Author Topic: do the fine folks in PETA actually expect me to take them seriously? (Read 4768 times)

tramp · « **Reply #25 on:** January 30, 2010, 10:36:58 AM »

where is peta to save millions of killed spiders
even children kill them
this travesty must be stopped
what about billions of ants killed by exterminators
surely houses can be moved to stop this violence

mark · « **Reply #26 on:** January 30, 2010, 11:01:54 AM »

Quote from: tramp on January 30, 2010, 10:36:58 AM

where is peta to save millions of killed spiders
even children kill them
this travesty must be stopped
what about billions of ants killed by exterminators
surely houses can be moved to stop this violence

yup. termites gotta eat too.

bucky katt · « **Reply #27 on:** January 30, 2010, 12:21:02 PM »

we have a neighbor who says she's vegan. every once in a while i like to aggravate her, her husband thinks it's funny as hell. like i said she thinks she's vegan, then i ask her what her riding boots and saddle are made from, then she starts sputtering, then i ask her about the yogurt smoothie she brags about drinking instead of eggs or something like that like i eat (yogurt IS a dairy product) it's about this time she starts turning brick red and purple and she sounds like she has tourettes (i'm not putting people down that have tourettes) and her husband is at the top of their driveway, rolling around on the ground laughing his ass off. her husband thinks it's good for her to be taken down a couple of notches and god knows i always feel better afterwards, a spring in my step so to speak. it's gotten so that my wife can tell when linda and i have gotten into it.

Frankenkit · « **Reply #28 on:** January 30, 2010, 12:46:22 PM »

I think everything needs to be done in moderation. Buddhism has it right there. If cows are gonna be killed for meat, then we might as well wear leather so they don't go to waste. We shouldn't probably base 100% of our diet on meat, but enough here and there makes people stronger and healthier, and less likely to be anemic.

Vegans have tough lives. They have to figure out the amounts of beans and legume product they need to eat to get enough protein to be healthy, figure all the green leafies they should be eating to get their iron, none of that crap really tastes all that good, except maybe the morningstar stuff... I often ponder why any nice veggie brand of food would name their company after lucifer, but who knows?

I'd rather be an omnivore and have a few leather goods that I take good care of, have pets I treat better than some people treat their kids, etc etc.

MickeyX · « **Reply #29 on:** January 30, 2010, 12:53:09 PM »

I used to live in the heart of Amish country PA. Every week I'd go to the big Farmers Market and buy fresh fruit, veggies, some meat from the butchers... one time as I walked up, a woman was standing there at a veggie stand, letting the nice man behind the counter know she is vegan, admiring the crop he produced that year, expounding to all around her that she is totally against eating or using animals... blah, blah, blah... I walked up to her as she was buying bags of veggies and said "You do know that most of the sellers out here are plain people? They use horses to till the earth, pull the wagons, spread the seeds of the veggies you eat every week. Where do you suppose the fertilizer came from to grow those? The cotton clothes you wear may have been harvested using animals for labor. Your leather purse... well, we know where that came from, don't we?" She got ashen and walked away with her stuff.

Then I walked over to the cheese steak sandwich stand and ordered one up. I was starving after all that talk about being vegan.

Frankenkit · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2010, 01:18:23 PM »

that is SO not kosher!

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #31 on:** January 30, 2010, 01:18:41 PM »

Yes, the Noble Eightfold Path will set you right every time.

demon78 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 30, 2010, 03:28:11 PM »

You know, I'd get more behind PETA if they would'nt turn a blind eye to the animal slaughter ( called humans by some ) in a war, conflict whatever. But then I'm a cynical old bastard.
Bill the demon.

bucky katt · « **Reply #33 on:** January 30, 2010, 04:01:55 PM »

this thread has reminded me of when i was working running a recreation area on Ft Jackson. at weston lake one of the things we had out there were several lakefront cabins that could be rented nightly or weekly. one day a parent of a graduating soldier called up to reserve one of the cabins so they could come up and stay there a couple of nights so they could see their son/daughter graduate. this lady asked all the good questions like, what time is checkin, what time is checkout. OH! and can she rent a cabin that meat has never been cooked or eaten inside? i started laughing at first because i thought "this nut MUST be kidding" well, it turns out she wasnt but when i told my boss why i laughed at her, he started laughing too. i wonder if she was the one that thought up the idea of the robotic Punxatawney Phil.

the technological J · « **Reply #34 on:** January 30, 2010, 08:16:27 PM »

lol cows are fun to pet, better to chew

tramp · « **Reply #35 on:** January 31, 2010, 05:19:53 AM »

had a niece that was against animal cruelty
i asked her if she knew that plants had nervous systems and that they screamed every time you pulled them out by the roots
asked her where the leather came from for her shoes
told her the only way to stop the cruelty was to stand naked in the desert
even them she would be standing on sandticks and crushing the life out of them

mystic_1 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 31, 2010, 06:47:57 AM »

Quote from: mark on January 29, 2010, 08:58:01 AM

how could anyone be a vegan with the knowledge that veggies scream just like lobsters when ya throw 'em in the pot??

http://peaceandloveism.com/wiki/index.php?title=Plant_Consciousness

I could feel myself getting stupider just looking at that website. $:-\$

mystic_1

333 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 31, 2010, 07:47:25 AM »

Quote from: Freaky1 on January 29, 2010, 09:11:13 AM

PETA must have a ton of free time on their hands these days,

And what about us? Looks like we have a boat load of free time!

Frankenkit · « **Reply #38 on:** January 31, 2010, 08:23:54 AM »

I dunno about you 333, I'm purty busy with everything...

bucky katt · « **Reply #39 on:** January 31, 2010, 11:11:33 AM »

Quote from: tramp on January 31, 2010, 05:19:53 AM

had a niece that was against animal cruelty
i asked her if she knew that plants had nervous systems and that they screamed every time you pulled them out by the roots
asked her where the leather came from for her shoes
told her the only way to stop the cruelty was to stand naked in the desert
even them she would be standing on sandticks and crushing the life out of them

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #40 on:** January 31, 2010, 10:48:04 PM »

I don't really give a crap about Phil but knocking vegans or vegetarians is kind of lame. It does not mean you are some wacky PETA activist. My friend and canoeing partner Lisa is a vegan and it does require a big effort on her part but she does not wear leather, eat eggs, milk, etc and I respect that. I actually conform to her diet on our 7-10 day wilderness canoe trips as it is just easier. We make and dehydrate our own food for the trip and I think it's pretty good. We take long trips and she takes her turn portaging the canoe sometime up to half a mile and can out paddle anyone I know. I doubt there are many here who could keep up to her pace on one of our trips. Here's one vegan who would leave most carnivores in her dust.

Don R · « **Reply #41 on:** February 01, 2010, 08:02:07 AM »

The next time it rains we all need to stay home to protect the needless slaughter of billions of worms on the road trying to dry off a little. They are essential to the creation of top soil and their loss will surely mean the destruction of all top soil in the world.

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #42 on:** February 01, 2010, 09:36:54 AM »

Just saw this on the news. This figure skater has PETA sending him nasty emails for wearing a costume with fox fur so now he is going to change his outfit. My thought is shouldn't any guy who wears something like this in public have someone sending him nasty emails?

At least we should thank PETA because we won't have to look at this during the Olympics.

74cb750 · « **Reply #43 on:** February 01, 2010, 12:47:47 PM »

Seems to me being belonging to PETA does not necisarialy mean you are vegan.
Just as most people whom belong to a certain religion do not believe all the tenants of that religion;
but it is fun to poke vegans,
otherwise people will start poking fun at us Canadians.

bucky katt · « **Reply #44 on:** February 01, 2010, 01:53:20 PM »

i have friends who are members of PETA that are embarassed time and time again by the extremists in the group. one is a horse trainer i work with from time to time, and she just shakes her head when she sees articles like this. the extermists also want us to turn all of our housepets and horses loose to fend for themselves in nature. they arent htinking when they say stuff like that. our domesticated animals wouldnt survive out in the wild on their own turning them loose would be the cruel thing to do. i dont have a single problem with vegans or vegetarians OR most members of PETA. it's the ones that talk about using a robotic groundhog or not eating "sea kittens" that get my blood boiling. god i hope this post made sense, the meds i'm on have me almost having halucintations LOL not that thats bad mind you.

mystic_1 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 01, 2010, 03:51:54 PM »

Bucky, even hallucinating on meds, you make way more sense than some of the PETA folks

mystic_1

syth82 · « **Reply #46 on:** February 01, 2010, 05:49:11 PM »

PITA actually reminds me of the NRA in this sense. A bunch of people who take an idea to such an extreme they make sensible ideas and ideals look downright nuts. IMHO

Frankenkit · « **Reply #47 on:** February 01, 2010, 08:01:20 PM »

+1 That's what I was thinking today, actually. There are a lot of normal people who are members of these groups... and then there are extremist wackos.

I'd really like to be a member of the american humane society, because I believe in helping people take care of their pets/ neuter/spay/etc... but they also have wackos against hunting/fishing and I can't stand for that.

the technological J · « **Reply #48 on:** February 01, 2010, 08:10:55 PM »

Quote from: Kit on February 01, 2010, 08:01:20 PM

+1 That's what I was thinking today, actually. There are a lot of normal people who are members of these groups... and then there are extremist wackos.

I'd really like to be a member of the american humane society, because I believe in helping people take care of their pets/ neuter/spay/etc... but they also have wackos against hunting/fishing and I can't stand for that.

thats how i feel as a christian theres a lot of loud people with alot of pointy fingers that ruin the name of otherwise good groups... they make the freedom and reason sound like chaos and absurdity

bucky katt · « **Reply #49 on:** February 01, 2010, 08:38:39 PM »

i guess it's the same thing when someone thinks motorcycles and figures anyone that rides is a hells angel or a meth dealer. it's the vocal minority that screws things up for the 99% of a group that ARE sane

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Author Topic: do the fine folks in PETA actually expect me to take them seriously? (Read 4768 times)