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Parent Post: Beyond Red Meat: Everything Containing Mammalian Ingredients That Can Trigger Alpha-Gal Syndrome
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capncrunch25
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5/21/2026, 5:20:35 PM
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I am vegan because I asked myself the hard questions about what is right and wrong. Animal rights are the same as human rights, our individual lives are ours and no one deserves to have that taken away from them if it can be helped. Profiting off of slavery is wrong and so is murder. We know this, our society is predicated on this. So why the blindness towards animals? We DO NOT need to enslave, murder or eat them to survive. I am 61 years old and I have vegetarian for most of my adult life and vegan for the last 12 years. I am healthy and do not miss being part of this evil. So a tick is causing you so much strife? What do you think a slaughter house would do to you? We should all be able to answer these questions and have the moral strength to do what is right. If we cannot, what does that tell you about yourself?
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sonatime
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5/22/2026, 2:25:47 AM
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I don’t subscribe to the idea that animal rights are equal to human rights, especially when that belief often leads to inviting government force into personal choices. That said, if I had to personally kill animals for meat, the only creature eating it around here would probably be my dog. I’m not particularly eager to do it myself. I’m strongly for freedom of choice rather than political or governmental coercion when it comes to diet. Eating vegan doesn’t bother me personally, though I do think it feels nutritionally incomplete for most people. Vegetarianism seems much more balanced and sustainable. I’m not interested in enforcing any dietary rules on others. Humanity made it this far by eating what actually worked. The tick causing Alpha-Gal syndrome isn’t a minor inconvenience, it’s a serious immunological reaction that can lead to dangerous allergic responses or even death. I don’t want that for myself or anyone else. I also find it concerning that under the banner of “limiting carbon,” nearly all life-sustaining activities are becoming political targets. All forms of food production have environmental costs, that’s just reality. But the greater evil is trusting central planners or large corporations to “fix” our food system and control the supply. Ideally, I would prefer to be mostly vegetarian with my own local food sources. I would raise animals humanely, not necessarily to eat myself, but to maintain the breeds and let my dog eat animal protein the way nature intended.
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5/25/2026, 7:05:29 PM
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Hello, Thanks for your thoughts and comments. 1\. I don’t subscribe to the idea that animal rights are equal to human rights, especially when that belief often leads to inviting government force into personal choices. This is not the same. The globalists are not about freedom they are about control. They are to never be trusted of course, as you know. Most of the words they are used to inflame and manipulate. One of the strongest lobbies in the US are the cattle ranchers. They are animal slave traders and they profit off the trade and the ultimate murder of the "cattle." I do not see the globalists taking them on, it is a scam and so are their hollow words. Why do you not see every being has the right to exist as do you? 2, I do think it feels nutritionally incomplete for most people. I think this is a point that is brought up a lot. My wife and I get asked "what do you do for protein" a lot. Like everyone we eat proteins and we get all our nutrients from plants. It is not hard and I am now over 60 and every few years I get my blood checked to make sure I am healthy and there are no red flags. The results have always been good. I feel good and healthy. There is a Leo Tolstoy quote that expresses my sentiments and why I made the choice to even go from vegetarian to vegan. It is wrong to kill and the normalization of animal slaughter harms us profoundly. “As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.”
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