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I'm a vegetarian -- I originally stopped eating meat because I think the meat industry is gross and horrible, but I don't have any illusions that I'm making a difference by not buying meat to eat, especially when I still consume dairy and eggs myself, and those industries are equally horrific. I don't judge non-vegetarians because not everyone has time for every cause all the time, and I know that. I'm not going to check every article of clothing I buy to make sure it's not from a sweat shop, I'm not going to stop buying computers because they were probably made by Chinese slaves, and I'm not going to stop buying tomatoes because they were farmed by enslaved immigrants right here in the United States. If it were all about that, I'd be eating chicken nuggets right now, but honestly I just really like animals at this point and don't think of them as food. They're just other beings to me. It would just feel weird. To be completely honest, I'd think of it as an ideal future if people stopped eating meat, but I'm not foolish enough to think that is anywhere close to happening in the current cultural climate. People want everything to happen overnight. Just stick to your own moral standards, be reasonably vocal about things you think are important without making people's ears bleed, and don't bother whining about things on social media unless you are taking at least some small action in real life.