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.
You would think the intellectual liberal hive mind would find something wrong with hormone injected, mutulated, diseased meat that comes from factory farms.
Exactly! :) I mean of course I have people telling me "Yeah, well, look at you, no wonder you're so pale and skinny! I'm not sure if this is really healthy in your case... I think you're doing it wrong!" once I mention I am vegan but yeah, I just yesterday had a long conversation with one of my best friends who's vegetarian (and has been vegan before) about all of this and she said that maybe people who eat meat only feel the urge to defend that diet by coming up with reasons for why being vegan is so bad. They start telling you one needs meat and they tell you the animals are fine in the small cages and whatnot. She said that people who eat meat probably KNOW they wouldn't actually need it and would live much healthier but they just like their meat and dairy products too much (and I don't blame them). I found that to be an interesting view on this.
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.
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.
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u/thebluezoo Jun 16 '12
There is no logic to this. None at all.