The Drifter
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I've drunk a few cheap beers.
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DiscoLad said:Eating some cookies.
and gummy worms.
Montana Smith said:Are you sure that's a gummy worm?
Mickiana said:XanaduMel, possible diabetes? Refer to my dietary schedule on the previous page. It's not easy, but it works. And if you are vegetarian on some days, no problem, eggs and nuts are a good source of protein.
Are those back again? You're talking at McDonald's right?Lonsome_Drifter said:Ate a McRib last night. Love those damn things.
Finn said:Not to hijack this thread or anything, but I must say that vegetarianism and veganism are two concepts I've never understood. Don't get me wrong, I can perfectly understand the moral reasoning most people employ, but it still doesn't hold against the fact that refusing to eat meat is... plain unnatural.
We're nature-createn (or God-createn, if that's what floats your boat) omnivores, meaning that evolutionary process has shaped our diets to consist of both flora AND fauna. In the order of nature, a human being is a predator and in order to stay healthy, we need the proteins granted by eating the flesh of other creatures. Sure, there's artificial products and stuff like tofu that can supplement those nutrients not gained by naturally eating meat, but to me, that sounds like nothing more than an admission to the fact.
And yeah, I'm also aware that we still do plenty other things that are plain unnatural, like drive cars, live in artificially-constructed houses or wear clothes which is all something no other animal does. But while we use artificial things to protect and comfort our outsides, our insides still pretty much the same when we first took our first steps on just two legs. Unless they develop a way to replace our digestive systems with plastic tubes that fully support a herbivorous diet, meat is what we must eat.
Before somebody walks in and says that herbivorous behavior is the way to save our human race considering this planet we live on isn't really equipped to support a predatory species as populous as the mankind, I must say I'm aware of that too. But herbivorism isn't a solution to that problem either. You resort to that, you're doing things bass-ackwards and curing symptoms instead of the cause. We don't need to stop being what we are. We simply need to control the rate which we reproduce. Because if we don't, this planet will do it for us... in a way that's way more unpleasant both to it and for us.
Finn said:I can perfectly understand the moral reasoning most people employ [for choosing not to eat meat]...
Montana Smith said:As a challenge I decided not to eat any more meat, but stick to fish instead.
DiscoLad said:Why here, Finn? Why not Open Discussion.
Personal preference, not a moral choice. That's something I can dig. I don't put stuff in my mouth either if it disgusts me.Montana Smith said:Taste and association.
What I was about to type next.Gear said:Fish is a meat.
Gear said:Fish is a meat.
Finn said:Personal preference, not a moral choice. That's something I can dig. I don't put stuff in my mouth either if it disgusts me.
Finn said:My jab was mostly aimed at those green souls who resort to herbivorism because they wish to do their part in "saving the world" or "get closer to the nature", while in fact, by denying our predatorous ancestry they're in fact detracting themselves from it.
Finn said:But I better stop ranting, since I'm going royally off-topic here. Hmm, or is it topic progression? Your call.
Indeed. And the more long-lasting solution to this atrocity is the mathematical "less humans eating less meat", not the moral "more humans eating less meat".Mickiana said:I've seen first hand the kill room of one of the southern hemisphere's largest abattoirs and it is confronting. It is sickening and frightening.
Gear said:Coz your mom's so fat, she favorited this thread.