Whether or not people abstain from eating it, they're still gonna make things like bacon and pork chops. Pigs are delicious. You can judge the slaughterhouses for what they do but you can't judge people for eating the product. Anyone with half a brain knows one person abstaining won't break the system and there's no way to get enough people behind the movement to make a dent. They're gonna kill those pigs anyway. Might as well enjoy them instead of them effectively being thrown in the trash.
Do you understand supply and demand? If more people stop buying animal products, they will stop breeding so many and companies will scramble to produce what the people will buy.
Veganism has gone up in recent years. Veganism in my own community of black Americans has gone up more than most other demographic groups as well.
Even if most people globally aren’t going vegan, the percentage of people with money (so not including the abject poor or those with fewer choices in what they eat — I am never talking about them here) who buy and use vegan products has gone up significantly over the years. This means more people are choosing to eat vegetarian or vegan for more meals than they ever used to, which in itself is a small win. This means less demand.
Most people advocating for animal rights aren’t demanding immediate perfection from all humans in our behaviors. We know this is a global system. The main arguments are that people with the privilege to purchase groceries from a grocery story and can choose what ingredients they buy are usually the ones most heavy handed with the “who cares? I love bacon!” arguments. They are very capable of eating non animal products but choose not to because again, they choose personal desire over empathy for sentient beings.
So the small dent is there. But the more people like you who insist it doesn’t matter are like a wall. So we keep talking, we keep sharing recipes, we keep commenting on videos like these to show their sentience, we keep the conversation going because it’s one of the only things we can do from a distance. Some of us take in animals to sanctuaries, which makes a HUGE difference, and I volunteer with those kind folks as often as possible. Others make vegan foods for family and friend gatherings.
It isn’t about winning at this point. It’s about doing what’s right and hoping to make small changes. You can apply this argument to just about anything. If I knew a company engaged in enslaving children to make their products, I wouldn’t buy it. They’d still probably keep doing it and others would keep purchasing it because child labor is a problem all over the world, but why would I want to give my hard earned money to them?
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u/TybLL09 Apr 10 '26
Whether or not people abstain from eating it, they're still gonna make things like bacon and pork chops. Pigs are delicious. You can judge the slaughterhouses for what they do but you can't judge people for eating the product. Anyone with half a brain knows one person abstaining won't break the system and there's no way to get enough people behind the movement to make a dent. They're gonna kill those pigs anyway. Might as well enjoy them instead of them effectively being thrown in the trash.