friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly
like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices
Their defense of veganism not being anti-indigenous cultures was, as a whole, kinda bad. Also, they try to imply peta isn't a cesspit and that people dislike it due to psyops. Ridiculous.
Different critique, but that's for like 90% of texts in english about the topic: Meat consumption isn't correlated with Brazil cutting down forests. What do I mean by that? Most of the land we gain by cutting the forest sits unused for YEARS, because its primary use isn't soy or meat production; it's speculation.
Let me repeat it: they don't cut the trees because people are eating more meat and need more space for cows; they cut it down so they can have that land as an asset to sell later. Of course, if the world stopped eating meat, the dynamic would change, and maybe the cutting would stop(doubtful, because it's also for the wood), but what I meant to say is that how much meat we eat isn't directly correlated with how much forest is cut, those too things are uncupled from one another, the meat consumption may go down and the deforestation may still go up.
I was genuinely gagged about the PETA thing like. okay. I'm with you about shady corporate image laundering! that's real! but PETA has also for real done shit like compare eating meat to slavery and the Holocaust, dress up like the KKK, and blatantly suggested that drinking milk causes autism. that's not a psyop that's just PETA being a shitshow.
