Monday May 28, 2012

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    GilaMonster

    taiko666,

    But in the 'real world', vegetarians just want to eat their meal without being interrogated / insulted along the lines I mentioned in an earlier post.

    That hasn't been my experience. While I've not known a lot of vegetarians, all but one tried to convert me away from meat without me passing any judgment on their dietary choice. If there are people who give vegetarians a hard time, they're just as wrong as these vegetarians I've run into.

    Your digestive tract is perfectly capable of processing slugs, so why aren't you a slug-eater?

    I'm not a slug-eater because I don't care to eat slugs or snails, just as vegetarians don't care to eat meat, for whatever reason they may have. My point is that we are designed, again by nature or design, to eat meat which points to the flaw in the argument that doing so is somehow immoral.

    a veggie eating with a roup of meat-eaters is almost certain to be 'questioned'- and then accused of 'damning' hyper-sensitive meat-eaters by simply answering those questions.

    I've got to wonder why? Were I in the position of the vegetarian, I'd respond to a question simply by saying, "I don't like meat." If questioned further, I'd ask, "Does it affect you in any way?"

    I suspect that these "hyper-sensitive meat-eaters" when asking why someone wouldn't eat meat, (which they no doubt enjoy very much,) are simply curious, and end up hearing about how immoral it is to eat meat. If this is the case, the defensiveness of the carnivores would be understandable.

    While I have known folks that will give vegetarians a hard time, (usually in jest, but occasionally just to get under their skin,) they are few and far between, (at least in my area.) Most, like me, don't care what others eat.

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

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    GilaMonster

    I guess I'm one of those "selfish barbaric" people who doesn't care for the pain and grief and horror of animals, (can anyone say, "anthropomorphism"?,) because, bluntly, I don't. I like meat.

    As for this argument that one should turn vegetarian if they care about every human being fed and there being enough to go around, this is a strawman argument. There's already more than enough to go around. Those who are starving live in areas where the political situation prevents food aid from getting to them, not a lack of food to be made available to them. That's a situation won't be changed by a change in diet.

    As for pollution and environmental degradation caused by the meat industry, I gotta wonder where all that wonderful fertilizer that helps us grow our crops in such abundance would come from without it?

    I do buy meat from the grocery store, but prefer meat from free range ranchers in the area, and since they're cattle roam free all year before being rounded up for the market and eat grass, which people can't eat, I guess I get a bit of a pass for THOSE cows I eat, right? (Although my preference is mainly a matter of personal preference for the taste, and has nothing to do with the morality of it all, so maybe not... LOL)

    C'mon, folks... This is a silly argument. The vegetarians on here are proving the point by passing judgement on the meat eaters as somehow immoral, though they do ignore the simple fact that our digestive systems are designed, either by nature or by design, to digest meat. I don't see the logic in damning other people for eating meat unless one is also going to damn other omnivores for the same thing.

    I don't care if you are a vegetarian or like your meat raw. Just leave me to my dietary choices in the same way that I leave you to yours.

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

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