How do you, as a meat-eater, justify the violence inherent in your food?

[MrFun]

I'm a mean, cruel person because when I eat baby carrots, I dip them in peanut butter.

[Combat Ingrid]

Hufu

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Oysters.

Venison.

Barramundi.


Not the stinking corpse lily, though. That smells.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Fish

fish

but they smell.

[lord of the mark]

BTW, has anyone mentioned the climate change impact of the beef industry?

http://www.epa.gov/methane/rlep/faq.html#1

[MRT144]

arbitrary and societal assignment of purpose of animal's life.

[lord of the mark]

verbs

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Heresson


fish

but they smell.

Not when it's fresh, man!

[Heresson]

perhaps, but I mostly mean my tuna cans. OK, I can eat it, but try to leave the dish unwashed for even a short time, or try to put the can into garbage in the same room You live, and You'll know the pain.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by molly bloom


I like a big sausage.

in the Eric Cartman - pioneered way of eating, right?

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


Jon said that livestock consumed much more food (and energy) than they give. I'm pretty certain that he implied what I tried to show in detail.

You didn't show anything. You asked a question and acted like an ass about it. I gave you a chance to clarify and you acted more like a jerk. Frankly, I don't remember talking to you about anything before this. Did I insult you in some other thread to warrant that behavior?

As for Jon's statement. I didn't disagree that livestock consumed more food and energy. That wasn't where the disconnect was. I assumed that Jon was making an ecumenical argument based on his wording. When it did become clear that he was refering specifically to human food consumption and population growth, I realized that his energy efficiency argument was justified, even if impractical. So I didn't continue with my argument. That's when you showed up, and not seeing what was going on, you made a decision to be a jerk about it.

In any case, I gave you the chance to realize this with an open rhetorical question, and you missed it. Even if you assume that Jon didn't mean the same as I did, your reply to me was just off.

Don't bs. You didn't give me any chance. You just wanted to stroke your ego. If you were giving me a chance, you would have answered my question to clarify your meaning since there were two different arguments unintentially going on.

[Ramo]

Re: Re: Re: How do you, as a meat-eater, justify the violence inherent in your food?

Eat any newborn babies lately?

I'm not convinced that's such a terrible thing. The question as to whether or not they're sentient enough to warrant being protected by the state as a person IMO is pretty ambiguous, and therefore I'd (and think the state should) err towards life (and against sating my ravenous newborn cravings...).

[MRT144]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
verbs

not possible

[Dinner]

Going back to aneeshm dumb ass comment about chicken eggs... Why is it disgusting to eat the female gamete of a chicken but eating the sexual organs or zygotes of plants is ok? It's the same ****ing thing.

This strikes me as someone attempting to justify their personal bias rather then using any sort of sound reasoning.

[Spec]

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