Originally posted by mikhael
You know, that's the sort of attitude that makes me lay the pimp hand down on pretty much every veggie I know.
My wife's a vegetarian too (has been for probably longer than a lot of this board has been out of diapers), but she doesn't try to evangelise it to omnivores, like most vegetables do.
All that said, read Fast Food Nation to LEARN SOMETHING, not to use it to attack other people.
Yes. Evangelical vegetarians piss me off.
[color=cc9900]I don't evangelise. I respond. Almost everyone around me in, say, school, is a meat eater. Hence, I am the 'different' person. Now, you probably know how your average 15-year-old population responds to different people - if I'm sitting there being berated for my choice to not eat meat, do you expect me to be silent? The meat-eaters certainly aren't.
Anything I read is to learn. It's a thought process directly connected to reading. Putting that knowledge to use is the next step, but as I've already mentioned I don't go out and 'spread the word'. I agree that's the wrong way to go about it.
01010, the sheer fact we
can eat meat doesn't mean we
should. It's like going and starting a war for no reason. Ominovorous and Carnivorous wild (and to a lesser extent domestic) animals
have to. We, on the other hand, have a supposedly superior mind - we have the ability to make a choice, and we have the ability to produce the foodstuffs we eat. The ethical option is vegetarianism, and it won't kill us to choose it.[/color]
