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Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

All available evidence to the contrary . . .

Yet you can cite none whatsoever. Lots of people are vegetarian or vegan. They do just fine. It's needless. Listen, I'm not a vegan. But I'm not so delusional that I pretend that I HAVE to eat meat or meat products in order to survive. I eat cheese and eggs because they taste good. I ate meat for most of my life because I enjoyed it. But I never needed it for survival or for health. That's just the truth.

What a narrow view - "A human doesn't need meat to survive, therefore the killing of all animals is needless." Way to lose the forest for the trees.

As our foodways exist now, there is simply no way to feed the entire population of the US a balanced vegan diet. It doesn't exist, and it would be catastrophic to try. Could we transition to that? Sure, I guess, over many, many years. So by definition, at this moment in time, we *need* to continue eating meat.

You really don't. But, let's say you're right. The problem many vegetarians and vegans have is not necessarily the eating of the meat, per se (though that is the case for many of them). It's the inhuman treatment of the animals -which is true and it's vile- and the unsanitary conditions they live it. Those conditions are a major source of pollution, water contamination, and antibiotic resistance. That people continue to eat meat on the scale they do, knowing these things, shows how lazy people are. If they spent 5 minutes educating themselves about it, they would be repulsed. As it stands, the slovenly Americans just continue to choke down burger after burger without a second thought.

All of that may be true. In fact, much of it is (although you appear to be confused about the definition of slovenly). But not of it has anything to do with "needless." So, thanks for your contribution?

You're a real dick. Just pointing that out as part of my contribution.

Compelling retort. You are a credit to your parent, and to whatever educational institutions you attended.

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Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

All available evidence to the contrary . . .

Yet you can cite none whatsoever. Lots of people are vegetarian or vegan. They do just fine. It's needless. Listen, I'm not a vegan. But I'm not so delusional that I pretend that I HAVE to eat meat or meat products in order to survive. I eat cheese and eggs because they taste good. I ate meat for most of my life because I enjoyed it. But I never needed it for survival or for health. That's just the truth.

What a narrow view - "A human doesn't need meat to survive, therefore the killing of all animals is needless." Way to lose the forest for the trees.

As our foodways exist now, there is simply no way to feed the entire population of the US a balanced vegan diet. It doesn't exist, and it would be catastrophic to try. Could we transition to that? Sure, I guess, over many, many years. So by definition, at this moment in time, we *need* to continue eating meat.

You really don't. But, let's say you're right. The problem many vegetarians and vegans have is not necessarily the eating of the meat, per se (though that is the case for many of them). It's the inhuman treatment of the animals -which is true and it's vile- and the unsanitary conditions they live it. Those conditions are a major source of pollution, water contamination, and antibiotic resistance. That people continue to eat meat on the scale they do, knowing these things, shows how lazy people are. If they spent 5 minutes educating themselves about it, they would be repulsed. As it stands, the slovenly Americans just continue to choke down burger after burger without a second thought.

All of that may be true. In fact, much of it is (although you appear to be confused about the definition of slovenly). But not of it has anything to do with "needless." So, thanks for your contribution?

You're a real dick. Just pointing that out as part of my contribution.

I don’t find vegans to be too preachy about their diet. What I find in my experience is that, socially, they want to eat at vegan restaurants all the time. I am cool with eating a vegan meal here and there. My vegan friend came into town and wanted to try a bunch of vegan places. I went along happily, but deep down inside I thought it was incredibly selfish. I don’t need to always eat meat, but I certainly don’t want to eat your substitute meat products that are not healthy. I wanted to suggest a burger place that happens to have amazing veggie burgers and great salads, but didn’t want to offend. It was a bit of walking on egg shells when it came to figuring out our meals.

Anonymous wrote:I was vegan for 5ish years. Most of my friends didn't realize it until I was a full year in. I just didn't bring it up. It was my decision, I wasn't trying to convince anyone, so I just went on with my life. I think certain people who have that sort of cult-ish personality are more likely to be that sort of in your face personality with anything they do, not just those who happen to be vegan.

It's like saying a vegan diet is responsible for infants dying whose parents are just plain idiots.

I agree. I also think that any time someone has a special diet, people always ask them about it. I’m vegetarian (not vegan, I love cheese too much lol) and it was such a novelty in my family that they asked all the time about my reasoning. I always felt awkward about it and I’m sure some of them thought my answer was preachy. But they asked. Now I just try to stick to a polite version of it being about my personal choice.

I was vegan for 5ish years. Most of my friends didn't realize it until I was a full year in. I just didn't bring it up. It was my decision, I wasn't trying to convince anyone, so I just went on with my life. I think certain people who have that sort of cult-ish personality are more likely to be that sort of in your face personality with anything they do, not just those who happen to be vegan.

It's like saying a vegan diet is responsible for infants dying whose parents are just plain idiots.

Anonymous wrote:I find many healthy food eaters to be preachy. I believe it's because they think that hey are right.

IA with this. My SIL is a cardiologist. Our other SIL asked her to review her and her families bloodwork results because she couldn't understand why all of their LDL cholesterol was off the charts. SIL #2 was convinced errors had been made because they are vegetarians and eat vegan 2 days/week. SIL #1 told her it's possible to make an error with one person, but not 5. She started going over what they ate and found the culprit: coconut oil. SIL #2 used it for all her cooking and baking, but she 100% refused to believe SIL #1 that that was the cause. She just kept going on and on about how much healthier coconut oil was for you vs the other oils to a freakin' cardiologist! Someone who spend a dozen or so years specializing in the heart and all things cardiac. She just kept pulling up random internet articles (not scientific at all) on the benefits of coconut oil to refute test results in hand and an expert to her face. It was just amazing.

I'd told SIL #2 this ages ago because after my dad's bypass surgery, the #1 food item listed on the paper that he can never ever have for the rest of his life is coconut in all forms.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a vegan. I don't preach and think it's a lifestyle choice like anything. I kind of slowly moved to veganism. I ate meat, but didn't love it so became a vegetarian. I had issues with dairy, so I cut that out. When you do that basically it's just eggs and that was an easy thing to drop because I hate eggs. Bingo blamo, you are now a vegan.

I love, love cooking and love trying different foods and flavors.

And I have to say, nutritional yeast popcorn is the best damn snack in the work. Fight me on that

I tried nutritional yeast and wound up giving it away. The flakes were the size of fish food. I'd thought they would melt and just leave a taste, but they didn't. I think I put them on pasta? Was I doing it wrong? Did I buy the wrong type? I bought a packet from Trader Joe's.

You have to mix the yeast with olive oil on the popcorn. It forms a yummy coating on the popcorn.

Anonymous wrote:Every vegan I know acts like their so enlightened. So annoying

because most vegans have very strong political views, and they believe that everyone should have the pleasure of hearing these views.

Everybody worships something. Humans are programmed by God to worship. Money, lifestyle, Power or God. Vegans worship lifestyle it's essentially a religion.

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Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

All available evidence to the contrary . . .

Yet you can cite none whatsoever. Lots of people are vegetarian or vegan. They do just fine. It's needless. Listen, I'm not a vegan. But I'm not so delusional that I pretend that I HAVE to eat meat or meat products in order to survive. I eat cheese and eggs because they taste good. I ate meat for most of my life because I enjoyed it. But I never needed it for survival or for health. That's just the truth.

What a narrow view - "A human doesn't need meat to survive, therefore the killing of all animals is needless." Way to lose the forest for the trees.

As our foodways exist now, there is simply no way to feed the entire population of the US a balanced vegan diet. It doesn't exist, and it would be catastrophic to try. Could we transition to that? Sure, I guess, over many, many years. So by definition, at this moment in time, we *need* to continue eating meat.

There isn't any society in all of history that was vegan. They wouldn't have survived. Without supplementing humans can't survive on a Vegan diet.

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Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

All available evidence to the contrary . . .

Yet you can cite none whatsoever. Lots of people are vegetarian or vegan. They do just fine. It's needless. Listen, I'm not a vegan. But I'm not so delusional that I pretend that I HAVE to eat meat or meat products in order to survive. I eat cheese and eggs because they taste good. I ate meat for most of my life because I enjoyed it. But I never needed it for survival or for health. That's just the truth.

What a narrow view - "A human doesn't need meat to survive, therefore the killing of all animals is needless." Way to lose the forest for the trees.

As our foodways exist now, there is simply no way to feed the entire population of the US a balanced vegan diet. It doesn't exist, and it would be catastrophic to try. Could we transition to that? Sure, I guess, over many, many years. So by definition, at this moment in time, we *need* to continue eating meat.

You really don't. But, let's say you're right. The problem many vegetarians and vegans have is not necessarily the eating of the meat, per se (though that is the case for many of them). It's the inhuman treatment of the animals -which is true and it's vile- and the unsanitary conditions they live it. Those conditions are a major source of pollution, water contamination, and antibiotic resistance. That people continue to eat meat on the scale they do, knowing these things, shows how lazy people are. If they spent 5 minutes educating themselves about it, they would be repulsed. As it stands, the slovenly Americans just continue to choke down burger after burger without a second thought.

All of that may be true. In fact, much of it is (although you appear to be confused about the definition of slovenly). But not of it has anything to do with "needless." So, thanks for your contribution?

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Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

All available evidence to the contrary . . .

Yet you can cite none whatsoever. Lots of people are vegetarian or vegan. They do just fine. It's needless. Listen, I'm not a vegan. But I'm not so delusional that I pretend that I HAVE to eat meat or meat products in order to survive. I eat cheese and eggs because they taste good. I ate meat for most of my life because I enjoyed it. But I never needed it for survival or for health. That's just the truth.

What a narrow view - "A human doesn't need meat to survive, therefore the killing of all animals is needless." Way to lose the forest for the trees.

As our foodways exist now, there is simply no way to feed the entire population of the US a balanced vegan diet. It doesn't exist, and it would be catastrophic to try. Could we transition to that? Sure, I guess, over many, many years. So by definition, at this moment in time, we *need* to continue eating meat.

You really don't. But, let's say you're right. The problem many vegetarians and vegans have is not necessarily the eating of the meat, per se (though that is the case for many of them). It's the inhuman treatment of the animals -which is true and it's vile- and the unsanitary conditions they live it. Those conditions are a major source of pollution, water contamination, and antibiotic resistance. That people continue to eat meat on the scale they do, knowing these things, shows how lazy people are. If they spent 5 minutes educating themselves about it, they would be repulsed. As it stands, the slovenly Americans just continue to choke down burger after burger without a second thought.

Anonymous wrote:Every vegan I know acts like their so enlightened. So annoying

Not in my experience. It's always the meat eaters badgering them about their choice, putting down their food, and moaning about how they could "never give up meat." Repeat. FWIW, I'm not vegan but I eat not red meat, pork, or poultry.

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Anonymous wrote:Because they feel a moral imperative to stop the needless killing of animals. People who believe something strongly SHOULD be "preachy" about it. Doesn't mean you have to listen.

You keep saying that words. I don't think it means what you think it means.

I'm pretty sure I do know. But thanks for playing.

All available evidence to the contrary . . .

Yet you can cite none whatsoever. Lots of people are vegetarian or vegan. They do just fine. It's needless. Listen, I'm not a vegan. But I'm not so delusional that I pretend that I HAVE to eat meat or meat products in order to survive. I eat cheese and eggs because they taste good. I ate meat for most of my life because I enjoyed it. But I never needed it for survival or for health. That's just the truth.

What a narrow view - "A human doesn't need meat to survive, therefore the killing of all animals is needless." Way to lose the forest for the trees.

As our foodways exist now, there is simply no way to feed the entire population of the US a balanced vegan diet. It doesn't exist, and it would be catastrophic to try. Could we transition to that? Sure, I guess, over many, many years. So by definition, at this moment in time, we *need* to continue eating meat.

Anonymous wrote:Because they're hangry.

Yes.

They are hungry and malnourished. That makes you irrational.

Then add in the fact that it is a religion/cult and you have your answer.