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[True Valhalla]

You do realize that even the majority of vegetarians/vegans hate PETA as much as everyone else, right?

[chance]

Can't help but laugh my ass off at the idiots above pushing the vegan/vegetarian hate based on pure speculation and stereotypes enforced by the media.

Not sure who you mean. I don't see any "vegan/vegetarian hate" -- but rather a dislike of pretentious people, or of fanatics. Of course, we haven't seen much of that here either. (Hence the comment from keypress about the strawman.)

I guess the trouble with this topic is that there just isn't much to get upset about.

[icymx]

I'm okay with vegetarians. Vegans need to sod off to heck. Vegetarians become as bad as vegans if they support PETA. If you screw up science by saying "we're not meant to eat it" or screw up semantics by saying "meat isn't natural" I will show you all the studies showing that humans are omnivores and tell you the dictionary definition of natural, which is "occurs in nature" and not "is good because humans didn't mess with it".

Basically: you don't shove your organic meat-free beliefs down my throat, I don't shove my pork-based beliefs down your's. And don't join PETA because they support people who firebomb buildings which is kind of a terrorist act. (They actually gave money to this guy who runs that group) Also science is sick of being mauled.

Factory-farmed, growth-hormone-filled animals do not exist in nature. They have been created, and are now depended on, because the meat industry itself is fundamentally unstable.

They say that humans eating meat in general is unnatural; I agree that the meat industry doesn't exist in nature. Meanwhile, scientists agree that humans are omnivores; archaeological records, cell type distribution and structural specializations, our lack of fermenting vats, our hands and jaws, salivary glands, intestinal absorption, and our teeth all say we're omnivores. They say that humans are supposed to be vegetarians because we have some flat teeth and long intestines; there's more evidence for than against us being omnivores.

Not exactly~
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/09/are-humans-carnivores-or-herbivores-2/

Edited by icymx, 31 December 2012 - 09:11 AM.

[NakedPaulToast]

I'm okay with vegetarians. Vegans need to sod off to heck. Vegetarians become as bad as vegans if they support PETA. If you screw up science by saying "we're not meant to eat it" or screw up semantics by saying "meat isn't natural" I will show you all the studies showing that humans are omnivores and tell you the dictionary definition of natural, which is "occurs in nature" and not "is good because humans didn't mess with it".

Basically: you don't shove your organic meat-free beliefs down my throat, I don't shove my pork-based beliefs down your's. And don't join PETA because they support people who firebomb buildings which is kind of a terrorist act. (They actually gave money to this guy who runs that group) Also science is sick of being mauled.

Factory-farmed, growth-hormone-filled animals do not exist in nature. They have been created, and are now depended on, because the meat industry itself is fundamentally unstable.

They say that humans eating meat in general is unnatural; I agree that the meat industry doesn't exist in nature. Meanwhile, scientists agree that humans are omnivores; archaeological records, cell type distribution and structural specializations, our lack of fermenting vats, our hands and jaws, salivary glands, intestinal absorption, and our teeth all say we're omnivores. They say that humans are supposed to be vegetarians because we have some flat teeth and long intestines; there's more evidence for than against us being omnivores.

Not exactly~
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/09/are-humans-carnivores-or-herbivores-2/

So we've been eating the wrong stuff for 2.5 million years.

[Peter Porky]

I think the fact that most people eat meat and vegetables is significant evidence that most people eat meat and vegetables...

[chance]

I think the fact that most people eat meat and vegetables is significant evidence that most people eat meat and vegetables...

Well... you can't beet that logic.

I know... it's terrible. But we need some vegetable puns to lighten up. So if you know any, please lettuce know. I hope some good ones turnip.

[roytheshort]

I know... it's terrible. But we need some vegetable puns to lighten up. So if you know any, please lettuce know. I hope some good ones turnip.

Peas stop with the vegetable puns, they're potato.