Thanksgiving arrives every year with a heated debate over how to best cook that plump and juicy turkey. But the idea of a tofu turkey (also known as a “tofurkey”) has gone from a joke a couple years ago to a reality for many. While vegetarianism has been practiced for over a thousand years in some countries, it is a relatively new concept in the West. And so, with the question cropping up more and more often, should we eat meat?
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It's not sustainable
Eating meat is not sustainable?
"Eating meat is not sustainable"? What does that mean?
"Meat eaters= gross polluters." LOL thats that funniest thing i've ever heard on the internet .
What won't we be able to sustain? Eating meat? Meat is a HUGE part of our global economy . PERIOD. It's not going away any time soon. I'd expect to hear this kind of "unsustainable" crap about oil and pollution, but not meat eating.
Are we overpopulating? Well, if you mean there are more people on this earth than ever before, you're right! But thats like being surprised when you put bacteria in a warm, moist, sugary space and getting all worked up because the bacteria are multiplying - you're just stating the obvious.
So if we are indeed "overpopulating" (which is relative in it's own right)... why don't you... sterilize yourself, or better yet, don't have kids .
Carbon footprint? You realize that carbon is an essential gas? Its up there with water and oxygen. Funny, you will rant about how we should all eat vegetables, but in the same breath you want to REDUCE THE GAS THAT VEGETABLES BREATH. Thats like saying "man, I really need to plant more tomatoes in my garden" while you light bags of tomato seeds on fire.
Carbon Dioxide also increases PRIOR to climate warming. Correlation does not constitute Causation! GORES " global warming " theories have been proven wrong over and over again, so why is it now just politicians and fake wannabe "liberals" who are proposing carbon footprint tracking and taxation? Because they are a bunch of power hungry, petty thieves. With good hearts in the wrong place.
Oh, and back to your original claim - That meat eaters somehow are "gross polluters", first of all, thats hypocritical, because i'll bet you drive a car, and those veggies you eat? Well those fields are most likely tilled by TRACTORS, and oh, they probably slaughter pigs + cows in the next field. And what about all the oil burned shipping these veggies? You're a Hypocrite.
I'm not assuming that you are proposing a government plan, but I am assuming that you wouldn't be opposed to a plan which restricts meat consumption and/or awards those who eat/produce veggies. If this is the case, you are advocating the THEFT of my hard earned money to feed your own cause, which is immoral and unacceptable.
This claim that meat eating causes pollution is UNFOUNDED and a testament to show how far people are willing to let the government go when it comes to restricting our basic freedoms. Show some class, dude.
- aone
July 29, 2009 5:49PM
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