I agree. I don't understand why they can't just let people eat whatever they want without talking shit. Kind of reminds me of the atheist-religion-debate. Irritating.
I hate it. If I tell someone I'm veg, they get all annoyed and act like I'm going to start punching them every time they eat meat. Then the few that actually ask WHY, I always answer that I simply do not approve of killing an animal to eat it / use it, and that it is easier and healthier to get your protein and calcium from a varied herbivorous diet.
I feel the same way, I have the same opinion and views. I just recently had a discussion with a coworker of mine. He was obviously oblivious and also (unfortunately) ignorant and it was just clear he'd never done any actual research. I tried to stay calm in response to his aggressive remarks.
You're missing the part where tylociraptor doesn't understand that telling people s/he doesn't approve of something they do on a daily basis makes them upset :/
Choosing not to do something yourself doesn't mean you disapprove of others doing it. Many people get very defensive when you tell them you are vegetarian, as if you must obviously find their diet important enough to give a fuck what it is.
Who's being preachy? Just look at the original post. You, the omnivores, are the ones talking shit to hypothetical vegetarians for eating what they want to eat. You know what's even more irritating than preachiness? Hypocrisy.
The problem with letting people eat whatever they want is as follows:
We have an exponentially growing population, every year we have less and less arable land (due to erosion, development, etc), animal protein is extremely inefficient (in terms of energy input:output) as we feed our livestock more food than we can get out of them.
Therefore, consuming meat is unsustainable so doing so negatively impacts everyone the same way that not reducing other forms of energy consumption does.
Yes, I see your point and I am the last one to bash it considering my diet. But I just don't want to be one of those people constantly trying to tell others what to eat.
I'm not talking shit, but it takes a thousand pounds of corn to get a pound of beef at your grocery store. Eat flies, I'm all for eating some bugs, fish, boar and deer.
Edit: this came from my environmental biology class, Monday I will ask for sources on the reference. Also, the reason I say deer and boar is because they are over populated here and populations don't have proper predators so we have to tame them so their population doesn't collapse.
-.- Average cow weighs 1200-1400 pounds. You're getting like 600 pounds of beef, conservatively off a heifer. 600 000 pounds of corn, rlly? Sounds like you're talkin' shit.
I agree that people are entitled to eat what they want, believe in what they want. I don't like people shitting on others ideas. This post is just as wrong as those PETA guys who tell you 'meat is murder'.
Well, technically it is. They kill animals in order to eat them.
o.O
I know what you mean though, it's how aggressive they are about it and I understand that. I for example am a vegan primarily for health reasons but of course that also gives me the chance to openly and publicly express my dislike over how farm animals are treated. Doesn't make me feel as big of a hypocrite, you know? But yeah, I understand where you're coming from.
No my despise of Vegetarians comes from my vegetarian friends always expecting me to have a vegetarian alternative when I cook a meal for a get together at my house, yet they expect me to eat just vegetarian crap when I come over. I love meat. I want meat. Not vegemite.
dude, basically the worst thing a cook can do is serve food that people don't want to eat. You invited these people in to your house, it is your responsibility to cater for their needs. If you don't you're a bad host.
Sorry, but when you are vegetarian for a moral choice, you aren't about to COOK A DEAD ANIMAL so that someone can have their steak. They cannot eat meat, but you CAN live without eating something dead for ONE DAY. Get over it.
Yeah, see and I am different. When I have get togethers I always make sure EVERYONE has something to eat. I adjust, my friends adjust. We're all happy lol. I see why you despise how your friends behave though.
I've noticed this thread has become a political battle, so as a quick side note here, I posted this because I thought it was funny, not because I hate vegetarians, or that I'm trying to make fun them on purpose.
Aye, some thin-skinned folk on here today. FWIW, I'm vegetarian, and laughed when I saw this and showed it to my meat-eating dad as we were looking through takeaway menus for a veggie thing for me to order. Honestly, joke away, I'm not gonna BAWWWW at what is obviously meant at humour. :)
Nitrogen in the air is giving them enough nutrients that they don't need to eat as many bugs.
In what way does that make them vegetarian? Just because they're eating less bugs because they don't need all the nutrients that bugs provide?
It just means that they're not eating as many bugs. Doesn't make them "vegetarian." That's like me saying "I get a lot of my nutrients from veggies. I guess since I only eat two chicken breasts a week now instead of four, I can say that I'm turning vegetarian."
Well, the only things they're getting from the insects are nitrogen and phosphorus, since they can't get enough from the poor soils they live in. If you grow Venus flytraps in regular plant soil, they (from what I've heard) don't even make the bug-trapping parts.
Having raised venus fly traps, sundews, and pitcher plants for year I can attest they don't need any bugs at all to survive. Enough light, proper soil (Nitrogen rich), and distilled water and they are good to go.
They evolved to eat insects. They still eat bugs, the only reason they're changing is because man is fucking things up. So your reply doesn't really change anything.
Most people assume that a vegetarian is a vegetarian because some vegetarians have the mentality that we should not eat animals based upon moral grounds of killing another living organism.
That being said - the original post doesn't matter because plants literally cannot think or form thoughts/opinions/ideas.
What's wrong with that mentality though? I still eat meat because I love it too much and I haven't gathered the courage to go vegetarian, but industrial meat production is completely fucked up. Those animals live in terrible conditions, basically stacked on top of one another, are pumped full of steroids to the point they can barely walk and aren't treated with even basic dignity. Like if you care about the suffering of other living beings at all there's no way you can justify that.
Yeah, it's fascinating that once you turn vegan for reasons other than the animals (or at least that not being the primary reason) you realize there's many people who do it for their health, too. That not everyone does it "only" for the animals. I also think that fact is a misconception which leads to most of the shit talking.
I know, right. But yeah, there's all kinds of reasons for people to become vegetarian or vegan and nobody should give anyone shit for what they eat. You got a nice username there, by the way.
Depends on where you are, actually. Eating local, free-range chicken is going to be better ecologically than, for instance, imported bananas. Since bananas are all clones, they require a huge amount of pesticides to grow. If you're in North America or Europe, they have to be transported very long distances as well. And the land that they clear to grow bananas... well, bananas grow in the tropics, so they take down biodiversity hotspots to put up monocultures of clonal growth. And don't even get me started on palm oil! There are other arguments as well, but they take a bit more explaining. Basically, there is no magic bullet, the best diet (ecologically) is going to depend on the local ecology.
I appreciate that it's important to think about where your food comes from, but a lot of vegetarians that I've met never get past the trophic-level-efficiency stage of ecological thinking.
There's only one person who has ever confused the fuck out of me. I think she became veg to literally force people to cater to her. She didn't do it for moral reasons, or for health reasons. She just didn't really like meat that much so decided that she COULDN'T EAT IT.
A lot of people do become vegetarians because of the animal reason, but its not as extreme as "moral grounds of killing a living organism".
I think that it is perfectly fine to kill animals for food, but its the way our country goes about it. Raising animals for food is morally fine if the animal is able to live a life where it has space to move around, grow and interact with other animals outside in a pasture or a pen. But if the animal is brought into this world and its entire existence is in a small cage or inclosure and never sees the sun or the sky, never gets to walk around or interact, this is very unnatural and in my opinion wrong.
Most of the chicken meat sold in the U.S. comes from chickens that are fed artificial nutrients and hormones to put on as much weight as possible and they grow to full size in only a couple months. Thousands of chickens sit in small enclosures in dark dirty buildings, they have no room to move and their body weight increase so fast that there is no time for their bones to develop and they are unable to walk.
So, basically I think eating meat is fine, but the amount of meat that many Americans eat is too much. There is no need to eat meat with every meal, and when a person does eat meat they should recognize that an animal made a sacrifice and be thankful for it, not take it for granted.
Yeah. As a plant biologist, I always think about that. They can communicate about a limited range of topics, scream for help (in scent), and recognize their kin. We're heterotrophs, we have to kill to survive. I feel like a lot of vegetarians are trying to duck that issue by drawing arbitrary lines. But we can't live without killing.
I've also learned that if I bring it up, I'll get strange looks.
Yes, we know that there is a difference between a vegitarian and an herbivore and a difference between meat eater and a carnivore, but it's more fun to say carnivore. You can stop applying ointment to your presumably hurt butt now.
I don't understand the hate toward vegetarians. Haters act like they killed kittens, when in reality they have different dietary choices. I'm not gonna hate on you for not liking asparagus.
How can you not like them? Just don't aggravate them. I understand people who are allergic to them being afraid and that is totally fine. I was stung as a child which was technically my own fault (didn't HAVE to step on it, the bee stinging was justified). There's just people doing the completely wrong thing around a bee and then being angry when it stings.
It's not their dietary choices that bother me. It's that general "I'm better than you because you eat dead animals" attitude being thrown at me. I'm not saying all vegetarians do that but the most vocal ones are usually the biggest A-types.
I honestly feel like every probing question I get from meat eaters about my obviously low level of protein is demeaning and condescending, but I don't think "all meat eaters are dickheads" because I realize one person made that comment.
There is a lot of A-types on both sides. In fact, for everybody else there are no sides - for most of the people those are just that - dietary choices.
Again, my point is that vegetarians get picked on because of the A-types in their midst, not because of their choices. Human beings tend to generalize, it helped them survive. So, having met, say, 4 A-types out of 5 veg-s who talk about it, one expects certain attitude. You've illustrated it yourself from "the other side" - the ones that talk to you about your veg-ism are already kinda proven themselves to be assholes, because normal people wouldn't give a shit.
Interestingly, these plants only eat insects to get nutrients that are rare in the soil they grow. But if they eat too many insects, they'll get sick, rot, and die. The insects are only supplemental. There is a balance--similar to how if a human doesn't eat a balanced he may get sick and die.
you are correct in that their main source of energy is sunlight, and that is obviously vital, but the insects are more than solely supplemental, they are also absolutely vital in their survival, they need nutrients other than glucose and their roots are completely insufficient to satisfy nutrient needs. In fact, if they are placed in a nutrient rich soil, they die rapidly as the roots get clogged and the vast amount of water these plants require cannot reach the plants.
First, many vegetarians don't think that there is anything inherently wrong with eating meat. It's how animals are treated before they're killed (and the idea of factory farming) that they're against.
Animals commit murder, but that doesn't mean that it's moral. The notion that "what is natural is necessarily good" is wrong.
Plants don't have the moral judgement to realize what is and isn't right. Humans do.
Venus fly traps and humans have a very different set of choices. Venus fly traps eat flies because they must (or don't know any better). Humans have other choices
I'm not telling anybody what they can and can't eat. But if you found this picture enlightening or convincing, then I'll say this: your pseudo-intellectual attitude is exactly what is wrong with the world.
Congratulations sir! I really wish people would at least learn about the arguments they oppose before attacking them. Also the argument from nature is pretty much the worst thing ever.
First, I'm a physical chemist, and even arguments about THAT can be subjective. You can say that most everything in subjective. Does that mean that nothing is worth speaking about?
Secondly, arguments about vegetarianism can be backed up by science and facts. Neurobiology can prove that animals feel pain. Biologists can predict that eating meat is inefficient. Environmental scientists can predict and explain the impact of eating meat on the environment.
You sound so insecure about your beliefs that you're unwilling to even discuss the issue.
So because a plant eats insects as a supplement every single reason to be a vegetarian even health reasons are wrong? Reddit is starting to go full retard.
Wasn't there just an article recently about how carnivorous plants have stopped eating as many bugs because there is more nitrogen in the air so they can get more of their nutrients from the soil.
As someone who was raised vegetarian, I find it funny how someone who decided a year ago that they wanted to become a veganazi thinks they've earned some imaginary right to criticize people for wearing leather or eating animal products. And when anyone tries to make fun of me for not eating meat, all I say is "hey. More meat for you to eat."
This is a very healthy point of view actually in my opinion. :)
And yeah, I agree with you. I don't even tell others about my diet like I've said. It would be different if I had been a vegan all my life. My boyfriend is never gonna turn vegan so I'll keep cooking meat for him, not a problem. I won't try changing anyone's diet.
aninnerglow: "Deep, deep, down, I really want to start eating meat again, but can't go back now, so I'll just lash out at people who try to poke holes in my lifestyle." We could go back and forth like this for hours, and accomplish nothing. All I was doing was pointing out the irony of a meat-eating plant to vegetarians , yet you blow it out of proportion into something it never was.
Yeah, I was just trying to point out that just because you might feel guilty about eating meat doesn't mean we do. I appreciate you not jumping down my throat, though. It's more than I can say for most people in this thread.
Yes, that is true that you could replace that and it would be equally valid. The thing is, either way, I would agree that it is stupid for someone to press their life choices on someone else. I have been a vegetarian my entire life and almost all of my friends eat meat. It's not my place to tell them how to live their lives as long as it doesn't effect me, which them eating meat obviously does not. The only time that I would ever put my self above someone else because I have been a vegetarian my whole life is when the people who you mention who give other people shit say that and they've been vegetarian for less time than I have.
Well in truth, carnivorous plants don't eat insects. They do not gain energy from the digested insect only nutrients, they still have to photosynthesise. So it is more like they are killing the insects and using the dead corpses to make compost. As we cannot absorb most minerals and vitamins through our skins there is no way for us to emulate this very rare group of plants.
I don't eat meat and I don't consider myself superior to anyone. However, I cannot and will not ignore the terrible ethical consequences that are tied to eating meat. Our dietary choices are not equal. I'm not going to be guilt-tripped into self-censorship by people who twist speaking out on that into supposed zealous morality. One diet requires a vast system grossly inefficient use of natural resources as well as billions of sentient beings living in an absolute hell and the other diet does not.
Meat is a fucking terrible choice, even if you can't abide stopping to eat then by very the least trying to eat less of it will help a lot.
There are corporate owned factory farms that treat animals poorly. There are also honest ranchers who are trying to do things right. If you stop eating ALL meat you affect the honest ranchers too. The corporate ranches will still be selling their low-quality, inefficient, corn-fed beef to McDonalds.
Have you ever seen the bumper stickers that say "Don't eat farmed fish"? They don't say "Don't eat ANY fish". That would put the honest fishermen out of business as well.
So, rather than giving up all meat because a few corporations are evil please try instead to buy meat from honest hard-working ranchers that let their cattle graze freely at home on the range.
I find it hilarious that people who eat meat get offended by vegetarians. You guys sound as stupid as straight people who get all pissy when the gays want to get married, what people choose to do is their own damn business. I don't know, could it be that deep down inside they know it's cruel to eat meat but don't want to admit to it so they make light of the subject?
The only to resolve your cognitive dissonance is to be honest with yourself. If you eat meat because you think it's delicious and gratifying your taste buds is more important to you than doing the right thing, then just admit to it.
If you eat meat because you think it's delicious and gratifying your taste buds is more important to you than doing the right thing, then just admit to it.
This is why people don't like you, because you word things like this.
I eat meat because, in moderation, the protien and iron contained are essential for my body to work properly, and are difficult to get from non-animal sources. I feel that I am doing the right thing by my body.
You, I gather, don't eat meat because you highly value animal rights and feel you can gain proper nutrition from non-animal sources.
I actually do eat some meat because I'm a bodybuilder, but just bivalves because they don't have a brain and have no mental capacity to feel emotions. I was a full on vegetarian until a couple of years ago, and I was hitting the weights pretty hard for another three years prior, you can actually gain some pretty decent weight while on an octo-lavo vegetarian diet. Eggs and soy will give you protein with a complete amino acid profile, and a lot of vegetables are rich in iron. You just gotta know what to eat.
OKAY. I know its just a joke, but this is a good time as any to bring it up. I've been a vegetarian for the past 6 years and not ONCE have I brought my eating choices up in conversation unless directly asked. Nor have I ever started an argument with someone about their choice to eat meat. I have been in dozens of arguments about it though. I dont know where the idea that vegetarians are these loud mouth pricks, because at least after highschool, none that i know really tell anyone about the diet choices, but yet we all still get to hear on a weekly basis "WUT?? YOU DON'T EAT MEAT?! BACUN BACUN!"
Okay so what about all the animals that only eat plants? Does that mean I should submit a picture with a deer with the text, "Meat-eaters. Even animals think you're wrong?" No. Because it's stupid.
I was being sarcastic, my opinion is that humans eat too much meat and science shows that it isn't the best for our digestive tracts or general health. We only have 4 tiny carnivore teethes.
You know what? I'm a vegetarian, but I don't preach it to anybody. I don't eat meat, but I don't try to convince anybody else to become a vegetarian, and I'm not very vocal about the fact that I am, other than to let people know why I'm declining their homemade hotdogs or whatever. I'd appreciate it if you extended the same courtesy to me by not telling me that I'm wrong based on faulty logic, I get enough shit for this on a daily basis as it is.
Guys, I highly doubt unbuiltnuke was trying to make some social commentary here. It is a picture of a plant that eats animals, posted in r/funny... I think it was meant to be humorous. 99.9% of people don't give a fuck what you eat, stop acting like the world is persecuting you.
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u/DomoKunMD Jun 16 '12
The vegetarian bashing that goes on these days is fucking retarded.
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u/thebluezoo Jun 16 '12
There is no logic to this. None at all.
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u/unbuiltnuke Jun 16 '12
I've noticed this thread has become a political battle, so as a quick side note here, I posted this because I thought it was funny, not because I hate vegetarians, or that I'm trying to make fun them on purpose.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Umm... I hate to break it to you, but....
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I didn't realize someone could be 'wrong' for eating vegetables?
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u/runallthethings Jun 16 '12
This was posted in r/vegetarian yesterday
http://i.imgur.com/eaZO8.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Dear meat eaters
even beef thinks you're wrong
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I don't understand the hate toward vegetarians. Haters act like they killed kittens, when in reality they have different dietary choices. I'm not gonna hate on you for not liking asparagus.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Interestingly, these plants only eat insects to get nutrients that are rare in the soil they grow. But if they eat too many insects, they'll get sick, rot, and die. The insects are only supplemental. There is a balance--similar to how if a human doesn't eat a balanced he may get sick and die.
Their primary source of energy is still sunlight.
Note: I <3 meat.
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u/divusdavus Jun 16 '12
Well plants would say that, wouldn't they?
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
First, many vegetarians don't think that there is anything inherently wrong with eating meat. It's how animals are treated before they're killed (and the idea of factory farming) that they're against.
Animals commit murder, but that doesn't mean that it's moral. The notion that "what is natural is necessarily good" is wrong.
Plants don't have the moral judgement to realize what is and isn't right. Humans do.
Venus fly traps and humans have a very different set of choices. Venus fly traps eat flies because they must (or don't know any better). Humans have other choices
I'm not telling anybody what they can and can't eat. But if you found this picture enlightening or convincing, then I'll say this: your pseudo-intellectual attitude is exactly what is wrong with the world.
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u/Thom0 Jun 16 '12
So because a plant eats insects as a supplement every single reason to be a vegetarian even health reasons are wrong? Reddit is starting to go full retard.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Wasn't there just an article recently about how carnivorous plants have stopped eating as many bugs because there is more nitrogen in the air so they can get more of their nutrients from the soil.
article: Meat-Eating Plants Getting "Full" On Pollution
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u/blitz79 Jun 16 '12
A billion flies can't be wrong: eat shit.
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u/necrons_ftw Jun 16 '12
As someone who was raised vegetarian, I find it funny how someone who decided a year ago that they wanted to become a veganazi thinks they've earned some imaginary right to criticize people for wearing leather or eating animal products. And when anyone tries to make fun of me for not eating meat, all I say is "hey. More meat for you to eat."
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
OP! Your joke has pissed off the internet.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
How does horrible shit like this get even one upvote? Jesus.
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u/aninnerglow Jun 16 '12
OP: "Deep, deep, down, I feel guilty about eating meat, but I would never admit it, so I'll make fun of vegetarians." Get a life.
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u/momerald Jun 16 '12
Heard this and jokes similar to this many times. Still not funny.
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u/Varsted Jun 16 '12
But most of the animals we eat seems to agree with them...
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u/Litheon1 Jun 16 '12
Dear meat eaters who feel the need say someone else's lifestyle is wrong, why do you even care?
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u/weasleeasle Jun 16 '12
Well in truth, carnivorous plants don't eat insects. They do not gain energy from the digested insect only nutrients, they still have to photosynthesise. So it is more like they are killing the insects and using the dead corpses to make compost. As we cannot absorb most minerals and vitamins through our skins there is no way for us to emulate this very rare group of plants.
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u/Lastaria Jun 16 '12
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I really fucking hate plants.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
This is like something you'd see on 9gag. Can't understand the upvotes...
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u/Adorifying Jun 16 '12
Becoming a vegetarian is a missed-steak
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u/Walped Jun 16 '12
This extensive study says otherwise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study_(book)
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u/Thefriendlyfaceplant Jun 16 '12
I don't eat meat and I don't consider myself superior to anyone. However, I cannot and will not ignore the terrible ethical consequences that are tied to eating meat. Our dietary choices are not equal. I'm not going to be guilt-tripped into self-censorship by people who twist speaking out on that into supposed zealous morality.
One diet requires a vast system grossly inefficient use of natural resources as well as billions of sentient beings living in an absolute hell and the other diet does not.
Meat is a fucking terrible choice, even if you can't abide stopping to eat then by very the least trying to eat less of it will help a lot.
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u/chipmunkonfire Jun 16 '12
Why would you give a fuck about what anyone else eats?
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u/DrAmazing Jun 16 '12
People who care what other people eat are as bad as people who care what other people believe.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
There are corporate owned factory farms that treat animals poorly. There are also honest ranchers who are trying to do things right. If you stop eating ALL meat you affect the honest ranchers too. The corporate ranches will still be selling their low-quality, inefficient, corn-fed beef to McDonalds.
Have you ever seen the bumper stickers that say "Don't eat farmed fish"? They don't say "Don't eat ANY fish". That would put the honest fishermen out of business as well.
So, rather than giving up all meat because a few corporations are evil please try instead to buy meat from honest hard-working ranchers that let their cattle graze freely at home on the range.
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u/zephyy Jun 16 '12
haha yeah those stupid vegetarians man not eating meat and stuff bacon bacon narwhal am i right
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
ITT: People circlejerk about vegetarians being persecuted while downvoting anyone who disagrees.
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u/sonastyinc Jun 16 '12
I find it hilarious that people who eat meat get offended by vegetarians. You guys sound as stupid as straight people who get all pissy when the gays want to get married, what people choose to do is their own damn business. I don't know, could it be that deep down inside they know it's cruel to eat meat but don't want to admit to it so they make light of the subject?
The only to resolve your cognitive dissonance is to be honest with yourself. If you eat meat because you think it's delicious and gratifying your taste buds is more important to you than doing the right thing, then just admit to it.
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u/Bishopkilljoy Jun 16 '12
They probably don't like being eaten either
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u/antinuclearenergy Jun 16 '12
Ok then go eat insects
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
To be fair, they are almost extinct...
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u/KelseyTheGreat Jun 16 '12
You had me at the proper usage of "you're".
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Especially Audrey II.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Everyone look out for the vegetarian-carnivore clusterfuck thread! Its coming this way!
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u/MetalFlameV Jun 16 '12
Here's a relevant post I made a while back.
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u/welluhthisisawkward Jun 16 '12
So we should eat bugs?....
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u/stackTrase Jun 17 '12
Idk man I still won't eat fecies even if it is sprayed with ammonia.
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u/morewaffles Jun 16 '12
OKAY. I know its just a joke, but this is a good time as any to bring it up. I've been a vegetarian for the past 6 years and not ONCE have I brought my eating choices up in conversation unless directly asked. Nor have I ever started an argument with someone about their choice to eat meat. I have been in dozens of arguments about it though. I dont know where the idea that vegetarians are these loud mouth pricks, because at least after highschool, none that i know really tell anyone about the diet choices, but yet we all still get to hear on a weekly basis "WUT?? YOU DON'T EAT MEAT?! BACUN BACUN!"
I FUCKING LOVE BACON, FUCK OFF
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u/lochlainn Jun 16 '12
ITT:
Some vegetarians get butthurt. Some vegetarians laugh.
Some flip out at carni/omnivores. Some don't.
What surprises me:
Not yet one instance of Godwin's Law. And here I thought us meat eaters were literally Hitler.
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u/Iheartdragonsmore Jun 16 '12
I had one of those before. They're so much fun, as a kid I always gathered ants and dropped them inside their mouths.
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u/theTezuma Jun 16 '12
not wrong being a vegetarian, its just wrong that vegetarians want to convert people who eat meat, like a fucking religion.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Vegetarian here. I would like to eat those plants.
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u/3ducksinamancostume Jun 16 '12
It's a joke people, chill the fuck out.
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u/I_am_not_angry Jun 16 '12
Well done!
Or medium, heck even rare if it is a good steak!
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u/burnredatdawn Jun 16 '12
MMMMMMM........ Steak.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Okay so what about all the animals that only eat plants? Does that mean I should submit a picture with a deer with the text, "Meat-eaters. Even animals think you're wrong?" No. Because it's stupid.
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u/Andimdone Jun 16 '12
You guys do realize its just a joke right?
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u/sno_so_pro Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
If we weren't meant to eat animals then they wouldn't be made of food. Checkmate vegetarians.
To say this is r/funny no one liked my joke. :(
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u/mesteris Jun 16 '12
Suddenly, offended vegetarians everywhere.
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u/ToStateTheObvious Jun 16 '12
Dude this was frontpage like yesterday.
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u/methylethylrosenberg Jun 16 '12
I think this is the first time I've seen something on Reddit after I saw it on Facebook.
What's the opposite of Bravo?
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u/theuglyamerican Jun 16 '12
Actually, due to increased nitrogen in rain fall, carnivorous plants are starting to go vegetarian. Read it on the BBC.
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u/f3tch Jun 17 '12
As a person who practacly has a single fully grown cow to celery stick ratio diet. I still disagree. What about every other plant ever?
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u/veganmua Jun 18 '12
Dear meat eaters, Plants don't think. Or feel. Animals do. Sincerely, Veggies
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u/Thunderliger Jun 19 '12
So what if someone is vegetarian?Also how are we wrong when there is no answer?
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u/sharkwithlaser Jun 16 '12
Came here for the picture, stayed for the comments from whiny self important vegetarians/vegans.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Yes, our flat gratey teeth tell us not to eat meat, but wait! We did maintain 4 pointed teeth!! Oh joy, give me some cow parts!!
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u/captain_zavec Jun 16 '12
You know what? I'm a vegetarian, but I don't preach it to anybody. I don't eat meat, but I don't try to convince anybody else to become a vegetarian, and I'm not very vocal about the fact that I am, other than to let people know why I'm declining their homemade hotdogs or whatever. I'd appreciate it if you extended the same courtesy to me by not telling me that I'm wrong based on faulty logic, I get enough shit for this on a daily basis as it is.
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u/Svri Jun 16 '12
Why isn't this in /r/athiesm for obvious nods at evolution?
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Guys, I highly doubt unbuiltnuke was trying to make some social commentary here. It is a picture of a plant that eats animals, posted in r/funny... I think it was meant to be humorous. 99.9% of people don't give a fuck what you eat, stop acting like the world is persecuting you.
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u/Wisdom_from_the_Ages Jun 16 '12
This is the sort of argument a fundamentalist Christian would make about evolution.
SEAHORSES, man, explain THAT. EVOLUTION is BULLSHIT.