why are vegetarians so angry?

GenuineRisk · #1 06-03-2007, 06:02 PM

I suspect your girlfriend's son's vehemence is connected with being a teenager.

Though, remember, for many life-long vegetarians it's a moral issue, right up there with abortion for pro-lifers, gun ownership for NRA members, blocking the borders for anti-immigrationists, etc., etc. It's all a matter of perspective.

Look at the bright side; at least he's not posting your home address and phone number on radical vegetarian websites, inviting radical vegetarians to shoot you in your own kitchen. See? It could be so much worse. All he did was hassle you at a BBQ.

I like tofu, but then I'm blessed with an Asian stepmom who knows how to cook it properly.

hoovesupsideyourhead · #2 06-03-2007, 07:20 PM

they are not getting enough meat....

#3 06-03-2007, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

they are not getting enough meat....

and they have good bowel movements, just too many.

You know how it goes, getting ready to bite into a massive head of Iceberg Lettuce, and the moment is lost when the sphincter sends it's time to dance message.

MISTERGEE · #4 06-03-2007, 10:48 PM

i once heard a meateater tell me when animals stop eating eachother i will stop eating them

ninetoone · #5 06-03-2007, 10:54 PM

If we weren't supposed to eat them, they wouldn't be made out of meat.

Antitrust32 · #6 06-04-2007, 07:16 AM

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and they wouldn't taste so damn good.

speaking of, I had a delicious skirt steak last night. I love being a carnivore.

SentToStud · #7 06-04-2007, 07:27 AM

Are lamb chops and pastrami vegetables?

#8 06-04-2007, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Antitrust32

speaking of, I had a delicious skirt steak last night. I love being a carnivore.

You sir, are an omnivore.

Unless you shun the vegetable kingdom. Which would be extraordinarily difficult to avoid. Anything made with wheat... cake, doughnuts, etc... We must have our producers as well. They sneak soy (from beans) in all the time in meat products that are reconstituted.

So be proud to be so catholic in your tastes. I am. I am proud of my canines. I equally proud of my molars. I am proud of my omnivorous digestive tract.

Payson Dave · #9 06-04-2007, 10:28 AM

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speaking of, I had a delicious skirt steak last night. I love being a carnivore.

Was it pink in the middle???

that would be medium rare

GenuineRisk · #10 06-04-2007, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by pgardn

and they have good bowel movements, just too many.

You know how it goes, getting ready to bite into a massive head of Iceberg Lettuce, and the moment is lost when the sphincter sends it's time to dance message.

Iceberg lettuce? Yeesh. No nutritional value and no taste to boot. I call it "crunchy water."

I was a strict vegetarian for several years, but for environmental, not moral, reasons. I like meat occasionally (it is tasty, after all), if it's humanely raised (factory farms are unbelievably cruel and as far as I'm concerned, if I'm spending money on factory farm meat, I'm endorsing animal cruelty. That's just me, though. They're also environmental disasters, while small farms are valuable habitat for lots of animals, including many threatened species- support your small family farms!). I'm glad for the time I spent as a strict vegetarian, though, because it kept me thin and kept me healthy and I learned to love veggies.

I tell ya, though, I take my hat off to vegans. That's serious dietary discipline. I think if I had to give up cheese and milk the sunshine would go out of my life.

GPK · #11 06-04-2007, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Iceberg lettuce? Yeesh. No nutritional value and no taste to boot. I call it "crunchy water."

I was a strict vegetarian for several years, but for environmental, not moral, reasons. I like meat occasionally (it is tasty, after all), if it's humanely raised (factory farms are unbelievably cruel and as far as I'm concerned, if I'm spending money on factory farm meat, I'm endorsing animal cruelty. That's just me, though. They're also environmental disasters, while small farms are valuable habitat for lots of animals, including many threatened species- support your small family farms!). I'm glad for the time I spent as a strict vegetarian, though, because it kept me thin and kept me healthy and I learned to love veggies.

I tell ya, though, I take my hat off to vegans. That's serious dietary discipline. I think if I had to give up cheese and milk the sunshine would go out of my life.

well....that is a bit heartbreaking....all this time I thought I was the sunshine of your life.

The cruelty of it all....

GenuineRisk · #12 06-04-2007, 07:27 PM

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well....that is a bit heartbreaking....all this time I thought I was the sunshine of your life.

The cruelty of it all....

No, sweetie; you're the:

GPK · #13 06-04-2007, 07:46 PM

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No, sweetie; you're the:

see...I knew you loved me...

#14 06-04-2007, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Iceberg lettuce? Yeesh. No nutritional value and no taste to boot. I call it "crunchy water."

Thats exactly what it is. Does not even have a lot of fiber, thus my futile attempt at a bad joke. In some cases the nasty E.Coli get into it, and that creates a great time with the big white phone in the bathroom.

The Indomitable DrugS · #15 06-05-2007, 02:00 AM

I was a vegetarian once....I lasted about three and a half weeks.....eventually all the veggy patty subs from Subway started turning my poop all kind of different colors...and that was it for me.

GenuineRisk · #16 06-05-2007, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I was a vegetarian once....I lasted about three and a half weeks.....eventually all the veggy patty subs from Subway started turning my poop all kind of different colors...and that was it for me.

Blech; those veggie patties from Subway taste like a*s. I think they're a conspiracy to keep people ordering the meatball subs.

Cajungator26 · #17 06-05-2007, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Iceberg lettuce? Yeesh. No nutritional value and no taste to boot. I call it "crunchy water."

I was a strict vegetarian for several years, but for environmental, not moral, reasons. I like meat occasionally (it is tasty, after all), if it's humanely raised (factory farms are unbelievably cruel and as far as I'm concerned, if I'm spending money on factory farm meat, I'm endorsing animal cruelty. That's just me, though. They're also environmental disasters, while small farms are valuable habitat for lots of animals, including many threatened species- support your small family farms!). I'm glad for the time I spent as a strict vegetarian, though, because it kept me thin and kept me healthy and I learned to love veggies.

I tell ya, though, I take my hat off to vegans. That's serious dietary discipline. I think if I had to give up cheese and milk the sunshine would go out of my life.

Genuine,

Where can you find humanely raised meat? I'm thinking about becoming a vegetarian again, but my blood type (A negative) has a hard time doing the vegetarian thing without becoming anemic. I used to get sick and weak very easily (even eating the things I was supposed to.)