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idiot: you're an omnivore for a reason. why try to change nature?

Me: Our teeth are flat dear. I live a nice peaceful life now, trying my best to reduce the (needless) suffering of animals. The stuff I eat is healthier and tastier than any meat. Plus meat rotts in your digestive system for days before it passes. You asked! lol

Idiot: some of your teeth are flat, not all of them. if that were the case you would not be able to eat anything that required ripping and tearing. people suffer as well, are you doing anything for them? any food is not good for you in excessiv...e amounts. we are biologically not designed to eat the quantities of food we eat today. our body is actually pretty efficient in conserving and utilizing energy. healthier and tastier is purely subjective and has no basis in an argument like this. most animals on this planet eat other animals on this planet. humans are animals like any other. everything rots in your stomach while you digest it. whether you eat animal or plant, it was all living at sometime. the act of harvesting causes the once living plant to die and decay just the same. if you don't want to eat meat, that's your call. but don't put vegan-ism on a pedestal it doesn't belong on. and what you're speaking of is mostly red meat, but it doesn't rot for days, mearly hours as it gets passed through your system like everything else. slow on the beef, eat more fish, turkey, pork and chicken and you'll be fine

Jenn Dios Do you feel better now that you said all this? I don't think your very well educated on the matter. No single food choice has a farther reaching and more profoundly positive impact on our health, the enviroment, and all of life on earth than choosing vegan. So yeah it should be on a pedestal.

So I deleted him. I don't need this negitivity in my life. I had to share this with this forum. lol

Have a good day everyone.

I don't get it either :( I was reading a thread on a Facebook page (against Monsanto) today. This woman had asked for advice regarding sources of non-GE meat substitutes as she'd discovered the products she was buying contained GE ingredients. For whatever reason, people started harping on the fact she was vegan and then questioning her use of meat-substitutes....one person actually had the nerve to question her ethics as a vegan!!!! So AFTER I cooled off...*rolls eyes* I posted and pointed out the fact that the lady had asked a specific question and what her (or anyone else's) choices are as per meat substitutes is nobody's business. If you eat meat and don't have advice, stay out of it, if you have advice-specific to her question, then answer... I couldn't get over the fact that people had actually questioned her ethics...!

I would have deleted him too! What a jerk. I love how people think that they are experts in nutrition when they have done no research. Most vegans that I know have read extensively on nutrition and are far more educated than meat eaters. I hate how just because our culture has brought about meat-eating that people assume that it is natural for us to live this way. I can't believe that people can look at the dentition of a carnivore and think it is the same as ours. Once I point out that they wouldnt' be able to kill anything without a weapon or actually tear into flesh with just their teeth they shut up. Also, when I point out how animal agriculture uses the most water and most crops grown they shut up too realizing that there is more food to go around without animal consumption!

Oh, everyone just wants to find some way to defend however they are living their lives. Folks with unhealthy diets have to come up with something fictional to justify the animal carcasses, pus-laden cheese and milk, chemicals, hormones and fats that they choose to consume because "everyone else is eating this way". Newsflash: "everyone else" is making the wrong choice too. The idiot's comment about putting veganism "on a pedestal" should be enough to show you he feels his choices are inferior. Don't worry, you have planted a seed of doubt in his mind, whether he realizes it or not.

I hope all the people that want to attack our choices go and see "Forks Over Knives" the first chance they get and keep an open mind and really listen to it. I wish they would all watch Food, Inc. and get an understanding of the environmental reasons and wake up to the way corporations and politics are controlling what we eat. There are just so many reasons to consider veg or vegan.

Those that argue all hang their hat on a few worn out, tired arguments. And like Kim said - they take it personally like an attack on them because deep down they can understand that eating animals isn't really the best choice. They think we are being self-righteous and that is so not the case.