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Everyone in this thread who has tried to piss of the vegetarian fails miserably for not yet mentioning the deliciousness of veal.
Everyone in this thread who has tried to piss of the vegetarian fails miserably for not yet mentioning the deliciousness of veal.
It was a good read. Thanks.
I actually recently became a vegetarian and I think it's fantastic. Not that I see anything wrong with eating meat. I think eating beef, pork, chicken and the likes is great too. But I decided to the vegetarian thing for a month to see how it went and I have since never gone back. Going on almost 4 months now.
That said..I don't think I'd ever consort with PETA. I know they have good intentions for the most part, and I'm against cruelty to animals, but as with everything, some of them are just too crazy for their own good. They turn people right off to whatever they have to say when they act like lunatics.
Again, the Funt is wise.
good point. Although even as much as I love animal flesh, veal is actually something I have some sort of odd moral opposition to, which explains all the tiny vaginas growing on my face.
Some of them? The whole organization is a bunch of nuts, from that Ingrid Newkirk on down.
I love veal. Understand completely the moral opposition and would prefer that those succulent little baby cows had a better living situation pre-slaughter, but will continue to eat them.
On the other hand, though, I should probably mention that I went out for sushi tonight for dinner and, since I don't like raw fish, had a 100% vegetarian meal that was absolutely delicious. These completely meatless tempura yam rolls that I brought home are pretty much rockin' my world.
I actually am not much of a meat eater- simply do not have the taste for it- but I support animal testing in medical research.
You don't like raw fish? WTF? Next thing you're going to tell me you don't like raw steak?
Waits for Baseline Bum to post again, the fantastic episode about PETA by Penn and Teller of Bull .
That episode makes your eyes want to bleed.
Hey before I went vegetarian that was a favorite thing of mine. Getting a small chunk of raw steak adding a dash of kosher salt and pepper and just eating it. It was so damn good.
My boss' husband is the right hand man to the guy that runs that circus. She made it seem like it was going to continue. She told me about those PETA idiots too.
Mikey, ain't it wonderfull also how no one will report how the kids will lose money or how that affects businesses?
I've always loved animals and have recently gone vegetarian, specifically to protest the treatment of animals in the slaughterhouses and on the "farms"... But PETA scares the out of me. They're fanatics, and fanatics are always dangerous. I'll have nothing to do with them, thank you.
True.
Now I love animals and I don't want to see them mistreated, but not all circuses are bad. I work with good kids and these kids have activities they do throughout the year and instead of asking for money, they prefer to work for it. Maybe I am a little biased but I just like to see these kids and others rewarded for their willingness to work.
They were talking up here about how hundreds of students came out to protest. We worked all three days of the circus and saw exactly 2 protesters Sunday morning.
I think they got offended when my nephew said in a loud whisper, "hey Uncle Mike, can we go out for bunny jerky afterwards?"
Oddly enough, we saw the same protesters after the performances at Taco Bell.
True, but remember that plants are not sentient. Photosynthesis comes naturally like breathing does for us, and I don't think we would be taken seriously if we credited ourselves as intelligent creatures because our bodies perform automatic functions. Also, contrary to what Timothy McVeigh said, plants do not feel pain. They do not have nervous systems.
Going vegetarian is also much greener than eating meat, even though it seems that we are removing some of the carbon sinks necessary to life. Remember that with most vegetables and fruits, you can remove the food and leave the plant intact. Supposedly, planting 300 trees is equivalent to erasing your entire life's carbon footprint!
Personally, my reasons for going vegetarian are:
It's greener
It's more cost effective
It's healthier
It's guilt-free. I would never eat a cat or dog, and I decided it was time to extend that courtesy to cows, chickens, pigs and the like.
Yeah I used to get fed up with this one girl I worked with. She supported Peta so I asked her if she ate meat or animal related products. She responded with "I try not to but I like cheese alot". I was like you dumb .They were talking up here about how hundreds of students came out to protest. We worked all three days of the circus and saw exactly 2 protesters Sunday morning.
I think they got offended when my nephew said in a loud whisper, "hey Uncle Mike, can we go out for bunny jerky afterwards?"
Oddly enough, we saw the same protesters after the performances at Taco Bell.
No but I am a Vaginatarian. Got clit?
Besides if we aren't supposed to eat meat then why does it taste so ing good?
Yes, BUT, the meat industry has changed the equation drastically. Essentially, animals are raised in their own , eating food that they themselves did not evolve to eat (god bless corn subsidies); and to compensate for it all, these sick animals are flooded with antibiotics.
I highly recommend the book The Omnivore's Dilemma. The author breaks down the American diet and follows the food chain from the corn fields to the feedlots to the dinner table. It's more fascinating than I would have ever thought.
Humans have evolved to the point where we excel at ing things up on a grand scale, and there's no reason to think the meat industry should be excluded from our reach.
Bon Appe .
I agree the meat industry is disgusting, and if PETA wasn't a religious cult they'd make rational arguments about changing it instead of getting on the mountain and preaching about veganism. Cutting meat out of the human diet is in no way a realistic option. The vast majority of us don't have a choice in the matter; we're hardwired to want meat just as much as we're hardwired to be social, to develop language, to have a sex drive, and so on.
and then fart like a LongshoremanLet me get this straight 8ft. You dont like the taste of T-bones steaks, pan seared mahi-mahi will romalade sauce or grilled lamb chops florentine, but will eat a big ass bowl of brussel sprouts and beets?
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