Poor Veggies. :(

[htid]

Finally, Homo Sapiens are hunter-gatherers, our teeth, digestive system, eye placement, and pretty much everything else are the way they are so we can eat other animals.

Actually, according to wiki, you're wrong about the teeth thing

Predators (such as dogs, cats, or raptors) usually have sharp teeth or claws to tear fresh meat, while plant-eating animals (such as horse and deer) have no sharp teeth or claws to tear meat. Humans occupy a middle ground between the two; they have no claws and mostly blunt teeth (molars) and canine teeth that are not at all suitable for eating raw meat (carnivores have long, sharp, curved, canine teeth while humans and most herbivores have short dull canines)

[chicken]

Well I'm a meat eater and I hardly ever eat Mars bars or related products. I wonder if the percentage of Veggie Mars eaters is (or was now) different to the percentage of Veggies in total...

[blueprint]

I hate when people refer to the old standpoint of Humans having sharp teeth to eat meat.
That may be so, but this argument completely ignores the fact that humans have developed socially much much faster than we have developed physically.
It WAS once okay to eat meat as we were on equal terms with animals. This is no longer the case and we have other, less exploitative options which are healthier and cruelty-free.

[Stewart]

I hate when people refer to the old standpoint of Humans having sharp teeth to eat meat.
That may be so, but this argument completely ignores the fact that humans have developed socially much much faster than we have developed physically.
It WAS once okay to eat meat as we were on equal terms with animals. This is no longer the case and we have other, less exploitative options which are healthier and cruelty-free.

Its no more offensive than you picking and choosing what to eat, with your superior attitude, while millions of Africans stave to death.

Eat your food and be happy you have food to eat.

[Stewart]

Actually, according to wiki, you're wrong about the teeth thing

Wiki rules.

[99Flake]

It WAS once okay to eat meat as we were on equal terms with animals. This is no longer the case and we have other, less exploitative options which are healthier and cruelty-free.

Well we have evolved faster yes but until the cow manages to evolve and put me on his dinner plate (I suspect the growth of an opposable thumb is needed) I will carry one eating my lovely rump steaks!!

[Agent]

It WAS once okay to eat meat as we were on equal terms with animals. This is no longer the case and we have other, less exploitative options which are healthier and cruelty-free.

Was once okay?
Please.
What gives you the right to decide what is, and what isnt right for others to eat?

Just because you dont agree with it, doesnt make it wrong.

If anyone wants to be a veggie, that's up to them. I don't tell them its wrong - no more than they should tell me eating meat is.
Its personal preference.

[Stewart]

What gives you the right to decide what is, and what isn’t right for others to eat?

Duh. He is a vegetarian, didn't you read his post?

Don't you realise that with the genocide in Darfur, the growing nuclear stand off with Iran, the appalling casualties and looming civil war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the millions starving around the world, what REALLY matters is scum like you and me eating sausages.

It’s simple really, when you see it from the veggie point of view. And as he rightly says - it *WAS* ok to eat meat, but that was then, this is now. He made a choice on behalf of the 6.5 billion people on the Earth.

Was nice of him. You could at least say thanks, you ungrateful, cow murdering fiend.

I'm gonna phone PETA up to come and burn your house down.

[malfunction]

Actually, according to wiki, you're wrong about the teeth thing

Predators (such as dogs, cats, or raptors) usually have sharp teeth or claws to tear fresh meat, while plant-eating animals (such as horse and deer) have no sharp teeth or claws to tear meat. Humans occupy a middle ground between the two; they have no claws and mostly blunt teeth (molars) and canine teeth that are not at all suitable for eating raw meat (carnivores have long, sharp, curved, canine teeth while humans and most herbivores have short dull canines)

Not at all suited to eating raw meat? I've had steak tartare before and had little trouble chewing it (much to the disgust of those I was having dinner with). I probably couldn't chew through elephant skin (I doubt it would stand still long enough) but on the same note I doubt I could bite into a coconut... Doesn't mean I can't eat it though!

[htid]

Not at all suited to eating raw meat? I've had steak tartare before and had little trouble chewing it (much to the disgust of those I was having dinner with). I probably couldn't chew through elephant skin (I doubt it would stand still long enough) but on the same note I doubt I could bite into a coconut... Doesn't mean I can't eat it though!

lol tell the person who wrote the wiki article not me

And Stewart, maybe people are dieing in Darfur and Iraq etc, but as I've said before on here, it depends what you value most. I know very few if anyone will agree with me, but I value an animals life above a humans life, therefore to me it's worse for someone to eat meat than it is to murder a human.

But that's just my opinion on the matter, however wrong it is.

*edit* OK maybe it's not worse to eat meat than murder a human, since you're not killing the animal, but still, you get my point

[Stewart]

I value an animals life above a humans life

If that isn't a joke, then frankly, its appaling.

[htid]

If that isn't a joke, then frankly, its appaling.

Oh well, like I care. Humans mess up the planet, don't remember animals doing that. End of my part in this anyway, there's nothing more to say about that subject.

[directhex]

murder is delicious!

[htid]

murder is delicious!

Specially with a nice bit of HP brown sauce eh!

[Stewart]

Mate, you can't say you value the life of a chicken over that of a human, and then make a brown sauce quip.

This forum is getting kerazy.

[htid]

Mate, you can't say you value the life of a chicken over that of a human, and then make a brown sauce quip.

This forum is getting kerazy.

haha it's not the forum, it's just me, I have some weird veiws and attitudes about stuff, no clue why, and I wish I knew!