Hello all, I've been lurking on and off here since late last year, and decided to finally bite the bullet and write my first forum post (on the net, ever!) about something I think fellow vegans (or those who aspire to be) will be best able to help me with.
I've dabbled in veg*nism for a few years, but only started saying I was moving towards a vegan (eating) lifestyle a couple of months ago. In contrast, my mum believed she probably would never be vegan because she likes non-vegan food too much... Until a few weeks ago when she watched Earthlings. Now she can hardly look at someone eating meat, and she only eats eggs from a relative who has a small organic farm in the country, which is a great start considering all these other dietry changes she's going through (limiting wheat, rice, potato, fried food, sugar, yeast etc).
However, one point I realised today that we don't agree on is what to do with all the meat products in the freezer/fridge. The pantry products are easy to give away, we're slowly thawing out the whole chunks of meat to feed to our cats, but what about the prepared frozen and refrigerated products?
My point of view is to eat the prepared animal products (albeit begrudgingly) if they can't be given away, since it would even worse to throw in the rubbish.
I found out today that my mum's view differs; apart from the cat's food, all the frozen/fridged products were thrown out.
I was horrified when I heard that. I know that the aim is to not consume animal products, but if we still have the consequence of our previous actions lurking in the house...
I understand why she threw the animal products away, but she doesn't understand mine for eating them, believing that eating it makes me no more ethical than a regular omnivore.
So the question is, what's the most ethical way to eat omnivorous prepared meals that can't be given away? It's too late for my house now, but I'd love to have a more experienced opinion on this.
I'm sorry if a similar post was asked before, or if I'm not very coherent, it's awfully late and this dilemma has mentally exhausted me.
~Catnfiddle
(I just realised I made my username Cathfiddle by accident, whoops! xD)
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