Vegetarians

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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    DIESELDOG wrote:
    reformedfatty wrote:
    I'm a vegetarian, the most common phrase I hear in regard to it is :

    "But you don't look like a vegetarian"

    Maybe I should get a bell :)

    Nah, you don't need one, those that will be trawling your street shouting "Bring out your dead" have one loud enough. :lol:

    Love n hugs

    DD

    never had anything other than pure animal in my mouth

    I don't think semen is technically an animal.
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  • straas
    straas Posts: 338
    I hate fussy eaters, one of my mates claims to not like nuts - but whenever he comes over I slip them into his meal to teach him a lesson.

    He goes way overboard and starts having a fit, what a little sissy. Tried to make me call the ambulance last time.

    Haven't seen him in a while now I think about it...
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    straas wrote:
    I hate fussy eaters, one of my mates claims to not like nuts - but whenever he comes over I slip them into his meal to teach him a lesson.

    He goes way overboard and starts having a fit, what a little sissy. Tried to make me call the ambulance last time.

    Haven't seen him in a while now I think about it...

    My wife is the same. She "doesn't like beef". We were at a friends house for dinner a few weeks ago, and they made potatos stuffed with beef. She ate about 5 large pieces and said they were extremely tasty, and scarfed everything down. After those 5 pieces were done, she asked what they were stuffed with, and when found out they were beef, she went crazy. I said you obviously like beef, otherwise you wouldn't have eaten them in the first place.
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  • One Man And His Bike
    One Man And His Bike Posts: 661
    MattC59 wrote:
    DIESELDOG wrote:
    reformedfatty wrote:
    I'm a vegetarian, the most common phrase I hear in regard to it is :

    "But you don't look like a vegetarian"

    Maybe I should get a bell :)

    Nah, you don't need one, those that will be trawling your street shouting "Bring out your dead" have one loud enough. :lol:

    Love n hugs

    DD

    never had anything other than pure animal in my mouth

    you always manage to raise the tone :wink:
    That's not all she manages to raise with that ability...
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  • kieranb
    kieranb Posts: 1,674
    woodnut wrote:
    I'm a (non militant) veggie and it always amazes me how many meat eaters feel they have to try and draw me into an argument.


    Like this thread really.


    I'm not falling for it.

    I think.

    Who knows, maybe the veggies at fault were just winding up the OP? Seems a ripe target. Can be great fun given the right circumstances.
  • DIESELDOG
    DIESELDOG Posts: 2,087
    Aggieboy wrote:
    DIESELDOG wrote:
    reformedfatty wrote:
    I'm a vegetarian, the most common phrase I hear in regard to it is :

    "But you don't look like a vegetarian"

    Maybe I should get a bell :)

    Nah, you don't need one, those that will be trawling your street shouting "Bring out your dead" have one loud enough. :lol:

    Love n hugs

    DD

    never had anything other than pure animal in my mouth

    I don't think semen is technically an animal.

    A bit premature with that one Aggie...

    Love n hugs

    DD
    Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

    www.onemanandhisbike.co.uk
  • lvquestpaddler
    lvquestpaddler Posts: 416
    so as you can see bacteria are not part of the animal kingdom

    Still living things though, regardless of what system of classification we've assigned to them as simultaneous rulers and destroyers of the planet. What is the cutoff? anthropomorphically furry and cute? legs and a head? visible to the naked eye?
    vegans do eat living things, what are plants after all?

    Boring side dishes to a 12oz Rib eye.... :lol:

    So if vegans don't want to use any product that has death linked to it, how do they really get by? (I'm serious at this point actually). If "natural" products are a no-no(leather etc), then any synthetic products must surely be as abhorrent to them, given that many products are oil derived, and oil exploration and extraction is notoriously damaging to not only life(think BP's last balls up, Exxon Valdez etc) but the environment too.
    They must have flintstone bikes.....
  • woodnut
    woodnut Posts: 562
    lvquestpaddler wrote:
    so as you can see bacteria are not part of the animal kingdom

    Still living things though, regardless of what system of classification we've assigned to them as simultaneous rulers and destroyers of the planet. What is the cutoff? anthropomorphically furry and cute? legs and a head? visible to the naked eye?
    vegans do eat living things, what are plants after all?

    Boring side dishes to a 12oz Rib eye.... :lol:

    So if vegans don't want to use any product that has death linked to it, how do they really get by? (I'm serious at this point actually). If "natural" products are a no-no(leather etc), then any synthetic products must surely be as abhorrent to them, given that many products are oil derived, and oil exploration and extraction is notoriously damaging to not only life(think BP's last balls up, Exxon Valdez etc) but the environment too.
    They must have flintstone bikes.....

    If you follow your argument through though, it's saying unless you can be completely sure that you are ethically pure , don't make any attempt to do better.

    In which case why not kill babies and eat them?

    My aim is always, "do what you can"
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  • lvquestpaddler
    lvquestpaddler Posts: 416
    What I'm more getting at is that life and death are all around us, all the time, in our very existence we cannot escape it- nobody can be ethically pure can they? I'm not advocating killing anything (babies FFS?!) because of this fact, just I don't know why a line can be drawn between what we can see and want to look after/protect and what exists beyond the human eye that concerns no-one.
    Everyone wants to save the whales but what about the plankton?
    Death is part of our existence and to try and distance yourself from that fact is a crock of bull.....
    (Factory farming methods(dairy/meat/aquaculture) do suck though, I'll definitely concede that and anyone who won't touch those products for whatever reason well, that's fine by me, consumer choice etc)
  • woodnut
    woodnut Posts: 562
    lvquestpaddler wrote:
    What I'm more getting at is that life and death are all around us, all the time, in our very existence we cannot escape it- nobody can be ethically pure can they? I'm not advocating killing anything (babies FFS?!) because of this fact, just I don't know why a line can be drawn between what we can see and want to look after/protect and what exists beyond the human eye that concerns no-one.
    Everyone wants to save the whales but what about the plankton?
    Death is part of our existence and to try and distance yourself from that fact is a crock of bull.....
    (Factory farming methods(dairy/meat/aquaculture) do suck though, I'll definitely concede that and anyone who won't touch those products for whatever reason well, that's fine by me, consumer choice etc)
    I'm not in massive disagreement with any of this, except, if you see a whale being butchered it is very clear it's suffering and it is within our gift as an advanced species that has other options to DO something. I can't do anything about the whale eating plankton. (this of course ignores all the utilitarian & scientific arguments about the likelihood of plankton having any form of conciousness)
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  • lvquestpaddler
    lvquestpaddler Posts: 416
    None that we know of !!!! :wink:

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