Thoughts on Vegetarians/vegans

[Sexual_Chocolate]

ive seen a chicken eat a rat

[Kochari]

^Woah, really?

I saw what you did, you equated killing animals with killing humans. Now go sit in the corner and think about what you're saying

Why are they different? I want an explanation, not just an assumption, please.

[Terpit]

^Woah, really?

I saw what you did, you equated killing animals with killing humans. Now go sit in the corner and think about what you're saying

Why are they different? I want an explanation, not just an assumption, please.

Read the whole thread, it's been discussed several times

[noam]

^Woah, really?

I saw what you did, you equated killing animals with killing humans. Now go sit in the corner and think about what you're saying

Why are they different? I want an explanation, not just an assumption, please.

if animals and humans are the same, surely when animals eat each other its morally wrong...

[Efrafa11]

>Vegan for 5 years
>Started eating meat a month ago
>Still think killing animals is wrong and bothers me
>But I wanna try new things in life.
>Can now experience a whole new side of cuisine.
>Also wanna finally gain weight.
>Hatred of vegan ex-whorefriend
>Going up to go catch me some fresh Colorado rainbow trout tomorrow and cook that
bastard in a campfire

[boomphat]

I used to work in a supermarket, the butcher showed me hundreds of maggots behind the freezer. I saw the box of rubbish that he made mince out of, after 3 days when it went green he cut those bits off, and made frozen burgers out of the rest. He didn't wash or throw away the ones he dropped on the floor! I used to eat a pork pie every day back then, he told me it was made from crushed pigs heads. If its not an identifiable chunk of meat, then its made out of crap. Its a business and it has to make a profit.
Thats what set me off, and I became increasingly vegetarian over the next 2 years. Cycling past the awful smell of the big Stanley Abattoir in Liverpool most days for a couple of years led to me becoming increasingly vegan.
I don't preach, you can all eat what you like. I just don't want to eat a corpse.

[Electric_Head]

if animals and humans are the same, surely when animals eat each other its morally wrong...

This is what it sounds like, when doves cry.

[LACE]

i could easily be a vegetarian if it wasn't for cheeseburgers.

[magma]

Magma's view on farming seems a little bit idyllic to be fair. Yeah, I do believe some people still farm the way you describe, with respect for animals that lead, as you said, 'luxurious albeit short' lives, but unfortunately this is not the case for most of the meat industry. The fact that it is 'industry' is very wrong in itself. I don't think I need to describe what conditions animals are kept in, there is enough footage and photos floating around. And that applies to meat, dairy, eggs...

Agree with a lot of this. I didn't really meant to imply that current farming was so idyllic, just that the concept of raising animals to kill them for meat isn't inherently "bad"... if farming's done correctly, it can create a decent existence for both animal and farmer. Obviously, as with most industries we allow the mighty dollar to get in the way of ethical practise.... from squeezing too many turkeys into a dark shed to razing thousands of acres of rainforest to provide grazing land... we definitely have to reform farming; meat should probably be a lot more expensive to discourage such intensive production/consumption.

Definitely didn't mean I support battery chicken farming or packing 500 lambs into a tiny truck for them to trample each other on their overnight journey to the abatoir though. Cruelty is still cruelty.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

^Woah, really?

The rat was already dead & the chicken was pecking at it.... so yea

[boomphat]

are chickens intelligent?
sheep are really stupid.
anyone know of an intelligent vegetable?

[boomphat]

trying to explain my diet to someone, I said "I don't eat anything with a face"
they replied "but potatoes have eyes"

[LACE]

are chickens intelligent?
sheep are really stupid.
anyone know of an intelligent vegetable?

corn is pretty intelligent..also cabbage. they have their own forms of communication to warn of a possible threat..

[noam]

are chickens intelligent?
sheep are really stupid.
anyone know of an intelligent vegetable?

corn is pretty intelligent

yeh man they put up scarecrows in their fields to stop themselves getting eaten

propper tellijant

[gwa]

are chickens intelligent?
sheep are really stupid.
anyone know of an intelligent vegetable?

corn is pretty intelligent..also cabbage. they have their own forms of communication to warn of a possible threat..

someone has obvs not seen the m night shangy shangy film

[LACE]

i know i know.. just typing that out had me giggling

[magma]

Aliens almost exclusively talk to corn instead of us when they visit.

[garethom]

are chickens intelligent?
sheep are really stupid.
anyone know of an intelligent vegetable?

corn is pretty intelligent

yeh man they put up scarecrows in their fields to stop themselves getting eaten

propper tellijant

[gwa]

they do though!

you not remember parsons link to the japanese scientist who did tests on flowers and shit and they responded to his wife

[noam]

Aliens almost exclusively talk to corn instead of us when they visit.

the talks often end in massacre