This is the reason I do not support PETA. I have no idea how many of its members are Vegan, or even Vegetarian, but I’m positive is not many. I recently met this girl who claims to be an animal activist, I mentioned something to her about eating meat and she flipped out on me. I think she may be a little psycho anyway, but come on people. If u care at all about animals how can you justify eating them?? Its so hypocritical to say puppies and kittens are worth saving yet calves and piglets aren’t. Get a freaking clue. I know its hard to make the connection between your pet and an animal you’ve never met, but it’s not so far fetched. I guarantee if more people were around farm animals and saw that they too have their own personalities, likes and dislikes, that they couldn’t justify eating them any more. Because they taste good isn’t a good enough reason to do what we do to them. WE HAVE NO NUTRITIONAL NEED FOR ANIMAL FLESH OR SECRETIONS. None! So to eat them is merely for pleasure, yes I once ate steaks, bacon, cheese sauces, and yes I enjoyed them, but I’ve learned what happens to them and how selfish I was being by eating them. This girl briefly spoke with wouldn’t even give me a chance to tell my side. I simply was making a statement about her supporting animals yet eating them. She informed me she didn’t eat them any more (which I think she was lying), but she’s not vegan because that’s too extreme. I don’t understand what’s so extreme about it? Which leads me to believe she doesn’t really have a clue what it means to be vegan, like many people. But I tried talking to her, I wanted to tell her I wasn’t trying to convert her or anything. In fact I commended her on her compassion for animals. I mistakenly thought we were fighting for the same cause, and wanted to shre that with her, but I see I was wrong. Unfortunately its because of people like her that the animals continue to suffer. People like her make people like me seem ‘extreme’ As long as vegetarians continue to ignore the suffering in their milk and egg products, the suffering will still exist.
{Saturday, December 8, 2007} Vegetarians or hypocrites?
Don’t you think that vegetarians are more like half-assed allies than outright enemies? I am offended by the title of your latest blog. Rank these breakfasts from best to worst on a scale of suffering and death: (a) eggs and toast, (b) toast and fruit, and (c) bacon and eggs. Is the vegetarian closer to your ideal than the meat-eater? Why is the vegetarian the enemy? The title “Vegetarians: the enemy” makes me want to barbeque a piglet.
I’m sorry u feel that way. I don’t understand why as a vegetarian u would have the urge to barbeque a pig for any reason. that only hurts the pig, not me. the thing is your eggs have just as much suffering as the bacon. I’m just sick of vegetarians calling vegans ‘extreme’ because they don’t want to give up eggs and dairy. how many undercover videos have u seen on what they do to the egg laying hens? its horrifying, i cry my eyes out. yes, I suppose u should be commended on being able to see the obvious suffering in meat products. but its because of milk and cheese that we have veal. i titled this the way i did because its vegetarians that will say, “oh I don’t eat meat, but I’m not vegan, they take it too far”. if anyone isn’t eating meat for ethical reasons they need to reexamine why they’re eating eggs and dairy. if they give up meat for health reasons they need to realize dairy products are just as bad health wise, perhaps in different ways, but never the less extremely unhealthy. I truly am sorry if I’ve offended you. I know you, and I know you are a great person. I just think it’s a little hypocritical to eat some animal products and not others when they all cause suffering. To be honest the person who triggered this blog is some psycho who claims to be an animal activist but gives no thought what so ever to the animals on her plate. When I questioned her about it she flipped out on me. I thought we were on the same side, fighting for animals, and she tried to discredit me and put me down in every way she could just because I questioned her ethical motivation. I wasn’t trying to ‘convert’ her I was merely asking a question. What if I change the title. Instead of reading ‘the enemy’ I’ll say something about being hypocrites. Does that still make u want to harm an innocent pig?
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Thats ok, most people don’t.
i strongly dislike people like you who think your better than others.
Atleast we vegeterians try.
We are helping the world and animals.
Ok i might consume milk and eggs right now but in a few years i plan to go vegan. But being a vegeterian is still helpful to the enviroment and to animals. Yes i admit drinkin milk from tortured cows is still bad and eating eggs from tortured chickens is not good, but atleast we try!
Becoming vegan is hard that’s why i decide to become a vegeterian first and later a vegan. But you can’t judge or say that our fellow vegeterian friends are the enemy since they are still doing something good, and saving atleast 100 animals per year.
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Mary,
I do not think I’m better than anyone, but I do have a right to my own opinion just as u do. I think its great vegetarians can help animals by not eating their flesh. But its also sad that because something seems too hard no one does it. just because something is easy doesn’t mean its the right thing to do. If your vegetarian for ethical reasons its extremely hypocritical to continue to eat their secretions. Disagree with me all you want but you know what I’m saying is true, you yourself are planning to go vegan, unfortunately its on your schedule and animals will continue to suffer for u until you’re ready. I completely understand you not liking ‘people like me’ because I’m calling you out on your ethics and morals, but is it fair to blame your anger on me when your the one not living in accordance with your beliefs? Thanks for sharing
well olf!
you are really quite the writer! you present the case powerfully and your responses to the gallery thorough and considerate, yet uncompromising. i’m glad i dropped by.
in friendship,
prad
prad
Thanks so much stop by any time and feel free to disagree!
PETA are totaly unreasonible and hypotcrits and for every dollar donated to them they only spend 1 cent for real animal welfare the rest gose to produce trashy propeganda and for them to run around in stupid protests wearing silly costumes and the hire the usial hollywood suckers especialy dull wits like PAMELA ANDERSON and throw big parties acting like the complete idiots they are i mean if the animals ever saw PETA comming they had better run for cover
I was watching a episode of CLASSIC STAR TREK where SPOCK said I A SENSE WE ALL FEED OFF OF DEATH EVEN VEGETARIANS and the fact was that ADOLPH HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN
lol. interesting point. the thing is ur kind of right. we cant be 100% vegan unless we’re dead. but we can make choices in the mean time that reflect the least amount of harm. I’d reather eat a dead carrot that doenst feel pain when it’s killed than a dead pig that runs and screams in pain as its throat is slit. hitler was a smart man, evil but smart. if he didnt have such a strong group of followers he wouldn’t have been able to murder so may innocent people. kind of like the meat and dairy industry. there is no one person to blame, everyone has to take responsibilty for thier part.
Read about a incedent where a bunch released a couple of seals that were in the EXXON VALDIZE incedent the bands were playing the people cheer then to the horror of all there a killer whale came along and ate them both too bad they must have been watching FREE WILLIE too many times thats what those critters do when their hungry
Very interesting, thanks for sharing, i have no idea what you’re talking about though.
Hi!,
HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN
Hitler was a vegetarian… yea, what’s your point? he was also one man, without all his followers he wouldn’t have had so much power. so i guess that makes him a healthy evil genius.
Hitler was not only a vegetarian but he was a big time envoromentalists he was into the new age mystacism that many of these eco-freaks are into and he wanted to rewild all of north and south america and parts or europe YES HITLER WAS A ECO-FREAK