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Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:56:32 GMT
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> From: "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com>
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> I can comfortably say I will NEVER stop eating meat (barring an accident that
> keeps
> me from chewing/swallowing food, or meat being outlawed). I don't care if it
> is
> "needed" or not, I LIKE it, I am an omnivore.
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> I also feel that people shouldn't force their likes on another - so if a veg
> starts
> bugging me about meat, I stop the conversation right there with something
> along the
> lines of "I am an omnivore, you will not change my mind, and I'm not going to
> avoid
> meat in this meal just to make you happy". I don't bug them about NOT eating
> meat
> unless they start bugging me about eating it (and you know, too many
> vegetarians
> try to convert people, it's annoying (especially WHILE TRYING TO EAT!). I
> know
> many that DON'T, and I like them a lot better than the ones that do).
>
> > Agreed on all points. Especially that taking the moral high road is fun.
>
> YOU may think so, but I sure don't - especially while digging into a 16 oz
> steak at
> Outback ;-)
I'm right there with you, Tom. A good friend of mine is a vegetarian because
of the whole cruelty-to-animals thing. Every once in a while I ask him why
he wears leather. He never has come up with any kind of sensible response.
OTOH, I don't think I could kill an animal myself. So my hyocrisy is at
another level from my friend's.
I eat meat 'cause it's yummy, and I assuage my guilt by adopting dogs from
the pound instead of buying them from a breeder. It's not perfect, but it
works for me.
~Mark
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