The conversation eventually led to them implying they might engage in cannibalism given the opportunity. Carnism takes the mind some weird places.

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      One of my old university professors is vegan and he liked to tell a story about how his child pointed out cows while they were driving. So they stopped and pet them through the fence on the side of a slow highway. Ranchers don’t want you to know this, but you can absolutely just stop and pet the cows and maybe be the only person in their life to show them genuine compassion.

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    One of the high up meat bags pretending to be human at a previous sales job said he only donates to animal charities because they’re better than people while we were at some ritzy steakhouse and I was eating just a potato