[AmazonForum] Vegetarianism discussion

In the wake of the largest beef recall in the history of US, here's an entertaining discussion :-) on one of those never ending discussions - vegetarianism, halal, kosher, PETA, Soylent Green! etc... seems like there is a growing feeling abt turning back to the old way of eating less meat due to the meat "production" process and due to health risks associated with high consumption of red meat!

Here are some interesting quotes from the thread...

"If someone were going to slaughter you would you rather they slit your throat and let you bleed out or would you rather be stunned first then have your throat slit? Halal and kosher slaughter techniques are not humane. Slaughter house techniques are more humane but worse in practice because it happens too quickly."

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" Oh well, so long as we're killing them in a nice way then that's OK. Do you realise how crazy that sounds?

If you had a pet dog that required euthanasia and the vet suggested just slitting the animals throat would you consider that humane or would you demand sedation?"

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"Chickens are usually shackled upside down and dunked in electrified water tanks. do you know what "debeaking" is? why it's done? to laying hens as well as meat chickens? do you know what "caponized" means?"

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"we (americans) are poised to make the decisions which set standards for the next generation of human-species-life on this planet.

time is now.

as we blithely consume (useless) products manufactured in sweatshop conditions "overseas"...

debating whether or not a "plastic-clamshell-package-opening tool" is a good investment or not

when our dna siblings are dying of aids in africa, and our president won't send them condoms, because of religious-right proscriptions against the prophylactic prevention of pregnancy

that's only a rhetorical example of the stupidity we embody

the list is endless, and i would gladly eat a chimp, a hamster a snake or any gross-seeming food if i could open the blind eye we are turning in this critical moment of history."

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Two folks in the thread started arguing about one person posting with some punctuation mistakes(!?) and the other trying to tell that that person needs to first learn the language since spelling mistakes in the "post" points to sloppiness and laziness... then one person, replied to them, with,
" Hey guys, why don't you move your language discussion to the "We look like fools" forum?" timely and very funny :-)

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"I have been a vegetarian for 35 years. Heard it all. People will eat meat if that is what they want ot do. But.......do not pretend to "care" about the animals and then sit down to a carnivorious meal."

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When someone asked, "whats wrong with eating milk", another replied, "Cows make milk to feed their babies. Would you object if a farmer kept human women and hooked them up to electronic pumps twice a day and sold their milk to be consumed by another species? What about if they were having their hair shaved off so we could make sweaters?"

okay, enough browsing this looooong thread! Ciao!