bad rider said:
Hurr Durr Derp said:
interspark said:
Furburt said:
I'm a pescedarian (I will never be able to spell that properly), which means I eat fish and not meat. I have no real reason for not eating meat, I just hate the taste. And before you ask, yes, I have most probably tried every meat and preparation thereof that you care to ask me, and hated them all.
I voted veggie, as that's closer to what I am.
no no no, you cant vote veggie, god i hate people who do this! FISH ARE NO LESS ANIMALS THAN PIGS AND COWS you, MATE, are not a vegetarian *sticks tongue out*
With that logic, how do you justify being a vegetarian vs being a vegan?
Animals aren't treated any different whether you drink their milk, eat their eggs, wear their skin, or eat their meat.
VEGETARIAN
Cut the crap.
Actually as a fellow vegetarian there is a small difference in that in the vegan/vegetarian debate you still aren't killing animals. Also I justify easting eggs I own chickens and I see it as an exchange. Food water plenty of room to run about and shelter from predators in exchange for what would otherwise be a wast product. As for cows, well, It's really fucking difficult to live without milk okay.
If it's about how difficult it is to eat something or not, I won't argue. That's just preference. Just as I won't argue with someone who just doesn't
like meat. It's just that milk cows don't necessarily live much of a better life than meat cows. They don't kill them? What do you think they do to a milk cow when it gets past its milk-giving prime? They sure as hell don't send them to a cow retirement home, if you catch my drift.
Just face it: If you use animal products, whether it's meat or leather or milk or whatever., that means some animal got 'abused' for it. Your eggs-ample (I AM SO WITTY) is probably the only real exception to it, since you personally guarantee that the chickens have enough food and water and room and whatever it is chickens need. It's still no proper alternative to living in the wild, but I highly doubt that most domesticated animals would even be able to survive in the wild, so that point is moot anyway.
As I said, if you simply don't like meat I've got no argument with that, but if you don't eat meat because you love cows or whatever, but you still drink milk and wear leather shoes, you're fooling no one but yourself.
That's why I objected to the post I quoted. Furburt mentioned eating fish but not meat, which interspark disapproved of because 'fish are no less animals than pigs and cows'. While I agree that fish are animals, it's pure ignorance to claim you're doing something 'for the animals', and yet not give a shit about those same animals when it comes to slightly different products. My point is, if you care enough about animals to become vegetarian, but not to become a vegan, you're full of crap. Eat meat or don't eat meat, whatever. But don't claim you're doing it out of love for animals if you're only willing to go halfway. It's like saying you don't buy Reeboks because they use child labor to make their shoes, and then show up in a brand new pair of Nikes.
