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thrown away animal-based food (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by glitching@lemmy.ml to c/vegan@lemmy.ml

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what's y'alls stance on found, discarded animal-based food?

I'm dumpster diving for the past couple of months. combined with cruising the farmer markets around closing time, I usually score enough food that I have trouble carrying it home. seasonal vegetables and fruit mostly. I know a couple of spots where supermarkets throw away whole loafs of "expired" bread. in the freezer overnight, 7 minutes in the oven at dinner time - perfectly edible.

I've stopped eating meat like five years ago and I abandoned dairy and eggs a year ago. feel fine, lost weight; skin, hair and nails ain't the same but I'll live with it.

occasionally though I come across thrown away, intact meat and/or dairy stuff. like today, almost 5 Kg of some deli meat shit, I imagine it's pink slime inside, haven't opened it. it's past its best use date which don't bother me none. I'm not drawn to it, don't miss the taste or whatever, I'm just bothered by the waste of it.

so I'm not saying I'm gonna be swayed one way or the other but curious what other people think about this. thanks.

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[–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

In the same way that anti-racists can still have unaddressed racist beliefs, vegans can still have unaddressed carnist beliefs that they should try to get out of their minds. Thinking of uneaten meat as a 'waste' of food is one such belief. It means you still ultimately think of non-human animals as products to be eaten. Like, do you consider a burial to be a 'waste' of good human meat? Why do you have a different opinion on non-human meat? If you don't like seeing them rotting in the trash, you can give them a burial.

Unless you do consider burials a waste of resources I guess, then keep doing what you're doing.