let my cat sit in my office chair, but I’m perfectly content to sit in it myself whenever I feel like.
I work with people and I always try to help them be gentle with themselves. I'm incredibly bad at that ... Baby steps are my endgame.
I think according to my moral standards I should be vegan, but I'm only vegetarian.
I think the most common thing is something will happen and you will say you should do X but if you are in the situation you won't do X because you don't have time to think about it enough.
Not thinking about it in the heat of a moment vs a chill situation is a bit different, no?
yeah but the person who was just coming out of the heat of the moment can get a bit frustrated when you talk about it because your sorta really talking about how to perfectly handle it. Of course everyone hopes that maybe by talking about it then next time in a similar situation will be ready to act in a way with better outcomes.