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Thread: Why I hurt animals.
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05-28-2012, 09:50 PM #751
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05-28-2012, 11:01 PM #752
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05-29-2012, 04:16 PM #753
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05-29-2012, 04:37 PM #754Good-lookin' wool
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05-30-2012, 08:53 PM #757
An ok BBC episode on our human origins with respect to our guts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geh1mdsFk2kLife is not lift served.
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05-30-2012, 08:56 PM #758
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05-30-2012, 09:00 PM #759
Ok. You got me. I feel a little guilty when eat lamb, because they're so cute.
Wait, no. This thread keeps going because you think that as a human, you are somehow holy and above the animal kingdom.
You are actually the worst kind of human being: a picky eater.
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05-30-2012, 09:24 PM #760...Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...
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05-30-2012, 09:39 PM #761
My understanding is that our digestive tracts are most similar by far to chimpanzees.
Who, according to Wikipedia, eat primarily:
"Most of the chimpanzee’s diet is made up of fruit. It prefers fruit above all other food items and will even eat them when they are not abundant. It will also eat leaves and leaf buds. Seeds, blossoms, stems, pith, bark and resin make up the rest of its diet.[15] While the common chimpanzee is mostly herbivorous, it does eat honey, soil, insects, birds and their eggs, and small to medium-sized mammals, including other primates.[15][22] The western red colobus ranks at the top of preferred mammal prey. Other mammalian prey include, red-tailed monkeys, yellow baboons, blue duikers, bushbucks and warthogs.[23] Jane Goodall documented many occasions within Gombe Stream National Park of chimpanzees and western red colobus monkeys ignoring each other within close proximity.[24][25]"
So there you have it - according to 'paleo' theories we should probably be eating fruit, larvae, and vegetable matter, rarely interspersed with monkey meat.
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05-30-2012, 10:16 PM #762
Did you watch the documentary?
Life is not lift served.
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05-30-2012, 10:23 PM #763
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05-30-2012, 10:37 PM #764
Chimps can use tools but as you note, not every well. They fail at having the correct hand structure and the dexterity to hold them properly... so they suck at being tool using animals.
On the other hand, Man is an Animal using Tool.
uhg, wait, did I did I get that right?
Amongst other reasons, Homo Sapiens were successful because we have the ability to gather, kill, cook, chew and digest a wide range of foods. Helpful when times were tough. But that was then and this is now. Owning a seasons pass = times are not tough, so as a hobby it is ok to be a superior vegan.Life is not lift served.
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05-31-2012, 08:29 AM #765
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05-31-2012, 09:22 AM #766
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05-31-2012, 11:53 AM #767
nah, racoons, have sorta thumb-like things.
It's our large brains, and decent eyes. All of which are primarily composed of fat (as is the pad of your thumb, I believe).
And what's a good source of fat? well, there's nuts and whatnot....and MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT.
in short: you're a blind idiot if you don't eat meat.
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05-31-2012, 01:18 PM #768
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05-31-2012, 01:38 PM #769
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05-31-2012, 02:07 PM #770
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05-31-2012, 04:27 PM #771
I hurt animals because I want to piss off preachy douchebag vegans
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05-31-2012, 05:25 PM #772
Well, yes, the thumb along with hand hand dexterity. But it is what we did with our thumbs that made us successful.
You didn't watch teh BBC documentary either, did you?
As a host it has a pale attractive in a British way ok boobed academic vegetarian declaring that we are all meat eaters. She even gets a model of her teeth made to partially support that fact.
But people just want an easy argument, and sound bites to irritate them into typing.Life is not lift served.
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05-31-2012, 05:42 PM #773
And yeah, I forgot about that thing with combines.
Thousands of furry critters died to bring you bread. Mice, gophers, voles, deer, birds, the occasional limb.
Never mind the fact that most farming, even farming plants, is back breaking, dangerous labor.
But I guess you're so inocent.
I'm grilling up some burgers right now.
I hope you vegans realize that all you do with your preaching is make us hungry. You do know that, right?
You can thank your very existence on modern farming, including animals' meat and such.
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05-31-2012, 06:28 PM #774
Is there a class of even more elite vegans who will not eat anything made from industrial agriculture/cash crops. corn, soybean... all that strip farmed possibly water hungry pesticide and chemical fertilizer using stuff.
And a vegan who does not use synthetics? Cheap shot:
Life is not lift served.
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05-31-2012, 06:33 PM #775
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