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originally posted by: TKDRL
a reply to: Char-Lee
It's like everyone else, the moron vocal minority ruin people's perception of things. The moron vocal minority go around acting like they are better than meat eaters, and talking down to people etc. Same as the vocal minority meat eaters will call vegans/vegetarian bleeding heart pussies. I have had vegan/vegetarians call me a liar when I tell them I tried it and it made me sick.
originally posted by: Char-Lee
a reply to: jimmyx
maybe all of this energy and outrage would be better spent, if directed toward the "horrid, and unbelievable abuse" of our fellow man.
Did you mean to say... toward...our fellow man? Because this IS abuse By our fellow man. I personally consider all of the creatures on this planet equal to man.
The land is used to grow grain, corn and all animal feed already, the difference would be people would eat from that land instead.
Here are some studies and projections of the sudden change to veganism for the world.
www.slate.com... tml
From their articles
A second major ramification of global vegetarianism would be expanses of new land available. Currently, grazing land for ruminants—cows and their kin—accounts for a staggering 26 percent of the world’s ice-free land surface.
It simply takes too much water to grow a steak. In a new report, leading water scientists say the human population would have to switch to an almost entirely vegetarian diet by 2050 to avoid catastrophic global food and water shortages.
It's a simple numbers game: Cattle, for example, consume a shocking 17 times more grain calories than they produce as meat calories. All that lost grain (which humans could have eaten) requires water. "Producing food requires more water than any other human activity — and meat production is very water-intensive," Josh Weinberg
www.livescience.com...
look, it is admirable of you to take up this cause, animal studies have revealed that animals are emotional, to what degree is hard to determine. I however, do not have an emotional tie to the animals listed above.
All creatures want to live and fear death, all want to have a family and make their home in their own ways.
originally posted by: PhoenixOD
a reply to: Char-Lee
All creatures want to live and fear death, all want to have a family and make their home in their own ways.
Seriously..? lol Sorry i cant stop laughing.
I hate to break it to you but world is not like a Disney film.
originally posted by: lindalinda
I'm pretty sure the reaction and everything else was staged. It looks like it was a poor attempt at recreating a TED talk.
a reply to: purplemer
Although the speaker is an actress, the audience are real. Catsnake (the film company) organised an evening with five speakers talking about the Hidden Psychology of Burlesque, astrophysics, storytelling, Neanderthal anthropology and, of course, The Secrets of Food Marketing. The evening was organised so that our talk appeared genuine. This was the only way to ensure that audience reactions were realistic. The event was advertised on various websites, including facebook, and people bought a ticket to attend. All monies from ticket sales have gone back into the film to pay for advertising, promotion and seeding.
originally posted by: TKDRL
a reply to: gentledissident
No, not really these days. Does your conscience reel over the death of plants every bite you take?
originally posted by: TKDRL
a reply to: gentledissident
Why would you expect it to be different for meat eaters?
originally posted by: TKDRL
a reply to: gentledissident
You will drive yourself nuts thinking about all the ways that just existing and going about normal life, how much death and destruction you are causing. I am one of those dorks that when they see a bug in the house, I try to catch it and let it go back outside rather than squashing it lol.