Shit! Turns out the girls are English!
On behalf of England, I wish to apologise for sending them to the US.
Especially the one that said a cow asked her for help when she was a kid, and because she couldn’t help her, she became a vegetarian.
I like my women like I like my food…with meat on the bone.
-Miserere
I go for meat…I mean protein…Dam you know what I mean.
Me Solomon Grundy
ProteinPowda, is that you?
[quote]sic 10-52 wrote:
ProteinPowda, is that you?[/quote]
No, that’s Sultry Soy Boy… 
If that were ProteinPowda, he’d never hear the end of it! LOL!
For his sake, I hope it’s not him.
[quote]warriork wrote:
the way i look at it if there is a use for meat, i.e. building muscle, being stronger, etc. then it is not sinful, because there is a purpose for it. This notion by the way is what Native Americans believed in and lived by it, they also offered whatever they ate to god.
P.s. i think this whole notion of eating meat as being sinful or bad is hogwash. What about the trees that we chop everyday to make paper, build houses, and clear land, is that not a living being too? What’s their solution, go back to living in caves, and wear a loincloth?[/quote]
So what determines if something is moral is if it is useful? It may be useful to kill my spouce to get the insurance payment. Accordig to you there is nothing “sinful” about doing this.
No, trees are not sentient beings that can feel pain like animals and humans. I will send you $100 through paypal if you can give me one reason why killing an animal is any less immoral than killing a human. Killing animals IS wrong (if you believe that killing humans is wrong). Do you believe that killing a mentally retarded person is any less wrong than kiling you or me? Just as people in the 19th century thought nothing of treating blacks horribly, so too do they think nothing of treating animals worse in the 21st century. Most of people’s beliefs are not based on logic or reason. If you take a sociology course you will learn that your beliefs are based on the time and place in which you live. The sad truth is there are injustices in the world, and this is just one of them, probably the largest. In reality, people continue to eat meat because it’s what everyone else does, because it tastes good to them and they don’t want to give up their pleasure, because they don’t know how to not eat meat or think that not eating meat will harm them, or because they’re just not the nicest person in the world.
I have been a vegetarian for almost a year and I’ve never felt better, both physically and emotionally. And here’s a bit of info you might not have known–almost every cancer institute and nutritionist recommends the same diet–vegetarian or vegetarian-like. Here’s a quote from the National Cancer Institute: “Consumption of red meat and inadequate folic acid intake have also been associated with increased risk of colon cancer.”
http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/prevention/overview
And btw, most people that lose weight after becoming a vegetarian do so for two reasons: One, meat generally has fat along with it. Since fat contains more than twice the kcal/gram than any other nutrient, cutting some out makes you lose weight. Two, as with any restriction of your diet, unless you put more effort into replacing what you have taken out you will inevitably lose weight.
You realize you’re getting all uppity and bent out of shape on a three month old thread right? That’s why they have date and time stamps on the posts.
-Conor