Now, now, thats just plain rude as well as incorrect at no point in your posts have you acknowleged that “there were stupid reasons from both sides of the fence, including my own”, in fact I can’t find a single line which even begins to suggest that so please if you can find such a statement show me it and I will eat humble pie.
Ahem, allow me to re-enlighten you:
“But to be totally fair, I also know quite a few people who admit taking great pleasure in eating meat because of some bad experience they’ve had with an animal earlier in their life. I know this one guy, he used to be a bullfighter back in south america. He was attacked by a bull once, he tells me he makes sure his wife prepares him a nice bloody juicy steak every so often. Kinda morbid if u ask me, but I guess stupid excuses run on both side of the fences”
Do you like your humble pie with or without crow? 🙂
I really wouldn’t have a problem eating a dog as long as u throw some A-1 steak sauce on it, yummy! 🙂
OK, I agree I should be more civil. I just like speaking my mind, I should do a better job of re-reading my post before I hit the reply button. I don’t make any excuses for anything I have said though. I had a long sit down with a vegeterian co-worker today. We went at it back and forth a few times. He would state his arguement, I would shoot it down. The only one we kinda came to a stalemate was on the issue do plants ‘feel pain’? This is something I wanna look more into, I know plants ‘react’ to certain situations, like a plant in a window sill will tilt towards the sun to comsume as much sunshine as possible. And some plants have known to ‘respond to injury’ by growing new limbs ‘branches’, if u will. But I admit, this is not good enough for me to consider it a ‘conscience’. Some would say a tomatoe is still alive when picked from the vine, it can develop color, is this a defense mechanism of fear, pain? can’t say for sure. I’d have to have a long sit down with a plant biologist, or at least spend half the night googling the darn issue 🙂 We do know plants are alive and at some point die or are killed for human comsumption. Heck, we haven’t even mentioned all the germs we swallow when we eat, those are living things we ‘kill’ or ingest, like it or not. I’d hate to have 22-inch tapeworm in my intestines, but that happens also. So I guess my biggest issue is at what level of species does a vegeterian decide it’s ‘okay’ to have this life form killed in order to not starve. Eating anything pretty much involves the death of something. For a vegeterian, it’s a matter of ‘who’s death is insignificant enough for me to sleep at night’.
OK boys and girls, how was that, civil enough for ya, I kept to the topic as best I could, see, me good boy 🙂