Meet Your Meat

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Originally Posted by GHoSToKeR

What the hell are you talking about? This kid was telling us that he wanted to stop eating meat but his parents wouldn't let him. Try reading the entire thread before you make a comment.

Edit: And to say that one person going vegetarian won't help prevent any animals from being slaughtered is ridiculous. Supply and Demand, my friend... If there's less demand then..... ? I'm sure you can figure out thes rest on your own.

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Let me try to dumb it down some more: It's his choice, it's his problem. What does he want? His parents to make an extra vegetarian meal for him? Why doesn't he make his own vegetarian meal? Are they tracking his every move making sure that he eats meat? His parents aren't his personal servant there to cater to his every whim. And why the hell am I talking to you about this? Can't he defend himself?

And now the second part: First of all I said nothing about prevention, Don't put words in my mouth. I'm going to have to dumb this one down too: Sure one person not eating meat will lower consumption, but will it stop the killing? Let me answer that for you: NO! Yeah, you not contributing to the slaughter of animals good for you, but if you believe that is in any way slowing meat production you are sadly mistaken. Quote from the USDA-

"The 2004 gross income from cattle and calves, hogs and pigs, and
sheep and lambs for the U.S. totaled $62.6 billion, up 11 percent
from 2003. Gross income increased for cattle and calves, hogs and
pigs, and sheep and lambs. Cattle and calves increased 5 percent,
hogs and pigs increased 35 percent, and sheep and lambs increased 3
percent.

Total 2004 cash receipts from marketings of meat animals increased
11 percent to $62.2 billion. Cattle and calves accounted for 76
percent of this total, hogs and pigs 23 percent, and sheep and
lambs 1 percent. Production decreased for all cattle and calves
and sheep and lambs but increased hogs and pigs. Average prices
were up for all three species."
Meat Animals Production

What happened? Are there less vegetarians now? And before you give a glib response, make sure you have something to back it up.

Ah, perfect timing.

This may come as a shock to you, but it doesn't matter if i'm making a difference or not. But i've made a personal choice not to contribute to something I strongly disagree with. Why is that hard for you to understand?

Keep in mind
[align=center]vegetarians have this on our side::
*Facts
*Compassion
*Karma
*Healthier bodies = healthier minds.
*Quality[/align]

HmMm!!
Now you complacent flesh eaters have this going for you:
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*Mcdonalds
*The Atkins diet (funny how the dude died)
*Already conditioned to eating corpses. Comes in handy when in a pinch.
*Quanity[/align]

^^ Its true. ^^

as for you dirty hippie...im really disgusted by how advanced youve gotten with your rationalizing away the mistreatment of billions of animals. its very selfish. im sure you're happy keeping things how they are now. personally though i'd like to help our society evolve past the 50's. :p
My superior diet will ensure that i'm around longer than you any way, so why am i bitching? :rolleyes:

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you know it. . .


PWNED

+lol+ Euph, your post just made me pee myself! :D

lETs breaK it dowN ok? The food chain is a natural extension of nature...

a mass produced slaughter industry is just fucked up. it is not a part of nature. it is killing the earth and directly contributing to world wide disease and starvation.
i fucking eat chik patties buffalo wings piZza nachos and everything. theres veggie alternatives to it all man. theres no need for some poor pig to live its life in misery for years being abused only to be murdered for my morning snack.
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"What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know an answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life." - Albert Einstien[/align]

At the end of the day we're animals, strip away all the emotion and morals and your an animal. It just so happens that the human animal was designed to eat mostly meat, do you get pissed off when a spider eats a fly?

"You damn spider you have no compassion for the poor fly!!!" Nah doesn't happen.

honestly its nature be a veggie if you want, nothing wrong with that. Although i do ask that you don't try to act as though you are morally superior to those who choose a different path.

I also fail to see how large food producing industry is contributing to world hunger?

rofl.. i like how they say cows have a "Eureka" moment when they find a solution to a problem.

Here's something to think about...where would we be without the consumption of meat?

hmm? I'd imagine society certainly wouldn't be where it is today if we'd been eating carrots and eggplant for centuries.

yeah we'd all be dead, we do indeed need protein.

Fools! Have you not read the previous posts?!
Humans are primarily herbivores. See those molars? Yeah. Bitch.
Spiders dont pump flies with growth homrones and abuse them their entire lives before ruthlessly slaughtering them.
A carnivorous diet fuels world hunger because we feed most of all crops to these animals. Crops that would otherwise feed an enormous amount of people.
Protein can be found in peanuts and soy and beans. You dont have to mush up pig genitals and call it a hot dog, but you seem to think it's nessecary. By the way, my hot dogs are made from soy and won't clog my heart.

all this talk of meat and slaughtering makes me wanna pointlessly torture and abuse alot of cows.