Help Me Eat Meat

If you are reading this, I’m hoping you can help me out. I love meat. I miss the convenience, I miss the taste, and I miss being easy breezy beautiful at parties and restaurants. Unfortunately, I asked myself the question “Why do I eat meat?”. This is when the problems started.

First thing you should know about me are some values that I try (and sometimes fail) to maintain in my life:

1. Not a fan of animal cruelty (controversial, but I wouldn’t kick a kitten for fun)
2. I want to leave the world a better place than I found it (even though the planet is actively burning 😔)
3. I aim to avoid hypocrisy in my day-to-day choices (What can I say, I love logical consistency)

The problem? When I finally sat down and thought about my actions in the context of my values, I ended up going vegan. Not because it sounded fun, but because I couldn’t find a single logical loophole left to stand on.

The Logic Audit

When I started searching for a solid justification to keep eating meat, every argument I found fell into one of four buckets:

• Natural: “Humans have always eaten meat.”
• Necessary: “We need meat to be healthy.”
• Normal: “Everyone else does it.”
• Nice: “The Pepe’s in Harlesden is undeniably delicious”

Disappointingly, when you stack these against my three values, they all fail.

The Realisation

Every argument that challenged my habit fell into one of these three buckets:

• Health: A plant-based diet is completely biologically adequate and often healthier (unless you live exclusively off chips and Oreos).
• Environment: Factory farming is a crazy inefficient industry and a leading driver of deforestation, emissions, and ecological collapse.
• Ethics: Is it wrong to cause unnecessary suffering and support factory farming?

Open-Sourcing My Thought Process

I built this site to walk you through that exact reasoning, so you can check it yourself and see if it holds up.

I don’t want to be someone who compromises my values for convenience! So if you can walk through this logic and find any flaws (a genuine, logical way to eat meat without violating those three values), I want to hear it immediately.

If you can find one, I’ll happily eat a chicken curry 🤤 with you (my treat)!