Vegetarians right or not?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2002-08-22 01:00pm

Graeme Dice wrote:We don't eat predators because their meat doesn't taste good.

We eat chickens.

(And yes they're predators. Haven't you ever seen the FOX special "When Chickens Attack"?)

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2002-08-22 01:35pm

USAF Ace wrote:
Graeme Dice wrote:We don't eat predators because their meat doesn't taste good.
We eat chickens.

(And yes they're predators. Haven't you ever seen the FOX special "When Chickens Attack"?)

They are omnivores, not carnivores.

starfury · Post by **starfury** » 2002-08-22 04:11pm

One of the funniest - in terms of public spectacle - event I ever witnessed from vegetarian zealots was while I was in university. A campus group organized some sort of lunch time event at the University Centre where most of the cafeterias/restaurants are located. They sat around the place, watching people eat, and *crying*. Nothing else but crying. Loudly. Vehemently, if you can consider that.

I believe the point was to show how upset they were about the dead animals, but they didn't serve to do more than be the target of vast, VAST quantities of mockery by the general sort of slackers, drunks, jocks, playboys and busybodies who were just having lunch and really didn't care whether their sandwich had had any sort of right to not BE lunch.

The campus paper covered the event, as I recall, stating in rather understated terms, "The demonstration was recieved by the student body in a somewhat less than sensitive fashion".

wow, never knew these vegens are willing to go that far, seems idiots come in all creeds.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-08-22 05:35pm

And now, the animal rights wackos won't eat honey so they don't "opress the worker bees". Once, they protested "Survivor" because the contestants ate rats. Of course, as anyone who spent time stranded, or had supplies cut off will tell you that they had fresh fruit air-dropped to them every day.

Another time, they said that the Green Bay Packers should change they're name because the name refers to "Meat Packers". And I say we move the Orange Bowl to Maine!

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-08-22 06:01pm

I'd say let the dumbasses strave, tell them planets are living too, what they'll eat then, Muwhahaha

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-08-22 06:33pm

Captain Lennox wrote:I'd say let the dumbasses strave, tell them planets are living too, what they'll eat then, Muwhahaha

If where lucky, they'll turn on themselves..

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-08-22 06:40pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Captain Lennox wrote:I'd say let the dumbasses strave, tell them planets are living too, what they'll eat then, Muwhahaha
If where lucky, they'll turn on themselves..

Oh, hehe now thats twisted.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2002-08-22 10:06pm

My ex-fiance (yes ladies, I'm single) was a vegatarian. But she never tried to 'convert' me, because I stated something flat-out in the very beginning: I like to eat meat! I like veggies too, but don't you dare take away my medium-rare steak, dammit!

Raziel · Post by **Raziel** » 2002-08-23 05:45am

My kid sister WAS a veggie for the past couple of years. Now she's reintroducing meat into her diet. Why? Because she's had a chronic lack of energy.

It's a simple fact; we're omnivores. In fact, we're mostly carnivores; The Inuit peoples in the Arctic circle survive, nay thrive, on nothing but meat products. Our systems are designed to consume meat, with some supplementation from vegetable matter. NOT the other way around, and certainly not the opposite extremem (no meat period).

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-08-23 12:18pm

Graeme Dice wrote:
USAF Ace wrote:
We eat chickens.

(And yes they're predators. Haven't you ever seen the FOX special "When Chickens Attack"?)
They are omnivores, not carnivores.

Being omnivorous does not preclude one from being a predator.

VilliageIdiot · Post by **VilliageIdiot** » 2002-08-23 03:03pm

Okay, if the chicken example doesn't work...how about sharks? We eat sharks. No debate about their predatory behavior or their canivorous diet.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2002-08-23 04:26pm

I've had alligator. It taste like chicken.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-08-23 05:32pm

I had shark once. It's like fish, but really chewy and soft. I was on a boat trip, and someone caught it. Next, I want to eat octopus.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2002-08-23 06:04pm

USAF Ace wrote:I've had alligator. It taste like chicken.

When I had it, it tasted like the sauce it was in.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2002-08-23 06:35pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Next, I want to eat octopus.

It's pretty flavorless to me, but really chewy and somewhat stringy. It makes a decent sushi type (tako), though. Squid's texture is different, but the flavor's similar.

Back on topic, I recall the response a biology professor of mine had to vegetarians -- "What do you have against plants?" Given that there isn't much difference between plants and animals apart from one not capable of running away (they're both alive, after all), maybe vegans simply don't want to see blood?

EmperorChrostas the Cruel · Post by **EmperorChrostas the Cruel** » 2002-08-23 08:23pm

How about rattlesnake? MMMM! Chicken Plus! (I have skins on the wall, for tails of "the one that DIDN'T get away!)

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-08-23 08:33pm

USAF Ace wrote:I've had alligator. It taste like chicken.

Mmmmm, alligator haven't had in awhile.*Drools* And it really taste like chicken.

Hendrake · Post by **Hendrake** » 2002-08-24 06:41am

Holy damn! I have always thought the vegetarians were being stereotyped. I know better now...

The worst I got from what I believed was a hardcore vegetarian was her leving the room while I was attacking raw horsemeat...

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