they don't want you going vegetarian because they care about animals, they want you going vegetarian because eating other creatures isn't for livestock like you. it's not even that they think it's bad for you, it's that they don't want you having their treats.  don't even bother with vegetarianism if you don't believe in souls. there's no health-conscious or purely biological justification for such a dramatic lifestyle change, and in fact it's unnatural and reliant upon artifice in the case of veganism. much of the cherrypicked data is just people trying to manipulate you into acting out their ethics, and in the case of the elites pushing for "plant-based" shit, it's not even because they think nobody should participate in the suffering, it's because they think you aren't worthy of it.    i want to slap this man specifically
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