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I would prefer to spend holidays with family but I don’t because they prefer to eat flesh and I am against animal abuse. I think it’s the right thing to do to protest this by not going but it sucks.
My stance on eating meat is kind of the exact opposite of what I was asking here. It's one of the two things I continue doing despite not being able to morally justify it. Piracy is the other one.
both are easy to justify. humans share (food, culture, stories, songs, tools, etc). piracy is natural. laws that prohibit it are immoral.
as for eating meat, there is cost, convenience, and culture: for many people eschewing meat simply isn't reasonable given their circumstances.
Vegan diets are ~16% cheaper on average in the US but even if they weren’t, a dollar a day does not justify killing someone.
can you substantiate this?
no one is killing anyone for meat
You could choose to subtly influence your relatives, but instead you "protest". Pfft. Given the vegan I knew well, what you're actually doing here is not going because you're too grossed out by it. You know not going won't inspire anyone to change, but you tell yourself that lie to justify it because being grossed out is not a high minded reason.
I have been requested to not talk about it.
Partner stopped going and the next year all family events were fully vegan because family prefers being together over eating flesh.