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Veggies, had enough stick from Meaties?
Vegetarianism needs to come of age
for the right reasons.
Not just a trend set by pseudo health freaks or a proud elitism
endorsed by self-important veg*n organizations with words like "society"
attached to them.
On the other hand, it's pretty unbelievable that even in the 21st
century, there's a society of meat-eaters out there who call veggies
the "funny people" ... Of course these are the very same
bunch who are pro-hunting or have some kind of dead animal hanging
on their wall or even simply stuck in a mire of ignorance.
Humanity's increasingly destructive greed and ignorance proves that
green philosphy must become the prime oracle of everyday living.
So Veggies ... don't feel that you
are being self-righteous by trying to defend your moral ethics amongst
a bunch of flipant meat-eaters. Armed with a few facts and revelations,
answer back! It might kill the spirit of the party for a moment,
but they just might think more carefully in the future about the
numerous flaws in their argument (which, by definition there always
is!), and that basically there is no justification for their ignorance.
Who knows, it could subconsciously change their views and maybe
one day their diet! (And save a few thousand animals in the process)
Lets make unified efforts to re-align
the balance of compassion across the entire spectrum of humanity.
Here are some thoughts, one liners
and tips for both meaties and veggies to ponder over... and some
really rubbish jokes to groan at!
veggieglobal
A
VeggieGlobal subscriber from the
South-West of England tells us about an incident at her school.
A class mate was asked to go on Work Experience (this is where
school pupils are given an opportunity to experience a real work
environment for a few days). The teachers asked the pupil what
kind of work she was interested in. She said she wanted to work
with animals ...
... so they sent her
to work in a butchers. !!!!!!!!
veggieglobal
A
Health and Fitness website reports that the
American Dialect Society gave the term "flexitarian"
to describe "meat-eating vegetarians" its top award
for most useful word of 2003.
"meat-eating vegetarians"?
Huh?
"Flexitarian" should get top prize for the most ridiculous contradiction
in terms ever!
veggieglobal
Um
... joke.
I'm a vegetarian who
only eats potatoes - better known as a Pomme de Terre-rian.
veggieglobal
Here's
a tip:
If you, as a vegetarian
are buying dinner for others at a restaurant - then stipulate
that you will only do so if they don't order meat but a vegetarian
dish instead. It sends a message across in a way that they can't
really argue with, since you are paying!
This action also keeps your own conscience clear, because by not
paying for someone else to eat meat you are obviously not contributing
to animal killing.
veggieglobal
Meaties...
stop treating veggies like aliens or "special cases"
when it comes to inviting them round for dinner. Instead of making
a completely separate starter and main course for the veggie,
why don't you all try a vegetarian meal?... that way all the other
guests won't be salivating over the veggies food going "Ooohh
that looks lovely... I wish I could try that"! ... (that
always happens!). And secondly, it stops the veggie feeling awkward
for creating extra cooking work for the hosts.
veggieglobal
Veggies...
Had enough of those kinds of meaty friends who throw flippant
comments about your diet? "F*****g rabbit food", or
"you eat like a mouse"? Simple ... just change your
friends, with mentality like that they're not worth the plate
they eat their sausage and bacon off.
veggieglobal
And
... another corny joke.
What's a vegetarian's
favourite raunchy movie?
Nine and a Half Leeks.
veggieglobal
If
you are appalled at the thought of wearing furs then why are you
wearing that leather jacket.?
veggieglobal
Veggies...
If you choose your friends only because they are vegetarians -
that is short sighted and self-righteous. Meatie's can be compassionate
but their conscience "un-ignited" towards the common-sense
of vegetarian ethics, so at least give everyone a brief chance
to experience your angle on life. You never know ... it may change
their life.
veggieglobal
Self-righteousness
and vegetarianism don't go together, but worst of all there are
contrived trendy towny health freaks out there who throw the "veggie"
word around with absoloutly no idea what constitutes vegetarian.
"Oh yes, we are vegetarian too". Yeah ... in between
Salad Niçoise (Tuna) and Poulet à la Tarragon (erm...
chicken).
veggieglobal
Don't
call yourself a vegetarian if you eat fish - coz you're not! For
the information of the more stupidly pretentious, that includes
chicken as well! Also, cheese (like parmesan for example) which
contains the stomach membrane of calves (rennet) is obviously
not suitable for veggies.
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