Which side is more disdainful of the other: Vegetarians or non-vegetarians?

Monday 23rd February, 02:00 AM JST

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taiko666 at 11:46 AM JST - 27th February

I think in future I'm going to call a desperate argument based on nothing 'the Screaming Lettuce Argument'.

I like it! Mind if I borrow that?

It does trip off the tongue nicely doesn't it?

I think we have to thank OssanAmerica for adding to the veggie lexicon.
Ranger_Miffy at 06:47 PM JST - 27th February

I was a die-hard vegetarian for some seven years, and it really broaden my perspective on how to eat. I never felt like I suffered. However, it turns out my body type, mostly Norwegian, really has to have some form of meat, so I backed out of it to a degree. During those seven years, I grew really weary of people being agast at my chosen cuisine.

Yes, I'm the one who chose non-vegetarians as the most distainful.
Ranger_Miffy at 06:50 PM JST - 27th February

Oh, I forgot to add. I think the distain towards vegetarians is the casting of the "shadow" side of meat eaters. Those poor animals suffering terribly in their small cages and slaughterhouse brutal demises. I think this explains "kokuryu" neatly.
OssanAmerica at 10:32 PM JST - 27th February

I think we have to thank OssanAmerica for adding to the veggie lexicon.

Please send me 10 cents every time you use it. Thanks.
cleo at 12:30 AM JST - 28th February

This kind of belief is what has contributed to an increase in heretofore "human" type of illnesses among pet dogs.

It's true that pet dogs do suffer when they are 'treated' to the kind of delicacies humans enjoy - diets heavily biased towards refined sugars, additives, etc, and a surfeit of calories. But do please enlighten us as to what 'human' diseases are increasing among pet dogs as a result of a vegetarian diet. My dogs are perfectly healthy, and last year the elder one received an award for longevity, which I attribute in part to her diet.

They even eat screaming lettuces, and the dobie will do somersaults for a banana.

Moderator: Readers, please stay on topic. What dogs eat is irrelevant.
aikisako at 04:12 AM JST - 28th February

fish is my life, don't ask me for stop eating oishii.
cleo at 11:19 AM JST - 28th February

Moderator: Readers, please stay on topic. What dogs eat is irrelevant.

With all due respect, Moddie, I beg to differ. When Ossan is telling us that it's a vegetarian diet that is behind the rising incidence of cancer in pet dogs in Japan, it's the perfect vehicle for us veggies to show our disdain - which is what the thread is all about, n'est pas?

Moderator: I'm afraid not. The poll question has nothing to do with that. Besides, you've had the last word on the subject.
taiko666 at 02:14 PM JST - 28th February

aikisako: is anybody asking you to give up fish?

Nobody's asking you to do anything.

Why do you feel threatened by the fact that other people say they don't want to eat fish? It seems to be a typical irrational non-veggie reaction, and probably explains the poll result.
Bento at 06:44 PM JST - 28th February

only vegans count as true vegetarians..
Bento at 06:46 PM JST - 28th February

fish eaters are not "vegetarians"
cwhite at 07:39 PM JST - 28th February

must be a lot of vegetarians on this forum, love to know the ratio.
taiko666 at 08:47 PM JST - 28th February

fish eaters are not "vegetarians"

Of course. We all know that.
70x4060d at 06:08 PM JST - 1st March

The more vegetarians there are, the moar meat there is for me to eat. So I encourage it!
moonbeams at 08:27 PM JST - 1st March

I was a vegetarian for 8 years before I came to Japan.

I voted "non-vegetarians." There are militant vegans. But most vegetarians understand what it's like to be a non-vegetarian, because 99% of us made the choice to give up meat.

There would always be someone who felt threatened by this, as if vegetarians would take their meat away. I could never understand how insecure someone must be to fear that the vegetarian movement will change their diet.
jessssicaaa at 08:38 PM JST - 8th April

The more vegetarians there are, the moar meat there is for me to eat. So I encourage it!

yeee thats the spirit! ;P positive thinking ;D