Those who mock vegetarians and vegans should read up on factory farms. Reading just a couple such books (Omnivore’s Dilemma and Animal Factory; Eating Animals, which I’m reading now, blows both of those away) quickly turned me from a meat-loving omnivore to someone who is primarily vegan. Factory farms, which produce almost all of the meat that you’ll find in stores and restaurants, are environmental disasters, destroy family farms, devastate surrounding property values, create health risks for those who eat the meat, spread and significantly intensify disease, and subject animals to torturous conditions. Being able to buy chicken for 99 cents a pound comes at an incredible cost. If you must eat meat (and virtually no human MUST eat meat - it’s a choice), choose only meat that is raised by humane, sustainable, traditional means. If you don’t know where your meat came from, don’t eat it.
Oh, yeah, and taste tests have consistenly shown that humanely-raised meat actually tastes better (the animals are healthier and happier, which makes them tastier), and healthy animals which are fed only what they would eat naturally are also much more nutritious (a hormone-free, grass-fed cow yields meat that is comparable in omega-3 and -6 fatty acids to farm-raised salmon).
Eldo, I made 53 this past December and I used to read Pogo in the papers. Of course I learned to read at age 3. Got my smarts from my mom who was valedictorian of her high school class, got my common sense from mom and dad, and technical abilities from my dad. Best of both worlds.
leakysqueaky712 over 13 years ago
I don’t think there is any such thing as a “southern vegan”
Charles Evans Premium Member over 13 years ago
Yankee pot roast is his favorite.
leakysqueaky712 over 13 years ago
We iz fried chicken folks down here!!!!!!!
Superfrog over 13 years ago
I was always better at geography than ethics.
Actually, if it wasn’t for ‘Star Trek’, I wouldn’t know anything about Vegans.
John9 over 13 years ago
What would a vegan zombie eat?
fishbulb239 over 13 years ago
Nice one, RCMinor!
Those who mock vegetarians and vegans should read up on factory farms. Reading just a couple such books (Omnivore’s Dilemma and Animal Factory; Eating Animals, which I’m reading now, blows both of those away) quickly turned me from a meat-loving omnivore to someone who is primarily vegan. Factory farms, which produce almost all of the meat that you’ll find in stores and restaurants, are environmental disasters, destroy family farms, devastate surrounding property values, create health risks for those who eat the meat, spread and significantly intensify disease, and subject animals to torturous conditions. Being able to buy chicken for 99 cents a pound comes at an incredible cost. If you must eat meat (and virtually no human MUST eat meat - it’s a choice), choose only meat that is raised by humane, sustainable, traditional means. If you don’t know where your meat came from, don’t eat it.
Oh, yeah, and taste tests have consistenly shown that humanely-raised meat actually tastes better (the animals are healthier and happier, which makes them tastier), and healthy animals which are fed only what they would eat naturally are also much more nutritious (a hormone-free, grass-fed cow yields meat that is comparable in omega-3 and -6 fatty acids to farm-raised salmon).
ilsapadu over 13 years ago
They like meat, they eat bwanz.
Coyoty Premium Member over 13 years ago
john9 said, What would a vegan zombie eat?
In *The Wizard of Oz”, the wizard made the scarecrow brains out of bran cereal, so probably that. “Brannnns… Brannnns…”
S_T_F_U over 13 years ago
I consider fried chicken to be a vegetable
unclebatty over 13 years ago
As one might suspect, Eldo, from your avatar!
MisngNOLA over 13 years ago
Eldo, I made 53 this past December and I used to read Pogo in the papers. Of course I learned to read at age 3. Got my smarts from my mom who was valedictorian of her high school class, got my common sense from mom and dad, and technical abilities from my dad. Best of both worlds.