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Permalink Reply by Julien on February 1, 2011 at 3:46pm

It's not the same if you don't torture an animal for a little while first...

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Permalink Reply by Julien on February 1, 2011 at 3:55pm

Of course, that's not how I would feel about it, but I'm sure a lot of people would still kill and eat animals just like they do now, when there is already plenty of other food available. Basically, nothing will change, because the ones that don't eat meat for the sake of the animal, are already either vegetarians or planning to become one really soon.

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Permalink Reply by Misty: Baytheist Living! on February 3, 2011 at 12:01am

I'm not vegetarian by any means. 

I can justify this by responding to the post popular points for vegetarianism by saying this:

I fully believe that I do more to help the planet by not having kids than I ever could by not eating meat. 

My body is my business. No matter what diet is 'best' for me, as an adult I can put what I want into my body when I want to. Period. 

I also think that death is pretty natural, too. 

So that just leaves pain and suffering.

Yeah. I'm not so cool with that. The animal products I buy are always (or as close to always as I can get) open range, grain free, organic, game meat, ect. 

If something lives a pretty natural life and then dies humanely, why not eat it? 

Now if I could buy a big, juicy roast chicken and not have to do research for ten hours to make sure it didn't come from a cramped little cage and a life full of forced hormones, I sure as hell would. Even if it costs twice or three times as much, I would. 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by M on April 21, 2011 at 7:07pm

I think you are right about people still wanting to hunt.  My husband hunts.  He loves the activity of hunting, and he also loves bringing home food to his family.  Inherent biology?  The environment he grew up in?  Both?  I couldn't tell you.  Nor do I condemn it.  He's as humane as it gets, really.

 

I've also wondered, just for argument's sake really, what would happen to all the livestock we were no longer eating should the world simultaneously go vegetarian?  I would just like to point out as a disclaimer, I have nothing against those who eat me (ie, me) or vegetarians at all.  Each to his own, friends. 

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Gentle on February 2, 2011 at 5:23am

Agreed.

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Permalink Reply by Tammy on April 20, 2011 at 7:03pm

Agreed!

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on April 21, 2011 at 11:51am

Thin sliced shitake mushroom tossed in olive oil and course salt can be baked until crisp and added to a salad as a very comparable substitute to bacon bits - great on baked potatoes as well. Please understand that I am a serious meat lover and I am serious when I can say the crispy shitake mushroom bits really could replace bacon bits - although bacon has just so many damn wonderful uses.

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Permalink Reply by noisician on June 9, 2011 at 5:03pm

It's funny, salty, fatty, and not what god intended -- but fry a slice of SPAM up in a pan and it tastes pretty good to me.

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Permalink Reply by Dylan Martin on November 29, 2011 at 2:44pm

Mmmmmm... SPAM...

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Permalink Reply by Craig Nomazlab on February 2, 2011 at 8:03pm

I'm a vegetarian and I completely agree with you.

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Permalink Reply by claudio fernando maciel on February 15, 2011 at 5:56am

I couldn't agree more with Adriana.

I'm healthy enough without any type of meat. 

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Permalink Reply by Allen Sneed on February 1, 2011 at 4:23pm

Yes, I would eat it. And that's saying a lot. As a vegan for about 10 years now I no longer view meat as food. The thought of eating flesh is as disgusting to me now as the thought of eating earwax, blood, pus, semen, urine, milk or other bodily fluids. But I would eat lab grown meat just to help create a market for it so that all the people who haven't realized you can get your fat and salt fix without eating meat will stop paying people to torture and kill animals for the trivial sake of their own taste buds.

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