Thread: Vegetarianism and Human Nature

Originally Posted by iDrew

Disgusting animal farming issues aside…

in the not too distant future you blood thirsty savages may not have a choice. The world’s population is exploding and it will need feeding. It takes a massive amount of land to grow crops to feed livestock compared to producing veg food or grains.





Meat eating, as it always has been, is a status thing, it’s just that in this modern world that’s become lost amongst the flash cars and plasma TVs.

The growth of supermarkets = decline of mankind!



I’ve never ever eaten dead animals (veggie parents). My ‘fast food’ is fruit (fresh or dried), nuts and seeds. I rarely have any skin problems - I’m a little English rose. Never get belly or poo problems (bad image, sorry), and can eat as much as I want when I want with no worries about weight


xDrew


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You won't be buying the MacDonald's then?

I’ve never ever eaten dead animals (veggie parents). My ‘fast food’ is fruit (fresh or dried), nuts and seeds. I rarely have any skin problems - I’m a little English rose. Never get belly or poo problems (bad image, sorry), and can eat as much as I want when I want with no worries about weight

My wife and I have been mostly vegetarian for 35 years, much the same health results (though my taste for Belgian beer has added a pound or two). My daughter didn't touch even seafood until recently (she's 20) but my son, though largely vegetarian, loves pepperoni on his pizza. Go figure.

I do think the world's population growth may stabilize as the third world modernizes and the backward dogmas of certain religions are abandoned.

The slogan "you are what you eat" always put me off the idea of being a vegetarian.

Originally Posted by Baron

The slogan "you are what you eat" always put me off the idea of being a vegetarian.

It is funny, isn't it, as that is one slogan that is undeniably true? So you'd rather be a cow than a banana?

I read somewhere that cannibals would eat the hearts or brains of their enemies in an effort to become braver or smarter.

It is truer, perhaps, that we are what we think.

Originally Posted by J.R. MacLean

It is funny, isn't it, as that is one slogan that is undeniably true? So you'd rather be a cow than a banana?

I read somewhere that cannibals would eat the hearts or brains of their enemies in an effort to become braver or smarter.

It is truer, perhaps, that we are what we think.

A cow has a better sex life than a banana. You don't want to know what I'm thinking.

Originally Posted by iDrew

I rarely have any skin problems - I’m a little English rose. Never get belly or poo problems (bad image, sorry), and can eat as much as I want when I want with no worries about weight.

There's nothing wrong with eating meat in moderation as part of a balanced, healthy diet. It doesn't cause skin or digestive problems. And calories are calories. You can't eat as much as you want of anything without gaining weight.

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Wish I could share your optimism.

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It's not entirely baseless, I don't think. Some European countries have pretty much achieved zero population growth. My wife's family are Dutch, and ostensibly Catholic. Her mother's family had eleven children, her father's nine (or so, in both cases). Her family had four children in it. She, and her siblings have all produced only two children each. Lots of children in an agricultural society used to be an asset- more to work the land. Now, they're more work to do for the parents. People catch on eventually.

The thing about human nature... we don't have one.
we pick and choose and learn from our guardians and our environmental influences.
It just so happened we all came form the same place.
On that, it is less nature to hunt, then history to hunt.
IN regards we should all lay back on eating all together. If we follow the Canada food guide we'd be fat.
in regards, eating meat is fine. But pick around the fat. That doesn't belong to you.

I've always preferred eating dead animals. The live ones make a mess on the plate.

Originally Posted by garza

I've always preferred eating dead animals. The live ones make a mess on the plate.

It's a new diet...if you can catch it, you can eat it. Animals get a head start.

FIIIIIIGAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoO

Originally Posted by iDrew

Disgusting animal farming issues aside…

in the not too distant future you blood thirsty savages may not have a choice. The world’s population is exploding and it will need feeding. It takes a massive amount of land to grow crops to feed livestock compared to producing veg food or grains.





Meat eating, as it always has been, is a status thing, it’s just that in this modern world that’s become lost amongst the flash cars and plasma TVs.

The growth of supermarkets = decline of mankind!



I’ve never ever eaten dead animals (veggie parents). My ‘fast food’ is fruit (fresh or dried), nuts and seeds. I rarely have any skin problems - I’m a little English rose. Never get belly or poo problems (bad image, sorry), and can eat as much as I want when I want with no worries about weight


xDrew


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i wish i could share your luk. I was put on a diet when i was 8 because i lacked essential proteins in my diet. they let me stay away from meat, but all i can say is i absolutely despised peanuts for two weeks after.

Originally Posted by Baron

A cow has a better sex life than a banana. You don't want to know what I'm thinking.

well, not to be too disgusting, but do you KNOW what a woman can do to a banana? If yer a cow, you only get big fat ladies that eat dirt all day.

Someone from Zimbabwe told me that when cattle die on his farm everything is eaten - testicles (split and stuffed with spices) eyes, anus, everything except hooves. I said 'Bones?' and he said 'Stock'. It's part of nature for us to eat meat. I think it's good that for moral reasons, some want to step aside and become veggies. People's palates and appetites vary enormously and becoming a vegetarian is easier for some than for others. I'm sure that there's a tribe of people somewhere that live exclusively on reindeer and snow, there's nothing else for them. There's also people that live exclusively on fruit and insects.

I think we won't be living on pills in a few years time, we'll be eating each other - there'll be nothing else the way things are going. Eating the aged.

Originally Posted by J.R. MacLean

It's not entirely baseless, I don't think. Some European countries have pretty much achieved zero population growth.

The UK's indigenous popuation growth has been close to zero for a few years but migrancy puts it up. It is still population growth though, and not resulting in the supplying country's population going down.

Also, western europe used to be just as fanatically religeous as parts of the third world but have progressed over centuries (or regressed, depending on your take). Migrancy fast-tracks cultures here without the centuries of progression and I'm not certain that people here from the third world will ( or won't) quickly begin having two kids rather than 4 or 5.