My entire argument is subjective, like any other, as it stems from my personal views, thoughts and experiences.

Depends on who you ask and the background of your question.

Yes

It is undeniable in current day the horrors industrial farming creates and inflicts on millions of sentient beings to sustain a business that was originally fomented in order to supply food for a post-war world where several countries were rendered with little or no usable land for farming.

The traditional model of farming, where animals were an integral part of a production chain that kept the land itself alive and reduced waste to a minimum was destroyed to give place to a highly destructive model where lowest cost, hight profit margins and speed of production is absolute.

In this process, thousands, if not millions, of landrace animals, along with heirloom seed varieties, went extinct and were lost. Petroleum products and by-products entered the daily life, from food, to clothing, to essentially anything imaginable. Not because those were better but because it was cheaper and protected interests.

Knowing this and still leaning heavily on an animal protein based diet with no concern for its toll on our collective ecosystem and the suffering it creates is nothing short of regrettable.

No

Meat is cheap. Artificially cheap but still. Processed foods cheaper; with meat in it, even more.

Many people throughout the world do not have access to the means to have a fully exclusive or at least heavily based vegetable diet, either because of the environment they live in or simply because they lack the means to afford it. Many people in developing countries still depend on cattle to provide food and raw materials, if not on hunting, trapping and fishing. Even more people, in rich, developed countries, don’t have the money to afford a proper diet, even less a vegetable based one.

These people are as worthy of living as any other. It can not be taken against them wanting to survive.

Maybe

Some people aren’t aware how much their personal decision can have a meaningful impact.

Others don’t have the time or hability to extract from vegetables meals that can truly satisfy them and don’t want to resort to ultraprocessed foods. Others are simply too deep into a cultural mindset that blocks them from experimenting.

It is just another type of barrier. There is a degree of lack of interest and effort in this stage but we can’t (shouldn’t) hold against people their personal circumstances, which adds poorly when it comes to changing minds, habits and cultures.

Take your pick.

As I read the thread again I was on the verge of thinking I was thinking about kitchen paper towels.

I have to insist on my original stance. The zig-zag paper towels commonly found in public bathrooms, where I live, almost melt when in contact with water. I buy them to my own house, to use as tissues, as the paper is soft enough for such use. I use them in my workplace. I find them at cafes, supermarkets and shopping centers. Every single time, so fragile it requires several towels for one to dry their hands and it makes no difference how much you ball it up, as the paper starts to fray and dissolve has it soaks.

I do not doubt you but the nearly indestructible paper towels were a thing some ten years ago, here, not anymore.

Ah, the details. I understand. If you have a yard, use it to water the plants. Flowers like the organically enriched water.

Don’t. That grease sticks to the pipes inner walls. It builds up a crust that has the capacity to trap other things in it.

Pee, poo, paper (toilet).

Put it into the toilet flush tank and you save a few liters for the next sit at the White Throne.

Unless the paper towels are of a reinforced type of paper, usually, every paper present at a bathroom is water soluble.

Please, don’t. Those have the power of sticking to everywhere and anything.

I don’t know where you are talking from but in my country that falls under false advertising and is punishable with hefty fines, especially because cloggings of sewer systems by such products are charged to the origin, which is becoming easier to do. The dumbest person on the land would start thinking if they got charged for a sewer clean-up more than once.

I do not advise it. Dump the liquid in your kitchen sink and the solids into your bin.

Good for you! I wish I was that fortunate.

There are wet wipes specifically made to be flushable and safe for such end, being isent of plastic, but most people think baby wipes are the same. Which they are not.

Free tip: every now and then, dump some bleach down your drains. It dissolves hair and the fat from soaps and creams.

Poo, pee and paper, if you insist.

The two languages split and diverged into the forms they currently have due to the people living in the territories.

Portugal developed a more nasal and closed speech, where vowels are commonly swallowed or nasal, closer to celtic speech roots, while spanish maintaned its more open speech structure, with every vowel clearly marked.

It’s easy for a portuguese to follow spanish and brazillian while the opposite is often not. The european portuguese is denser, more compact and even faster for the majority of time. By comparison, spanish and brazilian are slower paced and open.

Giraffes are often recorded killing and maiming lions. Those orange checkered XL horses are dangerous. It should be clue the food they eat and how extreme their biology is.

That is Portugal; those are our license plates. But the place felt awfully familiar to me.

Oi, censura a matrícula do carro que está no canto superior direito da foto; vê-se perfeitamente.

p.s. as duas matrículas dos carros que aparecem nas imagens são legíveis; respeito à privacidade, por favor.

O imbecil que estacionou aí merece uma multa.

E onde é isto? Parece familiar.

I understand. Thank you for the clarification.

And, not to deter you from your goal, you have a lot to pick from.

There is a lot of background from which you can pick and build from but what would be the end result you are envisioning? I can tell I got to know a particular “tradition” where no rituals exist; initiates undergo a sort of tutelage under more experienced individuals but at some point it is supposed for each individual to set out their own path. No dogma, no saints, demons or higher powers; they just take the universe as a power source and it is the people tapping into it that can use it for “good” or “bad” endings.

The wiccans I got to know were essentially neo pagans, drawing from a favourite personal pantheon and ancient culture. I knew a Neo-aegiptyian priestess, a couple of neo-druids, a neo-norse shaman, one new age witch and one neo-meso american priest. Each just associated with an ancient culture they most closely identified with and delved into it. I watched magic circle drawing, offerings of food and items to gods and even assisted in a ritual of personal sacrifice, through fasting, sweating and intense physical exertion.

But I sense this is not what you expect as information. Feel free to pose more specific questions.