Well, this thread is a train wreck. Are we allowed to sell the pieces off as scrap?
Jesus. Channeling Ingrid Newkirk?
Opal, I like you and consider you a friend here, but the Holocaust comparison was completely offensive and disgusting. One of my aunt’s dearest friends is a man who was in Auschwitz.
Fuck that shit.
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No, they are not of the same type. The first is a crime against humanity, the very epitome of human evil. The second is a dead cow. You are perfectly welcome to object to the killing of the cow, but it is incredibly fucking disgusting to equate, in even the slightest way, the book on my shelf with an emblem of the murder of six million people.
2. Your comments to Darwin’s Finch were rude in the extreme, even apart from the misundestanding about the ignore function. Nothing he said to you was anything other than the legitimate questioning of the non-obvious assumptions your OP asked us to make about what it means to be a “vegetarian.” If you don’t want your personal ethos to be open to well-mannered questioning, what the fuck are you doing at this message board?
3.
Bye, Opal.
Let me preface this post by saying that you are totally entitled to have whatever opinion you like about food, books, shoes and whatever else, and you certainly don’t have to justify any of it to me or anyone else, but…
Colour me confused. I have been a “vegetarian” for 12 years. I have friends that are vegetarian to varying degrees, I belong to a vegetarian cooking club. I know quite a few vegetarians.
I don’t actually know any that eschew the use of animal products to the degree that you’re suggesting. I do know 2 vegans that are reluctant to use any sort of animal product, however, vintage books don’t seem to be an issue.
This is not to say that there are NO vegetarians that feel the same way that you do about the issue, but your assertion that there is some sort of vegetarian community “issue” seems a bit far fetched. I’m sure that in your vegetarian community, your friends and peers share your belief - I don’t think it’s fair to extrapolate those beliefs to the vegetarian community as a whole though.
Also, (and you certainly don’t have to justify yourself to me) I’m curious how you can eat eggs, feeling as strongly as you do about the whole animal issue. Eggs are pretty clearly lil baby chickens that never got a chance, which to me is quite nasty.
FYI - I put vegetarian in quotes up above because once in a blue moon I will eat shellfish, which is quite clearly not a vegetable. That being said, the majority of members of my cooking club do not. Additionally, I will cook meat for guests (Never, ever pork - don’t get me started), I just don’t eat it - not really my cup of tea.
Al.
BTW, if I’m not mistaken, didn’t PETA do a project where they collected vintage fur coats and distributed them among the homeless, or the poor?
I can’t help but think that I am that section of track where the rails were just a wee bit too far apart, causing the train to careen into the gully, resulting in the horrific carnage you see before you.
But then, it probably didn’t help that the engineer was drunk…
At least there were survivors, so it wasn’t a total loss.
Okay, I’m a little confused. A vegetarian posts a question relating to “vegetarian ehtics” addressing fellow vegetarians in a forum called “The BBQ Pit?” Does anyone else see the irony here?
If it helps, the thread was orignally in another forum, Cafe Society I think.
I’m going to phrase this as carefully as my little mind will allow, because I don’t want’ to flame anyone.
How do Vegetarians, in general, feel about abortion? After all, if to eat “potential chickens” is wrong, then human abortion is what, exactly?
IANAV, but given that both eggs and human fetuses are deliberately created as food sources for omnivores, the matter is largely about portion control.
No, you’re a fucking idiot. And here’s why:
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I really, really don’t know what to say. Wow. That is the tackiest analogy EVER.
After that stunt, I’m sure the feeling’s mutual, dear.
:walks off in disgust:
Enough shit has been slung.
I’m disgusted with the lot of you.