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donate. Today the topic I want to address is the assertion that what we eat is a personal choice

and that we don't want to be told what to eat.

Many people see their food choices as being very personal and they certainly don't want to be told what to eat by

vegans they don't want to be told that they're not allowed to choose what they

want to eat or how to live and it's something that I want to address today. Now first of all it has to be said that we are being told what to eat all the time.

The messages we get, especially ingrained in us and we're so

used to you're kind of the advertising and the marketing that we actually believe that eating meat dairy and eggs

is a neutral position but to be vegan is to take a position or to be biased or to have an

agenda. Eating meat is not neutral. It is a position. It's just status quo.

But just because a position is status quo doesn't mean it's not a position. So it's still a position, right?

Because we have this notion like, oh, beacons have an agenda. Well, we all have an agenda.

We all have a position. We all have a bias. Just because a bias is status quo doesn't mean it's not a

bias. But it's a real testament to the marketing of the meat dairy and egg industries that have made us believe that they have our best interest at heart but if a vegan comes along

they have an agenda in a way that's actually harmful.

So that's the first thing I really want to say. The second thing I want to say is, you know, as far as personal choice goes, the problem with this justification, eating meat is my personal preference, is that it assumes there's no victim. It assumes there's no other. It implies

that the meat eaters desires or traditions or culture or taste buds are superior to anything or anyone else and that because of this

he or she is absolved from the harm that eating meat or dairy or eggs causes but But it doesn't hold water. As a society we collectively

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