"Feeding Kids Meat is Child Abuse"

[klaynexas3]

Next step: gather an army of dreadlocked University students to at McDonalds' all over the world to throw a buckets of pig blood on children.

All of whom will transpire to have latent telekinetic powers, causing the greatest pig-related loss of human life since H1N1.

OT: I.. I sort of agree. Meat isn't great for you [human digestive system too long, meat rots, releases carcinogens] and the nutrients can be found elsewhere. Plus we are going to have to wean ourselves off the stuff as a species, as it's an extremely wasteful method of getting energy.

I don't think we should stop completely, while it is wasteful(I learned that yesterday in biology, is this ms. woods? are you trying to get me to study?) I still love me some burgers. I could go for one right about now. it's not going to kill us as a species if we continue to eat meat, just include more vegetables and fruits in there, and we'll be fine

Get of the internet, boy. Those Punnet squares won't map themselves.

Anyway.. The accepted trend is for affluent individuals to eat more meat. You can look up the statistics for China with regard to increased meat-consumption among the new middle-class. This will happen to more and more developing countries, which will increase the demand exponentially. This in turn will lead to deforestation to create grazing land, and that's bad for a plethora of reasons.

Also, we are already using a massive amount of crops to feed animals; again, look up the statistics on American corn usage.
This is hugely wasteful, as the majority of that corn is fit for human consumption, and the land that's used to cultivate it could be used to grow a variety of different foodstuffs. Monoculture is a bad thing to begin with, as it wreaks all kinds of havoc with established ecosystems.
I'm not advocating complete abstinence, but as a species, we really need to cut down on meat. That, or get over this irrational fear of cloned meat. Destroying entire ecosystems is as much 'playing God' as growing steaks in a laboratory.

/lecture

okay, i thought you meant give it up all together. and yeah, i understand cutting back, and i believe that we should. it takes up way too much resources with how much we have at the moment, but we can change that, hopefully.

 

[AnimatedAmbiguity]

Oh, for the love of...

I can't say I'm at all surprised. But you know what PETA? Nobody other than yourselves and obsessive hippies (I.E. again, yourselves) really give half a rats ass! Keep trying to convince us that meat is bad, because the steps you take to try and quote-unquote "convert" people over to your views have become so amusingly full of ludicrous BS that it's borderline comical!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a big, deliciously tender and juicy Omaha stake on the grill, and would hate to squander it. I mean, animals are tasty for a reason, yes?

And for the record, I don't hate vegans. I just have a problem with those that try too hard.

 

[CarlMin]

PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals... why are they protesting the consumption of my favorite Disney characters? I for one, think Thumper is very delicious.

As long as you leave Bolt alone...

 

[Idocreating]

Sorry Peta. All that advert is doing is making me want a burger right now.

 

[Nimzabaat]

Wow 20 pages of threads. Sorry if this i've been ninja's but a couple tried raising their infant vegan. That resulted in the death of said infant. The couple was charged with neglect. So... negligent death vs child abuse?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6642543.stm?lsm

 

[BKtheKITTY]

Does PETA realise that the immediate implication of their advert is that anyone who's parents fed them meat as a child is thus a victim of abuse? Good luck getting a nation to agree on that one.
I think meat was probably the best part of my childhood.