- 25 Aug 2012 01:46
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Alis Volat Propriis; Tiocfaidh ár lá; Proletarier Aller Länder, Vereinigt Euch!
I try to buy high quality local foods. But I'm an omnivore. Why? Because that's what a billion years of evolution has rendered my body to process.
I have a friend who, after being obese, became a vegetarian and started working out a lot and whatnot. He did well for himself. He started to go on and on about vegetarianism.
I stopped him and said, "Why do people become vegetarians and then talk about it constantly?"
He thought for a moment and said, "Because it fucking sucks. Once I'm in control again, I can't wait to eat meat. Not being able to is fucking horrible, and the only thing we have is to talk ourselves into thinking that it's great while you get to eat good food."
I laughed. I still think about it now whenever a fight like this breaks out.
The fact is, agriculture kills way more animals and insects than anything else.
So even eating vegetarian means killing animals.
So your options are all poison.
Do you see that this is a terrible biological problem, or are you just going along to get along?
I have a friend who, after being obese, became a vegetarian and started working out a lot and whatnot. He did well for himself. He started to go on and on about vegetarianism.
I stopped him and said, "Why do people become vegetarians and then talk about it constantly?"
He thought for a moment and said, "Because it fucking sucks. Once I'm in control again, I can't wait to eat meat. Not being able to is fucking horrible, and the only thing we have is to talk ourselves into thinking that it's great while you get to eat good food."
I laughed. I still think about it now whenever a fight like this breaks out.
The fact is, agriculture kills way more animals and insects than anything else.
ABC News wrote:One of the reasons most commonly cited by vegetarians for giving up meat is the conviction that other animals have a right to life as well as humans. But when Davis began setting up a course on animal ethics for the animal science department at Oregon State University four years ago, he reached a rather surprising conclusion.
Nobody's hands are free from the blood of other animals, not even vegetarians, he concluded. Millions of animals are killed every year, Davis says, to prepare land for growing crops, "like corn, soybean, wheat and barley, the staples of a vegan diet."
Smaller Victims
The animals in this case are mice and moles and rabbits and other creatures that are run over by tractors, or lose their habitat to make way for farming, so they are not as "visible" as cattle, he says.
And that, Davis says, gives rise to a fundamental question: "What is it that makes it OK to kill animals of the field so that we can eat [vegetables or fruits] but not pigs or chickens or cows?"
Any disruption of the land, whether it be to farm or to build subdivisions, reduces the amount of land left for other animals, resulting in the deaths of many. And Davis, a professor of animal science at Oregon State who grew up on a farm, says as a child he saw animals killed by the routine operation of farm machinery, so there's no way to have a bloodless farm.
"If they say they don't want to kill an animal so they can eat, I think their conclusion is misguided because they are killing animals so that they can eat that vegetarian diet," Davis says. "Those animals happen to be a little bit invisible. They are not as obvious to the man on the street as killing a steer in the slaughterhouse. But nonetheless, it's still going on."
So even eating vegetarian means killing animals.
So your options are all poison.
Do you see that this is a terrible biological problem, or are you just going along to get along?
Alis Volat Propriis; Tiocfaidh ár lá; Proletarier Aller Länder, Vereinigt Euch!