Is it the pallid complexion and limpid motor function? Or the joyless, self-denying, palate-crucifying lifestyle? Or the fact that being a vegetarian - itself an utterly inexplicable form of deviancy in my view - simply wasn't enough, they had to go an get all sniffy about using products derived from living animals too?
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Nice Lady Doctor kindly sent me the following excerpt written by a vegan on (where else) the Guardian website:
"When I eat with one of my carnivore friends, I usually find myself helplessly distracted by their food ...
I stare because I'm fascinated by the fact that these intelligent, thinking people actually eat the flesh of dead animals. This seems to be the point at which their ethics vanish ... when it comes to the moral and environmental issue of meat consumption, their desire for food they enjoy the taste of, the sensual pleasure it gives them, overrides any ethical considerations ... I could never tell them that their lack of conscience about what they eat creates a barrier between us. Or that it means we will never be quite as close as we could be."
I know. Reading that made me want to gouge out my own eyeballs too. But where to start? OK, first up, your friends aren't carnivores, they are omnivores, dipshit. Like the omnivore, the vegan merely needs to open their own mouths and examine their dentition - their omnivore dentition - to understand that physiologically Mother Nature has stipulated that we do best when we eat flora and fauna.
The second point is closely tied to the prim preference for 'natural' foods, a disposition only permitted by complete ignorance about where your food actually comes from. Selective breeding is a form of genetic modification that we've practised for centuries, developing cereals, vegetables, fruit and animals that simply would not exist, but for the fact that we made them the way they are so we can eat them. It doesn't matter how bloody organic your meat and two veg are; evolution did not provide us with orange carrots, bonsai broccoli or Aberdeen Angus steak.
So, by milking a cow you are not stealing its milk. Dairy cows explode if you don't milk them because we made them that way. If you don't steal their milk, they die. Similarly, eggs laid by mother hens do not hatch into little chicks if nasty people don't half-inch the little blighters before they've had a chance. Eggs only hatch if they are fertilised, and producing hens don't get fertilised.
Finally, veganism is as pure an expression as can be imagined of the sort of Western liberal decadence that most vegans claim to despise. Poor people, generally speaking, aren't vegans (unless they've been got at by some equally wrong-headed faith system). They aren't vegans because they don't have the luxury of making arbitrary and frankly quite bonkers decisions about their diet. They eat what they can, and if that includes a bit of meat, egg and milk occasionally, all the better. And the reason that so many people around the world can actually enjoy these 'unethical' foodstuffs is down to the aforementioned selective breeding jiggery pokery that tiresome vegans presumably think shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Vegans, by and large, are protected from the consequences of self-inflicted injury that is veganism by adequate health provision, breadth of consumer choice and the wide availability of dietary supplements, all things created by people who didn't piss about picking the prawns out of their salad and sat down to a proper meal three times a day.
That's not to say that I don't acknowledge vegans have the right to make their own choices about the food they eat. But by the same token, I have every right to despise them for it.
Another ignorant being - thank goodness it's just YOUR opinion!
ReplyDeleteOk. Open your mouth and ACTUALLY examine your teeth, then examine the way your jaw moves. THEN, examine the teeth of a cat and a dog, a carnivore, and an omnivore. Only herbivores have full function of the jaw movement, they are not limited in the ways it moves, which is why they can chew up and down, side to side, and forward and back.
ReplyDeleteJust cause humans CAN eat meat, does not make it our natural diet, just cause we can "slightly" digest meat does not mean we were built to. Seeking milk from another species is not at all natural, the only reason they "explode", is cause, where did the calf that would NATURALLY drink from it's mother go, oh yes, veal farms. Which don't even get me started on those.
When you grow hooves, walk on all fours, and moo, then go for it, drink some cow milk.
When you grow claws and fangs to take down a cow, or an elk, or a deer, then go for it.
When you develop the ability to eat RAW flesh, and not become horribly sick with parasites and the virus' that are swimming in that piece of flesh, then you can call yourself a natural omnivore.
Look at our closest relatives, whose diet is generally 99% vegan. The other 1%(rarely up to 5%) is termites. Chimpanzees have been known to kill and eat meat(generally males), who will only share with a girl if she begs and lets him have sex with her. They also cannibalize, rape, or infanticide, so if them eating that SMALL amount of meat(raw btw) justifies the mass amount of meat humans eat on a daily basis, then I guess it's alright to rape, and then kill, and eat babies too.
You need to reevaluate yourself before trying to talk down about someone who has their head in order.
Eating meat isn't the only issue, the factory farms are killing the planet, causing 1000's of species to go extinct, and causing any towns near them to suffer from illness(specially to infants) caused by the pollution it lets out. Meat isn't just killing that animal you so "desperately" want to eat. It's killing thousands of fish in the rivers, polluting the skies and killing the humans that work or live around the factory farms, or not even that, the millions of starving people in and out of the US cause of the US GREED. Meat production is killing the land and eating our already depleting resources faster then we can find a new resource.
So continue being ignorant.
Ha ha ha! Brilliant.
ReplyDelete1. Humans have eaten meat since they evolved. There's plenty of evidence. The decision not to eat meat is a relatively modern trend. Note the words *decision* and *trend*.
2. We are omnivores, meaning we eat meat and veg. This would entirely justify the dentition and range of jaw movement we have. I think you may have the word omnivore confused with word carnivore. Must try harder.
3. Your comments about rape and infanticide are just so devoid of logic they don't merit further comment. Other than to say that you're quite typical for a vegan.
4. If you can name me one species that's been made extinct because of factory farming, I'll buy you a steak.
5. I know that hating Americans is a mantra with you people, but that's a tenuous segway by anyone's standards. You might as well have put 'P.S. And Americans are evil, innit'. Is casual racism still racism?
6. Less than 2% of the planet's population is classified as starving by the UN. For the first time in history the number of people suffering from illnesses caused by too much food outstrips those suffering from too little. All of this abundance, which benefits everyone, is the product of wicked scientists and malevolent farmers developing and refining, tweaking and experimenting in order to increase yields and feed more people, and nothing to do with vapid, over-indulged idealists who believe you can feed a planet on mushroom protein and wishful thinking.
mushroom protein ---isnt that sperm?
ReplyDelete"Chimpanzees have been known to kill and eat meat(generally males), who will only share with a girl if she begs and lets him have sex with her." - and the problem is what with this statement? that chimp worked hard for his meat and now the girl should work his meat hard!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I, personally, have nothing against vegans, but only if they get on your nerves by saying you are a horrible person whenever you eat something not under THEIR dietary preferences, acting like they are some kind of heroic crusader saving humanity from a bloody, omnivorous doom. Shut up angry nagging people. We like meat. Deal with it. Also, in my opinion, ripping carrots out of the ground and things like that are just as bad as killing animals. So you think you're better than us? Eating baby carrots involves skinning a bunch of plants alive. I'd rather eat meat. At least it's dead before we start ripping it open.
ReplyDeleteAngry nagging people, this entire article is the author's opinion. Don't get worked up about it and calling the author a heathen, smashing holes in the computer screen, or doing whatever it is angry nagging people do. It's the same as exiling someone from the city because they like the color yellow and you don't. So quit it. Thank you, and goodbye.