Ignorance

The word ignorance means a lack of knowledge.

It does not initially mean the person is stupid.

I am for example ignorant of the Russian language.
This simply means I've not learnt it.
It does not mean I'm stupid, and if I decided to gain knowledge of Russian, then I would no longer be ignorant.

Ignorance however can easily become stupidity.

For example pescetarians.

If it is just a diet where you believe that not eating meat but eating fish is better for your health, then you are simply someone who doesn't eat meat but does eat fish for what ever reason.

If you label yourself as a pescetarian for any other reason, such as animal welfare then you are imo an idiot.

Pescetarianism, or pesco-vegetarianism is an ism.

It means you follow a belief system. An ideology.

What ideology can that be?
The one where you think a fish has less right to life than a chicken.
So you won't eat a chicken but you will eat a fish. 
What about really big fish such as tuna or shark?
These animals are at the top of their respective food chains.

You'd eat a shark but not a dolphin, because the dolphin is a mammal?

 Food for thought.

Moving on to the animal lover who will keep a cat as a cared for member of their family, but happily sit down at breakfast to bacon.

This is ignorance possibly. 
But once the person is given information explaining that an animal is kept in appalling conditions, tortured throughout it's short life, then brutally murdered, but they are still happy to eat a bacon sandwich then they have taken a step beyond ignorance.

As stated: ignorance is a lack of knowledge.

Once a person has the knowledge but doesn't act on it, then they must be something else.

I know that killing people, beating up women and having sex with children is wrong, therefore I don't do it.

I also know that someone killing a pig/cow/sheep by sticking a 10" steel bolt through it's head, or stringing it up by a hind leg and cutting it's throat so I can enjoy a bacon sarnie is wrong. So I don't do it.

If a person has the ability to see that the first set of actions is wrong, but unable to understand that the second set is just as wrong, then they must have something mentally wrong with them.
Or they could just simply be stupid.

Harsh maybe, but as I said recently to someone when they mentioned that everyone enjoys a bacon butty;  "I bet the pig doesn't".

I used to enjoy a bacon sandwich as much as the next man, but once I sat and thought about exactly what the cost of that bacon is, I was no longer ignorant. I had the knowledge to see that a life is taken in a horribly cruel way just to satisfy my desire for bacon.


Then there is the ex-vegetarian.

These creatures are the strangest of the lot.

An ethical vegetarian who has spent years proclaiming that "meat means murder", can change their mind and start eating meat.

So what happened?

Have they decided that meat no longer means murder?

Do they no longer care about the welfare of the animals?

Do they now believe that after years of following their beliefs, that they had been mistaken and that it is morally and ethically acceptable to kill an animal and eats its body parts?

Or have they been convinced by a third party that their convictions are wrong, that the moral standards by which they lived their lives are immoral?


I know an ex long term vegetarian, who was once very vocal about animal rights, the morality of not eating flesh and the whole "meat means murder" philosophy, but has now gone to the opposite extreme and lives on a ketogenic diet, where they eat over 70% of their calories from animal fat, 25% from meat and a few % from carbohydrates.

What can have happened in their minds to make them change so much?

This is possibly like people who turn away from their birth religion, but it is also somewhat different.
Religion is based on myth, legend and the belief in a possible afterlife.

The ideology of vegetarianism or veganism is normally based on the knowledge that eating meat causes unnecessary suffering to other living creatures.

To no longer follow a religion to to cast away superstition and unproven belief, hence it is called faith, aka belief without evidence.

To no longer follow a vegan/vegetarian ideology is to cast away known fact, and the values and principles you once lived by.



As a matter of interest, here is a link to an article about how a high fat diet is supposedly the best diet for weight loss.
http://sciencedrivennutrition.com/truth-high-fat-diets/

My humble opinion is that if you eat vast amount of animal fat, you will be a fat person.
You will also be increasing your chances of liver disease, stomach and bowel cancer, plus a whole manner of heart related conditions.

All that aside, eating huge quantities of animal fats means that you are party to the slaughter of large numbers of sentient beings, just so you can follow another "fad" diet that doesn't work.

There is a formula that sums up the whole concept of weight loss:

If calories consumed are greater than calories burned then you wlll gain weight.

If calories burned are greater than calories consumed, than you will lose weight.


Killing lots of animals and eating their fatty body parts will not make a fat person thin.
Eating fruit and partaking in regular exercise will.

These fad diets are just another indication of ignorant people claiming things that are simply not true.

A weird and wonderful person once said to me:

"Half the people you walk past in the street are already dead, they are just to stupid to realise it."