![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I don't get it.
Feb. 18th, 2014 01:18 amI’m always confused when I try to understand the kind of vegans that are that way for “ethical” reasons. I myself was a vegetarian for 10 years because factory farms are disgusting and cause diseases to form in animals that move on to humans. I had to give it up because no matter what combo of things I tried to eat, I was eating every 30 minutes and getting hungry again, and it was frustrating. My body just can’t process plant protein at all. Even fish and eggs aren’t enough.
But back on point: yes, factory farms are disgusting and encourage all kinds of horrendous diseases. But vegans don’t even eat free range meat, which doesn’t have the same problems as factory farms, and I just don’t understand why they don’t. They claim “ethics,” which makes no sense to me. What exactly is unethical about eating animals? Especially the animals we usually eat: they are all herbivores. How is eating an herbivore unethical? They’re fucking stupid animals, they’re not much more intelligent than eggplants or a sponge. I don’t understand how I’m supposed to feel sad eating something that is basically little more than a moving vegetable. And claiming they have feelings is just ludicrous. Yes, it is true, but plants have been found to have feelings too. A plant doesn’t want to die any more than a cow does. Am I supposed to feel sad eating broccoli, too? Well I’m not. You wanna be weird by eating nothing but lettuce and seaweed, go right on ahead. But if you judge me for eating meat, I WILL fuck your shit up.
Okay, I suppose pigs are a little smarter than average given that they’re omnivores, but still not intelligent enough for me to give a shit. They’re not humans. Unless it’s poisonous, diseased, or inedible, it’s food, and I am not going to feel any more sad eating a giant steak than I would eating a goddamn stick of celery.
The vegans will argue that we don’t eat cats and dogs, we keep those as pets. So what? I’ll eat any animal if I’m hungry enough. If I’m starving, and there’s a dog - even a pet of mine (which would never happen because I don’t like dogs) - then I am gonna eat it. He would eat me if he had half a chance, so why not? Life feeds on life. Living things kill and eat other living things. You’re entitled to your opinion that it’s better to eat nothing but plants, and I am entitled to my opinion that doing so shows you have the emotional maturity of a toddler.
I could never be hungry enough to eat cats, though; they’re nothing but skin, bone, sinew, and dark matter. Also would never eat rats or pigeons because that’d be like drinking out of an unflushed toilet full of shit and piss when thirsty.
Oh, and I also would never eat dolphins, because I’m convinced that they are at least as intelligent as humans, if not more so, and the only reason they haven’t built houses and cities is because A. They don’t need to. B. If they tried, their efforts would be somewhat hindered by the fact that they live underwater.
And by the way, if you don’t like what you’ve just read, I don’t give a shit. This is posted to my own personal blog space, and if you’ve run across this post it isn’t my fault. So if you disagree with me, keep your worthless opinion to yourself.
But back on point: yes, factory farms are disgusting and encourage all kinds of horrendous diseases. But vegans don’t even eat free range meat, which doesn’t have the same problems as factory farms, and I just don’t understand why they don’t. They claim “ethics,” which makes no sense to me. What exactly is unethical about eating animals? Especially the animals we usually eat: they are all herbivores. How is eating an herbivore unethical? They’re fucking stupid animals, they’re not much more intelligent than eggplants or a sponge. I don’t understand how I’m supposed to feel sad eating something that is basically little more than a moving vegetable. And claiming they have feelings is just ludicrous. Yes, it is true, but plants have been found to have feelings too. A plant doesn’t want to die any more than a cow does. Am I supposed to feel sad eating broccoli, too? Well I’m not. You wanna be weird by eating nothing but lettuce and seaweed, go right on ahead. But if you judge me for eating meat, I WILL fuck your shit up.
Okay, I suppose pigs are a little smarter than average given that they’re omnivores, but still not intelligent enough for me to give a shit. They’re not humans. Unless it’s poisonous, diseased, or inedible, it’s food, and I am not going to feel any more sad eating a giant steak than I would eating a goddamn stick of celery.
The vegans will argue that we don’t eat cats and dogs, we keep those as pets. So what? I’ll eat any animal if I’m hungry enough. If I’m starving, and there’s a dog - even a pet of mine (which would never happen because I don’t like dogs) - then I am gonna eat it. He would eat me if he had half a chance, so why not? Life feeds on life. Living things kill and eat other living things. You’re entitled to your opinion that it’s better to eat nothing but plants, and I am entitled to my opinion that doing so shows you have the emotional maturity of a toddler.
I could never be hungry enough to eat cats, though; they’re nothing but skin, bone, sinew, and dark matter. Also would never eat rats or pigeons because that’d be like drinking out of an unflushed toilet full of shit and piss when thirsty.
Oh, and I also would never eat dolphins, because I’m convinced that they are at least as intelligent as humans, if not more so, and the only reason they haven’t built houses and cities is because A. They don’t need to. B. If they tried, their efforts would be somewhat hindered by the fact that they live underwater.
And by the way, if you don’t like what you’ve just read, I don’t give a shit. This is posted to my own personal blog space, and if you’ve run across this post it isn’t my fault. So if you disagree with me, keep your worthless opinion to yourself.
