GPLindsey

Vegetarians are nice, gentle people who, as a matter of personal preference or individual beliefs, eat a meatless diet. Vegans, on the other hand, are extremists who seek to impose their militant vegetarian ways on the rest of humanity, as part of some mad moral crusade. However, it is their cause that is IMMORAL, for the following reasons:

1) Veganism seeks to condemn a completely normal aspect of Man's instinctive nature--the desire to eat the flesh of other animals. Just as it is wrong to condemn gays because of the orientation they were born with, and to demand that they obstain from engaging in their natural inclinations, so it is wrong to deny Man his desire to eat meat.

2) Veganism is cruel to children. Children need protein in their diets. However, their stomachs are smaller than adults and they cannot eat a large enough portion of vegan-style protein to match what they could get from eating animal proteins. What 7 year old wants to eat 12 bowls of beans, just to get the same protein they could get from a couple of eggs and some bacon? And what kind of Vegan monster would make a kid eat them beans????

3) Things that enhance the quality of Life are good things. The tremendous variety of dishes that humanity has devised for meat--Kung Po Chicken, London Broil, Lamb Vindaloo, yum yum!--add greatly to the quality of life. To deny others an opportunity to enjoy something that adds so much to the quality of Life is immoral. And only Vegans think Vegan diets are just as rich and diverse as meat diets--beans, sprouts, and tofu as far as the eye can see!

4) Vegans seek to dehumanize Man and humanize the animals, and deny Man his own place in the animal kingdom. Man is a product of nature just as much as other animals, and animals are hunting and killing other animals all the time! But Vegans always paint meat eaters as cruel, sadistic monsters who kill for no reason, while the animals they eat all have hopes and feelings and desires and plans for the future. "Oh, you cruel meat-eater--don't you realize that the chicken you just ate suffered for .00078 of a second before it died, and it loved sunsets and the autumn leaves??" Well, Booo Hooo Hoooo!!!

SO EAT MEAT!!!

Glory

I'm a level 5 vegan. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

-Vegan, animal rights asshole from The Simpsons

Glory

Abacus

I'll stop eating meat when the vegans pry my steak knife from my cold, dead fingers.

Doubting Didymus

I honestly can't tell if you are joking or not.

Undercurrent

Me neither. I'm a vegetarian and I'm not nice or gentle.

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Ought Naught

Neither can I. Generalizations aside...well generalizations aside, there's really not much to comment on in the OP.

tronvillain

The difference between vegans and non-vegans is purely a matter of taste, or rather, a matter of differing degrees of empathy. Of course, that only applies to those vegans who are so for ethical reason, but the OP assumes that. An ethical vegan simply feels more empathy for meat animals than I do, and so we necessarily disagree about whether the benefits derived from consuming their flesh are worth killing them for. It is as simple as that.

MadMordigan

If we weren't meant to eat meat, how come flesh is so damned yummy?

elwoodblues

But bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good...

Glory

Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie but I'll never know cause...well you know.