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This is why I've been increasingly depressed that I love meat so much. I've even started feeling bad swatting at flies. Humans are egotistical in our assumption that only our way of experiencing reality is special or meaningful. Just because what we call consciousness doesn't appear to exist in certain living beings doesn't mean they don't experience reality and memory in their own meaningful way we don't understand yet.
Imagine if we discovered blades of grass experienceed pain when cut - I've had some existential anxiety over shit like this ☠️
I hate to tell you, but the smell of a fresh cut lawn? The smell is screams. (It's a chemical distress call, begging for help from anything in the environment.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/30/world/plants-make-sounds-scn/index.html
Let the existentialism begin! 🔥🔥
Haha this is exactly what I was thinking of - I read this and it scared the shit out of me. Are we all just animals eating each other to survive and we should just.... eat the living things that appear to experience the least distress?
More possible existentialism!!
Give a try to being a vegetarian for a bit. It’s so much easier than just 3 years ago! There are a tons of replacement for meat today that are quite good and not expensive!
I've wanted to try! I've been grilling vegan burgers at home and replacing some things with tofu when I can. I can see how it'd be easier than a few years ago and definitely want to try like a week and see how I feel!
Make Indian food :D. It’s a gigantic country filled with vegetarians, they have some sick recipes :)