"In-your-face Vegetarians" (My first rant!)

[Boris Godunov]

Re: Re: "In-your-face Vegetarians" (My first rant!)

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Never met any PETA members, have you?

Honestly, I haven't. But since when did PETA members represent the views of vegetarians? They don't represent vegetarians any more than the Klan represents Southern Christian...conserva...tives...

Oh wait...think I'd better find a better analogy...

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Maybe PETA members are a caste of stupid veggies ?

That goes without saying.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


I never have, and neither has anyone I know. Your experiences aren't universal, ya know.

I'm mostly vegetarian (the only meat I eat is fish), and I get crap all the time like Osweld points out. My mom thinks it's a personal thing against her just to make her meal planning difficult...

My family is pretty understanding. My sister used to be vegetarian, so they've gotten a chance to get used to it before. (thank god I wasn't the first!) Still, everyone used to say the same thing as your mom. And my grandparent's on my fathers side still treat it like some sort of disease, and practically quarantine my food, making sure they don't eat any of my vegetarian meals. (They where so considerate of it that they bought veggieburgers from M&M meat shop when I went to visit them tasted like they where made of cardboard - probably where )

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
But since when did PETA members represent the views of vegetarians?

I had no idea that reading comprehension was so poor north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I had no idea that reading comprehension was so poor north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

I may have been slow parsing out the syl-lab-les, but I think I got it ok.

[Dis]

PETA would never set foot in my city So no, I have never met one. I was also in the military as well. You just aren't likely to meet vegetarians in the military or PETA members.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I may have been slow parsing out the syl-lab-les, but I think I got it ok.

I find that to be highly doubtful given that I said anything about PETA being representative of vegetarians.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Tuberski
I'm glad you understand me, Boris. And thanks for not sharing them, I don't understand nuances, I live in Texas.



ACK!

hehe... true, its funny cause its true... *cough* Bush *cough*

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DinoDoc

I find that to be highly doubtful given that I said anything about PETA being representative of vegetarians.

I'm thinking this should be about your composition skills, not my comprehension skills.

[loinburger]

I've met plenty of in-your-face vegetarians, especially back in high school! Every time I got a Big Beef from Portillo's, and then went to the local Whole Foods market, I'd always get these veg-heads giving me the smarmiest remarks about me being a "carnovore" or some such nonsense. "Sir, would you mind not dripping beef juice on the vegetables?" "I'm afraid that I'm going to have to charge you for all of the fruit that you've licked." "For God's sake, put some pants on!" What a bunch of jerks!

[The Mad Monk]

Much of the grain used to feed the cattle are imported from places where people are too poor to afford food, and are starving to death.

We're...importing grain?

[RGBVideo]

I don't eat any meat when making my own food, but mostly from economic
and selfish reasons, so I'm a flexible wannabe-veggie...

The anti-biotics and growth hormones that are used so that the animals can live in such atracious conditions bring around "super germs" that are resistent to drugs. These drugs are also in animal waste and run-off, and contaminate the enviroment and possibly even our drinking water.

These hormones are not allowed in EU. IIRC, it was a big mess with US few years back.

[alva]

Still is AFAIK....


I just got tired of meat, I will still eat it, but less and lass. I saw too much waste working in a kitchen. Meat has become to cheap too IMHO.

[Combat Ingrid]

Re: "In-your-face Vegetarians" (My first rant!)

Originally posted by Osweld
I've always heard people complainging about "in-your-face vegetarians" who force their views on other people. But, in all my life, I have not met a single vegetarian who has tried to force their views on me. Since becoming a vegeterian. (about 4-6 months now, I think it's been) I have noticed that it's quite the opposite. Every time you mention you are a vegetarian, someone's going to come up with a smart-ass remark or give you odd looks.

It seems like you don't even need to mention it. Whenever you are at a dinner and someone finds out you had the vegetarian meal, you will soon be under heavy fire and have to defend why you don't eat meat...

Yes, I know. We veggies are evil plant eaters, but as long as it's legal you can't stop us!

[MRT144]

i tried to be a vegetarian after a mass consumption of meat incident( i ate 5lbs of meat at in and out burger). it lasted about 6 months until i had a chicken burrito...

i still refrain from eating red meat though if given the option