I have a rant about people and planetary care.
Hear me out and bear with me for a minute or two, if you have the time and patience -
I eat meat
And I like eating meat
And when it's possible I prefer to be the one to kill an animal *myself* if I'm going to eat it.
BUT
That absolutely does NOT give me the right to kill shit unnecessarily.
And it does NOT give me the right to cause other animals pain or suffering.
There is a REASON for humane euthanasia practices.
An animal you're eating should be given the respect and consideration of a quick death that does not follow a fearful interaction.
You don't just get to make other animals suffer because you're going to eat them.
And certainly not just because you consider them a pest in your way.
Very little separates you, as a "human", reading this in our little made up society, from everything else as an "animal" - killing and fucking without thought for consequences beyond success or death. Consideration for HOW one kills is a huge part of maintaining that imaginary construct we sometimes call "society".
This thing we're all doing together? Living like "humans"?
That can only happen if we can all be something more than animals together.
It doesn't happen on its own, we have to *decide* to do it *together* or else we ARE just animals who put on clothes.
Respect your food.
Use humane practices.
Don't poison pests.
If you can handle it, maybe even put spiders and centipedes and moths back outside if you find them - they have jobs to do also.
Everything in this world has a place in our ecosystem, that's WHY it exists in the first place.
Not everything belongs to "humanity"
Quick fucking up our planet - we don't own it, we just work here.
