Being straight edge is a personal achievement for me, and I'm proud of the status and the label because I worked to earn it. It's exactly the same as climbing a mountain, many people don't see the point in it, and the only person who truely understands it is the climber himself. It's a personal voyage, even though it seems fashionable and popularised, it's still a personal voyage.
I still agree with meat. I know it's definately a required part of the human diet, humans benefit so much from it that it would be crazy to not notice that it's obviously something we're intended to eat. But the fact is, I've always found myself slightly, no, very freaked out at the idea of eating dead flesh, and that what I'm eating was once part of a living, moving, breathing animal. I also never really realised what I was doing, and I know this because on the few times that I've properly reminded myself that I'm eating an animal, I've been too disgusted to actually eat the rest of the meat. I'm so sure that if I realised it the rest of the time I just wouldn't be able to eat meat at all.
For some strange reason I'm okay about fish and chicken, they don't freak me out as much... chicken I eat only rarely, very rarely... fish more often. For instance tuna and salmon.
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