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Originally posted by Mr Mephisto
That's got to be the most stupid comment I've ever seen posted on this board.
Sheesh...
Mr Mephisto
PS - For the record, I'm not a vegetarian. I love my meat (hehe).
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Actually no...it's not. Not if you read the rest of what I was saying. But you aren't that type of person are you?
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Originally posted by Peutetre
I'm glad to see so many people have such 'wonderful' opinions of vegetarians. I am a vegetarian. I don't eat meat. I don't call meat eaters ignorant, or criticize them for eating meat. It blows my mind that so many people think it is okay to be so rude about what is essentially an eating habit. I don't eat meat... get over it! As for the 'carrots can hurt too' theory, which I have heard so many times, I can only say that I choose to eat a vegetarian diet without worrying so much about the vegetables life, as you eat meat without worrying about the animals life. No one is any better than anyone else when it comes to food... we all need it to live.
About the book Fast Food Nation (which interestingly enough has nothing to do with vegetarians and the author is not a vegetarian and claims to eat about as much fast food as anyone else in this country), I thought it was a very interesting view of the meat packing industry, fast food, and just the general overview of life in america. I liked how it wasn't skewed by a prejudice vegetarian view (someone who already thinks the meat packers are wrong). I got a lot out of the book and it made me think about the quality of food I eat, but if I wasn't already a vegetarian I don't think it would have made me stop eating meat. Then again, that wasn't the point of the book....
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Hey if you aren't one of those vegetarians who considers it horrible to "kill a living creature" aka meat like some are that try to go into bouts of self-righteous babble about how I'm wrong for eating meat than those comments weren't directed to you. Most of the vegetarians I've met are on that sort of mind-set. If you eat it because of dietary reasons (I believe it is much healthier) or because you feel a great deal of remorse for the animals slaughtered than good for you. I commend that. But don't be one of those people who think farming and eating vegetables all the time hasn't directly affected the animal population more than just buying a slab a meat shipped over to a meat market from a slaughter house. The only difference is a preference.
Asta!!