While I do think it’s hypocritical for a pacifist to want play Street Fighter, I’m okay with that human foible.
In my opinion, being a vegetarian comes with the loss of desire to eat meat and that translates into a lack of interest in meat substitutes. At any rate, that’s what happened to me. Two things contributed to that I think: 1, I was married to a vegetarian already and in her past life, ran a vegetarian restaurant. and 2, I changed for personal ethical reasons. I began to equate meat with death and realized that nothing HAD to die for me to eat. When I made that internal change, meat lost it’s interest.
I used to describe it as a thought experiment: if you learned that bacon was made of human babies, you would quickly begin to equate that taste with horror. it wouldn’t taste good if you knew that it killed human children. And on some level, that’s what I experienced, and it made the transition easy. I don’t look for meat substitutes. There’s enough non-meat food out there that I am satisfied and full anytime I go to eat.
But some people will always pine for the comfort food, regardless of what it is. And that’s fine too! The Buddhists are the ones that invented the seitan and multiple versions of meat substitutes. So yeah, that’s okay too. Whatever works for you.
However, there is still a part of my brain that thinks it’s hypocritical, which brings me back to my initial sentence. I think it’s fine to be a little hypocritical. Especially when you’re dealing with a big life change. As they say: The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. We all have to deal with that, so figure it out on your own terms. If that’s eating veggie versions of meat meals, go for it.
I’d disagree, here. The trouble with violence is all the very real consequences, both immediate and longer term. Video games can remove all of those negative externalities from an activity, and there doesn’t have to be any cognitive dissonance involved.
As to meat substitutes, again, there seems to be some essentialist confusion between the original inspiration and the replacement. Meat tastes good, has an enjoyable texture, and simply works well in cuisine. If you can replicate that without any of the ethical concerns, why not? Arbitrary satisfaction with a reduced palette seems a rather odd justification.
I certainly didn’t intend to suggest that the Daily Mail is now somehow worth reading.
I will point out for those not au fait with the intricacies of British newspapers that Greig was in fact on the Remain side of the debate.
And yes, the Mail is still a hateful organ. It’s oddly particularly noticeable now that they’ve toned down the Brexit stuff - the sidebar on their internet site is just a long stream of “So-and-so looks sizzling in her bikini”, “So-and-so stuns beachgoers with her toned abs”, “So-and-so dazzled on a night out in skimpy outfit”, and so on ad nauseam as are half the ‘stories’ in the main section.
I think their reputation for typos is still fairly well desrved deserved.
I disagree. Their typos used to be genuine typos - the wrong bit of hot metal being carelessly dropped out or dropped in. These days the “typos” are mainly grammatical howlers, and especially homophones. I blame the advent of 18-year-old sub-editors with the vocabulary of a 12-year-old and barely a GCSE in English comprehension between them. And something about lawns, while I’m here.
