I used to think I'd never be able to get rid of chicken nuggets, scrambled eggs, my beloved cheese, greek yogurt, ice cream or milk chocolate. But the vegan profiles on instagram, vegan youtubers, vegan blogs and food brands made me start finding out more about this lifestyle. On the other hand I have to admit that the ingredients of some vegan products is not perfect at all too. They don't contain animal products but they still may contain a lot of white sugar, flour, preservatives, colorants, palm oil and other igredients which may not harm animals but at least it definitely have bad effect ourselves, our health and also on the nature around us. And that led me to the idea of "ethical eating".
What is it all about? Ethical eater has actually no forbidden types of food. They can eat dairy, eggs, as well as meat But in appropriate quantities and under the condition that they know where the food is from and how was it produced. Ethical eating means thinking about what you eat and what you buy in the grocery store and consider if it effects the environment. Simple as that. And of course you should also think about your own health.
What is it all about? Ethical eater has actually no forbidden types of food. They can eat dairy, eggs, as well as meat But in appropriate quantities and under the condition that they know where the food is from and how was it produced. Ethical eating means thinking about what you eat and what you buy in the grocery store and consider if it effects the environment. Simple as that. And of course you should also think about your own health.
Ethical eating doesn't prohibit eating meat - if you know that the animals weren't locked in tiny dark buldings with no windows, crammed one on the other, rolling in their own feces, if you know that nobody feed them with antibiotics, nobody hurt them etc. Also it's okay to eat dairy if the milk's from a farm where the cows/goats/sheep were raised in free space, they weren't artificially inseminated all the time, they didn't take their babies from them immediatelly, they weren't milked by machines etc. The case of eggs is a bit more complicated - of course the first condition of ethically eating eggs is how the hens were raised. But there's one other thing - it's actually the reason why vegans don't eat them - the eggs can contain the enbryo. So ethical eater should eat only eggs that weren't fertilized (which means that the farmer has only hens or the hens and the roosters are separated).
(Update: When I think about it now, I think that eating meat is really not ethical at all. So as an ethical eater I'd rather eat the animal products except meat).
(Update: When I think about it now, I think that eating meat is really not ethical at all. So as an ethical eater I'd rather eat the animal products except meat).
Ethical eating is not just about meat, eggs and dairy. We should also limit buying processed food, that we can make on our own using healthy fresh ingredients. Like why should you buy instant oatmeal full of sugar if you can cook your own for example with a lot of fresh fruit? Also we shouldn't buy food during whose cultivation were used pesticides, herbicides and other substances which degrade the soil. Another rule is buying fair trade products - which means support brands which offer fair prizes, don't exploit cheap labor etc. Overall we should not support big companies which fill the supermarkets by enormous amount of not very quality food products, they care only about the quantity and they don't care about how the food was produces. Also, why we need SO MUCH food? There's hunger in some countries whereas we buy XXL packages of unhealthy, low quality products which end in our dustbins. Isn't it crazy?
Think before you buy and eat something! :)
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