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About caring more abut animals than people, I know vegetarians and vegans who ironically shop in a second-hand store chain based on slave labor. The chain, "UFF", collects donations of clothes from the citizens in UFF-boxes throughout the countries, supposedly under the claim of sending the clothes to third-world countries.
Now, UFF (an affiliate of the danish Tvind-sect) just collect the clothes, store them in warehouses, then the "volunteers" in the organization wash and repair the clothes, with collective penalties for bad productivity and failure to meet quotas. These clothes cost maybe a third of the money of an ordinary "second-hand" item because the organization doesn't spend any money processing it (the organization "volunteers" can't ask for money, it's a priviledge for them to work slave labor for the Leader), they just sell the clothes back in the same country they collected them, take all the money and send it to Denmark, to the mother organization.
Now, people I've talked to already know this but claim that, hey, this "cheap clothes" thing is too sweet to pass up! So much for ethics.
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(Not to start a flamewar, but does Bush have an "anti-abortion campaign"? That's not intended as a sarcastic question.)
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Actually, as I believe Lee mentioned a while back, Bush has been fairly surprising on the whole abortion issue. I know he came out and said that he's against late-term abortion, but that's hardly reason to vindicate him.
And our student paper caused me to take note on this. After reporting the above, it then mentioned that being pro-abortion is a "progressive POV" and "supported by almost every person in the west". Which was interesting editorialising, and just a teensy weensy bit of bollocks.
And regarding Nim's comments, if there's one thing that pisses me off more than a Vegetarian, it's a Vegetarian who wears leather. Seriously, how stupid are they?
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Ok, you got me there. I'm a Quorn eating vegetarian and I like my leather jacket, though I do freeze my bollocks off in it at this time of year. I also have leather furniture if you want to be really pissed off. Although technically it's vegans who have issues with leather, not vegetarians (unless one starts eating their jacket, of course.) I suppose it's all about varying degrees of hypocrisy.
I tell you what's really hypocritical when it comes to us veggies, it's those of us who eat fish. That may sound like a no-brainier but there are people who consider themselves vegetarian and yet tuck in to a piece of cod on a regular basis. Crazy.
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Well, the question I want to ask is...why do you not eat meat?
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Health reasons mainly, metabolism you see. Aside from that vegetarian mince actually tastes better than the real thing. However I do have a pretty low opinion of hunting for sport, I mean it's not very sporting is it? One fox against fifty trained hounds and half a dozen double-barrelled shotguns? The least they could do is give the fox a grenade or two.
quote: Originally posted by Reverend One fox against fifty trained hounds and half a dozen double-barrelled shotguns? The least they could do is give the fox a grenade or two.
Or a few WMD's
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Anthrax infected foxes trained to leap at hunters... It could work: it'd be much harder for a hunter to aim his gun wearing all that protective gear.
Wouldnt it be more fun to hunt the PETA member list? I call dibbs on Belindia Carlisle.
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But, someday, they will be able to. And they're more impressionable when they're young.
I'm not trying to argue the original point. I'm just saying that politicians' targeting children probably wouldn't be a wholly unproductive endeavor.
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But, someday, they will be able to. And they're more impressionable when they're young.
So by setting a good example and kicking any PETA member's ass that tries to approach your children, you're teaching them to protect their own children one day. Works for me.
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Or to be intolerant of other peoples' views.
I'm not defending PETA, they're obviously a bunch of raving loonies but they're still entitled to an opinion. No matter how narrow minded or twisted it may be.
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I have no obligation to respect a stupid opinion.
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