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Man, sometimes you just have to look at yourself and say I am kind of a douchebag about vegetarianism...and I'm sort of okay with that!

Because to me, it is both funny and accurate when I respond to a Very Earnest and Sincere Vegetarian's I just can't eat something that used to be a living, feeling creature with my I could never give up eating chicken because a) it is delicious and b) I have met chickens and they are horrible creatures who deserve to die.

Basically, I wouldn't want to make light of you as a person, but when it comes to your choices, especially choices you try to persuade others to make with guilt-tripping, sweeping generalisations, and ridiculously over-the-top analogies? Fair game.

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Plants: totally not living!

Seriously, having grown up surrounded by farm animals, geese and chickens are vying for the number one spot on the list of Horrible Creatures Who Deserve To Die.

(Basically, I am a huge asshole about vegetarians who are even slightly beyond "I'm a vegetarian but I don't give a fuck what you are" vegetarians because dude, I am not trying to guilt trip you into choosing my eating choices by pointing out that if we stopped eating various animals, most of the breeds would go extinct and that is five thousand different kinds of not cool, so don't you dare try to guilt trip me into choosing yours with bullshit arguments.)

But plants don't have big sad eyes, so they're not worth caring about!

I know! But detailing or even mentioning that list to a Vegetarian means they get this look on their face like they think they're being punked (and it is hilarious, although sometimes they go all kicked-puupy-face and you start to feel bad and then you remember hey! that puppy started it).

I am totally okay with humanity's apex predator status! And unless there's cannibalism involved, I think we should basically just read everyone's food/eating preferences as morally neutral and move the fuck on.

Speaking of things that deserve to die, that bumper sticker that says "I'm not a vegetarian because I like animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants" never fails to make me lol like a sociopath. And I'm always like, "Dude, if you ever met a chicken, you would totally be down with eating those things." HI, MY DEEP HATRED OF CHICKENS, LET ME SHOW YOU IT.

ngl, if i was offered human i would totally try it :(

Hahahaha, love it. They're stupid and mean and ugly and they smell HORRIBLE; we actually sell baby chicks (and geese, and ducks, and guineas) at the store where I work and oh, I hate them so, THE INCESSANT PEEPING AND THE SMELL OF SLOWLY BAKING CHICKEN POOP/HOT DEATH FROM FRYING CHICKEN CORPSES.

I cannot lie, I would, too. Because what does it taste like? But I'd be afraid to eat anyone that died of "natural" causes and I wouldn't want to murder someone for food, because what if that someone was going to do something amazing?

IDK, I had a convo with a friend where we discussed whether the institutionalised cannibalism of death row inmates would be bad (killing people and benefiting in any personal way, even by way of sustenance, is generally considered much worse than killing someone for the benefit of society and not self) or awesome (best deterrent ever, the end).

When we had pet chickens, we had three of them. And the first one got eaten by a neighborhood dog when they were just barely grown up, and we were all super super sad. Then a year or so later, the second one got eaten by a neighborhood dog, and we were all "Oh, thank fucking god, one more left, please get eaten quickly."

It died of old age, the fucker. >:( That was, like, a MILLION years of getting pecked and getting chased and just all around evilness because we couldn't kill it because it was my sister's pet.

I am kind of a douchebag about vegetarianism...and I'm sort of okay with that!

DUDE, THIS! Holy crap, for real, amen, and word.

I have dietary restrictions, and I sure as hell don't try to impose them on anyone. You're cool, I'm cool, we can all be fucking cool so long as you're not a self-righteous, woe-the-poor-beasties, vegetarian-equals-world-peace asswad.

Huh. I had more to say on that than I thought.

I am basically over any of the food-choices-are-moral-choices bullshit; unless you are a) stealing candy from or b) eating babies, no, no they are not. Live and let fucking eat, already, people.

This, this, this. (Except for the eating chicken part -- when I was six or so, I found out I'd been eating bits of chicken and pig and had an epic moment of DO NOT WANT. Which has kind of been my instinctual reaction ever since, so I don't think I could start eating meat and fish if I tried. ~~Also, it's kind of fun. Yeah, I could give in and just eat the damn fish sauce, but I don't want to.~~)

It's like, I am glad you found a lifestyle that works for you, but PLEASE restrain your misplaced evengelism.

Ha, my family is made of people whose only food-related "principle" is don't-wanna-eat-it-you-can't-make-me. You eat whatever you want to eat, I'll eat whatever I want to eat, and unless we're stranded and both going for the last chocolate chip granola bar, our individual choices shouldn't matter to anyone else!

I was such an ass to people in high school when they discussed animals as these fluffy demi-gods better than humans. After all, they don't fight wars over territory!! We should be more like them! It was very hard not to burst out laughing and invite them to spend actual time with what they were defending.

Sometimes you just want to pinch their cheeks and cooingly tell them their romanticism is adorable, but mostly, I just want to, y'know, lock them in a chicken pen for an hour and THEN WE'LL SEE.

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