"We enslave, torture, and murder billions of cows, pigs, and chickens every year and nobody bats an eye. A dog is forced to swim for a scene in a movie and everyone loses their fucking minds."
Oh please.....
That quote is from yet another Vegan "activist" on Reddit hijacking a thread to draw yet another false equivalency to make a ridiculous point.
That being of course, the evils of factory farming somehow not rising to level of someone who beats up a dog.
I'm sorry if I offend anyone with this but dammit....
I'm sick of half-baked, half-assed activists whose only goal in life it seems is to make everyone else feel miserable.
So thank you Veggie Nazi, you've given me inspiration.
Since there never seems to be a separation for you people let's just make the assumption that you feel all meat is bad and we're all going to hell for eating any of it.
Regardless of whether or not it's "factory farmed."
Now, let's talk about those beleaguered chickens, cows and pigs shall we?
Yes, they're animals and yes I wouldn't be a very good butcher because they have eyes and would look at me. If I had to do the deed to save my life, I'd likely starve to death. The prospect of reducing one to it's constituent products is not something this society has raised me to deal with.
That stems mostly from the fact that I was born into a world with indoor plumbing and something other than animal skins and fig leaf jockstraps.
Let me be clear having said that. That's no excuse for inhumane treatment of any living thing but let's get real here. These keyboard ninjas swilling their fat-free smoothies and soy milk treat anyone that's ever visited a drive-thru like they were Jeffrey Dahmer.
Let's get this straight....
There's no such thing as a Free Range Chicken. I mean really....
Do you think there's some golden, sunlit valley somewhere teaming with cackling hens dancing around crystal streams where they live out their happy days to a ripe old age?
BS, they'd all starve to death in a week.
They wander around aimlessly pecking the ground cackling and crapping. Most of the time simultaneously. They're dirty, ill tempered and unpleasant.
Pigs aren't much better. It's been said that they supposedly have the mental equivalent of a 3 year old human child.
Which explains the general hygiene of most 3 year old's.
Beef cattle, much like Chickens, exist to be eaten. They, like Chickens, spend most of their day wandering around aimlessly grazing and crapping. Without much regard for either other than continuing the acts.
I suppose identifying with 1000 pounds of manure factory is someone's idea of bliss but only if you think Tofu and plain yogurt taste like anything but ASS.
I'm a realist and as such I am fully aware that all of these "endangered" livestock exist in nature for no reason OTHER than to be a meal for something else.
This is how nature made them. I'm no evolutionary biologist but I'm fairly certain that cows, sheep, pigs and chickens can trace the roots of their place in the food chain back to similarly situated ancestors.
Just because they're cute doesn't elevate them above livestock.
I suppose Native Americans were monsters for killing Buffalo.
Never mind they made use of virtually every part of the animal.
"Barbarians!" you say. "They should've been eating grass and leaves!" (and maybe smoking some too!)
I don't put much faith into that biblical nonsense about "Man's dominion over the Earth." I'm pretty sure nature gives you a few perks and you battle it out from there.
"What about the dinosaurs," you may say, "the largest were almost always herbivores!"Yeah, they were and they didn't move very fast either. Know why? because the carnivores needed a steady food supply and rats on the forest floor weren't going to cut it.
They were beef cattle.
Humans? We're Omnivores. Our bodies don't work right without a balance of both flora and fauna.
Sorry buddy, it's just how we're made and why all those Veggie Nazis always seem to look so sick.
Yeah sure. Point to those rail-thin Victoria Secret models prancing around. All of them looking like they're in dire need of a sandwich with something other than air between their gluten-free bread.
That's not even an acceptable female body image these days. So what about that Mr. Activist? Promoting an unhealthy body image seems to me to be far worse.
The old adage of moderation in everything applies. Some of this, some of that and things go much better.
Sure, there are 100+ year old vegetarians.
They look like crap...
But to the point of this little piece...
The guilt-trip has to stop. Spare me the evil eye while you're choking down your rice cakes and hand-raised soybean spread. I'm perpetuating no evil.You know damned well you want a burger.
How do I know?
Because there's an entire industry that's grown up around your mania catering to your natural desire for balance. A need for sustenance that doesn't normally end up in a lawn mower bag.
Fake burgers, fries, ice cream, even milk.
If you're so happy with twigs and leaves why do companies make millions producing soybean saturated stand-ins?
Get off your high horse. Besides, did you ask it if it actually WANTED you on it's back?
Hypocrite!
You're not superior, you don't have all the answers, and you need to stop assaulting everyone with your absolutes. Nobody will care about your cause if you alienate everybody.
Yes, treat animals humanely for God's Sake! Just keep your condemnations to yourself if I choose a more traditional path.
The two aren't incompatible.
Remember, Absolutes are for Sith Lords and Fascists.
Don't be a Sith Lord.
