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Gliesen_Antrho
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19 Jun 2009, 6:36 am

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Because pigs are Polish and cats are German, right? (Maus reference)

Not read Maus. I just don't like cats.

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19 Jun 2009, 6:44 am

Gliesen_Antrho wrote:

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Because pigs are Polish and cats are German, right? (Maus reference)

Not read Maus. I just don't like cats.

The author of Maus is Art Spiegelmann. His father, Vladek Spiegelmann survived the Holocaust and throughout the books one gets to learn about both the old Vladek living in America and the young Vladek trying to survive in the concentration camps. What's unusual is that Art Spiegelmann takes his father's stories and turn them into a cartoonish shape, where Jews are shown as mouses, Germans as cats and Polish as pigs. Hence the name Maus. I suggest you read it sometime.

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19 Jun 2009, 6:50 am

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I had a teacher who called herself a vegetarian who eats chicken.

Then that is just a selective diet. A chicken will still process food in the same way, in one end, bit of churning and filtering in the middle and the rest thrown out the back.

I keep seeing a reference to to humans being "carnivores" this would mean an elevated risk of the lack of vitamins that vegetables/fruits provide. People are omnivores, not carnivore or herbivore.

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19 Jun 2009, 2:07 pm

I'm vegetarian and I despise meat, however I never tell anyone else that they shouldn't eat it. Y'know, it's my choice not theirs. I get dead pissy if people tell me what to do (hence the reason I left the Catholic church!). Also, it is my opinion that veganism sucks. I am technically not a vegan but I am intolerant to cows milk and products containing even small amounts of lactose so I am sort of a vegan. I CAN'T imagine cutting out eggs, other types of milk/cheeses (I can have goat and sheep cheese) or honey out of my diet! I would end up being a nothingatarian! Don't hate veggies, just the ones that preach!

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19 Jun 2009, 5:24 pm

Henriksson wrote:

Gliesen_Antrho wrote:

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Because pigs are Polish and cats are German, right? (Maus reference)

Not read Maus. I just don't like cats.

Is that the comic?
I keep wanting to buy it and then I forget to do so.

The chicken eating teacher would be, I believe, a pollotarian. Though the word isn't recognised by spell checker or dictionary.com.

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20 Jun 2009, 3:11 am

I'm ok with people who simply don't like meat. There are plenty of things I don't like simply because I don't like them. It's when they don't eat meat because "oh, those poor tortured animals!" that I have a problem and want to slap them with a wet trout (which a lot of vegetarians would eat, because apparently fish aren't animals to them?).

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20 Jun 2009, 4:09 am

Meat is disgusting! I really hate the texture of it so very rarely eat it. Eating is already bothersome enough without having to chew for ages just to feed my stupid demanding body.

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20 Jun 2009, 6:16 am

When I eat what omnivores I am sometimes told by them that they feel as if they are offending me. I tell them the same thing "Why? I don't have to eat it. I'm not criticising anyone. It doesn't bother me"

Maybe they think all Veggies are preachers?

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20 Jun 2009, 7:34 am

I don't have a problem with vegetarians and vegans who don't bother others. My problem is with the vegetarians and vegans who try to discourage me from eating meat because there is supposedly something wrong with it, even though I need to eat meat for health reasons :roll:

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20 Jun 2009, 7:48 am

When my vegetarian brother still lived at home he wouldn't let me cook any meat in our chip fryer
Now I'm just not allowed because it ruins the oil. What I don't get is how he's a vegetarian and I eat deep fried food but he's the fat brother. Doesn't make much sense
And that's the end of my story.

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21 Jun 2009, 8:40 pm

I had a prof who informed us on the first day of classes that he learned when he moved to Alberta that being a vegetarian in Alberta means you only eat beef three times a week. :twisted:

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21 Jun 2009, 8:57 pm

i have been vegetarian since 1976 and vegan since 1999. what drives me crazy is folks who say they could never kill animals and that hunting and fishing is disgusting and they hate hunters and fisherfolk but they still eat animals...
i mean, whether you kill it yourself or buy it wrapped in styrofoam and plastic, it's still a dead animal you're eating no matter how much one wants to pretend otherwise ....might as well do the slaughter yourself and be honest about the killing.

may all beings be free from suffering.

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22 Jun 2009, 11:19 pm

I haven't had a vegetarian or vegan push their dietary beliefs on me so far.

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23 Jun 2009, 9:28 am

I don't have a problem with vegetarians at all.

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25 Jun 2009, 2:02 am

ptown wrote:

Unless the person is a complete a**hole, and unfortunately some are, hunting hardly involves suffering. I've made sure that every animal I've shot died as quickly and painlessly as possible. If I thought I was likely to wound the animal and have it run off, I didn't take the shot. I don't believe in making them suffer, but I do believe that we are intended to eat them.

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28 Jun 2009, 10:52 am

I'm vegetarian, but I don't try to force it on others

If they want to eat meat, then eat meat, I just don't like industrialised meat farms, it is ridiculous, people should learn how to run a farm properly, or not run one at all

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