Morrissey: "I See No Difference Between Eating Meat and Pedophilia"- Page 4
Morrissey: "I See No Difference Between Eating Meat and Pedophilia"
#75oink
Posted: 1/6/14 at 12:27pm
Yeah right Lisa, a wonderful *magical* animal...
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#76oink
Posted: 1/6/14 at 1:09pm
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#77oink
Posted: 1/6/14 at 3:08pmIt's weird how threatened and defensive some people get when faced with a discussion of vegetarianism. And yeah yeah yeah, it's all "those militant PETA people who ruin it" or whatever, but anecdotally, my experience from the years I was vegetarian and vegan showed me that there's a certain brand of meat-eater who seems to make it a point of principle to act like a goddamn asshole about delicious meat is or how they could never do it (even if non one suggested they did) whenever the subject comes up.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#78oink
Posted: 1/6/14 at 3:20pmWell, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#81oink
Posted: 1/6/14 at 10:05pmI actually do not care what people eat at all. And I find myself in these situations where people throw out all those "Well, do you eat…?" questions like I listed above. I try to be discreet and not make a big deal of choosing to eat vegetarian, but like Eric says, people very often leap into a defense of their omnivore eating without me saying a word to them. "Oh I hardly ever eat meat at all. I'm practically vegetarian already" and all I can think is "I don't CARE.' I've never really encountered any proselytizing vegetarians. Vegans, on the other hand, are an entirely different matter. They are almost as bad as people doing the Paleo diet.
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#86oink
Posted: 1/7/14 at 4:58am
I experienced annoying people on both sides... I was 16 when I became vegetarian and a few of my new friends at the time were vegetarian and kept pushing me, telling me constantly how terrible it is to eat meat, meat is murder, don't sing along to this song, because its about vegetarianism... While they did get me thinking about the meat industry, their stupid attitude kept me from having a real discussion about it. When I finally stopped eating meat I didn't tell them for about 6 months, because I didn't want them to feel good about it.
But since then it's been the meat eaters who started most of the conversations, with remarks like, "Vegetarians are so mean, they eat the cows food" or everything Namo and Eric said...
I never try to convince anyone to stop eating meat, if someone asks me I gladly have a discussion and explain my reasons, but I think it is something everyone has to decide for themselves.
#87...
Posted: 1/8/14 at 3:07pm
I have a very "live and let live" attitude toward people's diets. It's not my business unless they're putting themselves in danger by being bulemic/anorexic.
In college I had a friend who was vegetarian and I was cool with it and she was cool with what I ate. No trying to get the other to "switch sides"
On the flip side I had a friend who was a "hardcore" vegan. She wore vegan shoes and verbally attacked anyone who ate meat. Called them "murderers" and such. She'd talk about how much healthier she was than me. She was my roommate on a cruise and would eat at least 2-3 desserts a night. Who's more healthy? The person who had a steak with no dessert or the person who had triple helpings of vegan sushi and three desserts?
Also, those desserts had milk, eggs, and cheese in them. And that pizza she had for lunch - that had animal products on it as well. If you're going to take a "holier than thou" stance it helps to actually be "holier than thou" 
If anyone ever gives you a really hard time about your diet just quote Spock - "In a strict scientific sense, Doctor, we all feed on death - even Vegetarians." Nobody can argue with Spock - who was a vegetarian himself.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
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