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So what does that say about all those animals wearing $400 designer outfits and being toted around in $1,500 Gucci handbags by "people" wearing cosmetics made from animals and having more silicon than the San Fransisco bay area?
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You know, I would not be totally unwilling to sign up for that all-meat diet myself. (Discounting the fact that I am quite likely to die horribly as my brain is eaten from the inside out now.) However, I love how extremely angry and defensive dedicated omnivores get when someone expresses a simple dining preference. "What? No meat?! HOW DARE YOU! I WILL EAT YOU AND ARRGHGHGH!!!!!!!!" I mean, come on, it's more for the rest of, guys.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: You're seriously suggesting that buying a leather jacket rather than a big trenchcoat is really going to make even the slightest difference, at all?
Well obviously it ain't going to change the world. OTOH if you make that small sacrifice this time because your conscience is bothering you, then perhaps you might be inclined to make a more serious one sacrifice the future and opt for PVC or Gortex� or whatever it is the vegan kids are wearing these days.
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: So, once again, I ask: Why don't you eat animals? Because if it's because of the cruelty aspect, then I'm having a bit of trouble taking you seriously.
Well if you are seriously asking why I am a vegetarian, I can tell you that it is for a number of reasons. Namely health, environmental, spiritual and, yes, moral concerns. Do I need to be a zealot for you to take me seriously? Does that ever work? More importantly would my being a zealousness help you take the concept itself more seriously? I have my beliefs and I choose to do what I feel I am able. I lack the discipline to follow the vegan path, and frankly I'm tired of plastic shoes tearing themselves to shreds (rancid, awful shreds) in a couple weeks. I am weak. I am a hipocrite. I do what I can.
Just so we're clear. This isn't a full time thing for me. Vegetarianism is not my defining aspect. And importantly, I'm not trying to tell you how you ought to live your life. It isn't my place and I happen to know it wouldn't do any good. It's not pleasant to think about. There are a lot of creatures that we put through a great deal of misery for our convenience. Visit an abatoire if you don't believe me. You don't have to have any reaction to this information at all. I just feel (as does PETA) that people ought to know where hamburgers and hot-wings and leather trenches and fur coats come from. Maybe you have no reaction to this information, maybe you do, but if you don't know the whole story how can you make an informed decision?
Also I am sorry I thought you were gay when I first came to the board.
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When in any moral doubt, I just listen to Monster Magnet for guidence.
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Jason's sig. is almost right, he just needs to learn to hate everything....
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Years before I met her, my wife was vegetarian. Something to do with being served horse while on a school trip to the Soviet Union. She packed it in after a couple of years though, missed bacon sandwiches too much. 8)
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So she wont eat a lean animal like Horse, but she'll eat a pig?
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That reminds me of the folly in thinking that human breastmilk feels 'icky' to drink but the juices from a 500-pound, ammonia-stinking, regurgitating farm animal doesn't. Aah, the human mind.
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Or not drink any milk at all. The concept is certainly disgusting enough.
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How exactly does one milk a soy bean anyway?
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