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I was a vegetarian for 25 years, there is no such thing as a vegan, we MUST consume animal products to survive, either eggs or dairy. Vegans really do not exist.
I was a vegetarian because I grew up in a remote area and I knew animals (not in the biblical sense), and it's just terrible to think they are being created to be killed, however after a point, you realize they are being created at all. Killing an animal is just horrible. I'm not in the area of being separated fr (some text omitted to shorten quote...) learly individuals with there own peronsalities, and it seems evil to kill them. They trust you. I might slip into being vegetarian again. It doesn't make a difference though, but I do not like killing but everything dies. It is really a conundrum. My struggle with morality makes me human. Most people don't have this struggle, and I honestly question if I live among humans. They are entirely untroubled by evil from killing a cow to killing 800,000 people in Iraq.. I must be in hell.
When I walk the babies every day in the hood and I hear the fucking dogs growl, bark and charge behind the wooden fences (and sometimes across the street just a few feet away), which have more holes than swiss cheese, I salivate at the idea of shooting and serving them for dinner. No more cute dog stories. Animals in the wild would eat you instantly if they needed food. Including chicken. It's nature's cycle. At the end of the day worms eat us, with pleasure. The farmer who knows how to raise and kill chickens is living closer to nature and the natural order than any peta freak.
When I did dog fostering and rescue I was the sucker of the group, and took in the most broken animals. The two I kept, were basically what nobody wanted.
PETA is bullshit. All they do is beg for money to supposedly fix a problem, when they have no intention of fixing the problem. 100% of the expenses are in advertisement. They don't have shelters, they don't push for alternative research, they are entirely cynical. They do nothing useful at all.
When I had my dogs, they just would want to meet you. They both started out with bad lives, and I sheltered them. Once I got them, they believed that every human being was a nice person that loved them, because that's all I allowed them to meet.
You argue this is "nature's cycle". You can have it. I want out of it.
But I agree it's not strictly necessary as long as you're vegetarian, not vegan.
mell says
But I agree it's not strictly necessary as long as you're vegetarian, not vegan.
There's no such thing as a vegan. They are as real as breatharians. You must consume some animal products. You cannot get B12 any other way.
You argue this is "nature's cycle". You can have it. I want out of it.
I HATE the term 'vegan' and never use it to describe what I eat.
Having said that, changing to a nutritionally rich, plant based diet saved my life 15 years ago. I had a very serious heart condition that traditional medicine gave me 'at best 1-3 years' to live. Obviously, I'm still here, so I'd say it worked!
richwicks says
You argue this is "nature's cycle". You can have it. I want out of it.
In time, Don't rush it.
I'm well aware. There's people that revel in life, I feel I'm stuck in a nightmare of non thinking human beings, if they are even human. I'm not only constantly gaslit by my government and media, I can deal with that, but I have to hear it from neighbors and friends. "The unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated" - 90% of the population accepts this without question. I know a woman that was vaccinated, got covid, and got a booster because she "didn't want to go through that again".
I mean. ???????? Is this is a human being I'm talking with. Can't they logic?
I had to painfully point out that if the previous vaccination didn't prevent the disease, a booster wouldn't.
I fucking hate television. I need to stop associating with people that have that goddamned propaganda panel in their home.
TV has useful features. It was meant to provide entertainment. It's valuable for babies to occasionally put on a baby Einstein show or so to keep them at bay. It's good for streaming movies or shows occasionally. Just not to get news or any reliable information, just fiction/entertainment.
There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.
And he was absolutely correct in that. It's poison. It distorts the mind. Consider any sitcom television show, you wouldn't laugh at the person or be silent, you'd likely beat them to death. Television is what tells us everything from what is socially acceptable, to what we should want and own, to what wars we should support. It's the worst invention ever, but it didn't need to be, but that was what it was turned into.
I'm telling you, it's a poison.
TV has useful features. It was meant to provide entertainment.
mell says
TV has useful features. It was meant to provide entertainment.
Correct -just like movies, sports arenas, and live theater. After all, TV is just a way to get movies, newsreels, sports, and theater into your home. Good or bad depends on content.
mell says
But I agree it's not strictly necessary as long as you're vegetarian, not vegan.
There's no such thing as a vegan. They are as real as breatharians. You must consume some animal products. You cannot get B12 any other way.
I’ve been eating bacon every morning for a year and a half.
My BP is down to 120/78.
Screw “modern nutrition!”
I do eat a fair bit of veg and fruit.
I'll go through a more painful death than them, certainly. Well, unless I commit suicide.
richwicks says
I'll go through a more painful death than them, certainly. Well, unless I commit suicide.
Why? You could die in your sleep, still happens to some these days
The older I get, if I was still a Catholic, the more I think this is just purgatory. Rationally, I'm a materialist, and I consider myself a meat robot - that my brain creates this concept of a "permanent self" and that doesn't exist, it's just an illusion
How do you explain your self-consciousness and that of others, clearly distinct? Why are you you?
No, they woke up, worked and ate when they got done. Or they died.
WookieMan says
No, they woke up, worked and ate when they got done. Or they died.
No, they made their own schedule.
If they wanted to sit at 11 and eat for an hour and half, they did that. Then worked till the sun went down. No boss, no clock. If they felt like sitting down and smoking a pipe or cigar, they did that, "You already had your 15 minute break, Amos." bullshit.
Life before Carnegie and Taylorism for most.
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"Bananas heal almost every disease known to man....
I usually eat mung beans with granola every 2nd Friday....
You know how great a plant based diet is? I sleep 10 hours a day now, when I was a meat eater...
I don't know why my Calico Whiskers keeps needing to go to the vet for dehydration, I force feed her 2 beets a day...
Farting incessantly is a sign of maximal digestive health, the stinkier the better..."
That's the same reason Pride sucks. Just replace Bananas, Mung Beans, and Granola with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE). And Trans Kids. And dudes claiming to be women with thick beards, Adam's Apples, and 1970s late disco era garish makeup.