Whatever.

Of course not. Normally they're institutionalized. Talking about giving humans and animals equal rights too much just gets too silly.

The view that eating meat is somehow immoral is not a very widely held opinion.
I never said "That gives them the right to slaughter anything less intelligent". If I did, and you said "that leads to the conclusion that retards and infants should be eaten as well" I would say that you've already said our intelligence gives us the choice to act morally and is what sets us apart from other animals and most people would find eating children and the retarded totally immoral and that's why there are laws against it.

Same here. It just seems gross when it hits you that you're eating the flesh muscles of what was just recently a living body. What really gets me is the people that go beyond regular meats and eat that trippe stuff you see, pigs feets, and how in god's name anyone eats those big ass ugly cow tongues you see at the market is really a freaky thought.

When I do eat meat I eat really small bites now, so in case I start getting those gagging thoughts it easy to spit out in a napkin.

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mate, I drag fish kicking and screaming for their lives out of the ocean embedded on hooks and sometimes have to snap their necks.. when i was younger we used to butcher our own chickens.. I agree with you here, of course it's ok for humans to kill animals for food. If I could get fish to magically levitate painlessly straight into my bucket out of the water, believe me I would be a happier man :)
to me it's about unecessary cruelty.

actually I kind of see it as totally normalised.. who doesn't want to save the earth or stop baby seals from being killed with clubs? Aside from reactionaries out for a response of course..
yeah they do a lot of harm to their cause.. which is why a lot of them need a good slapping, but it's because of them that great swathes of society now are aware and disgusted of the ways animals are treated etc.. I mean you know that they're not helping themselves, but you forget or don't notice that the normal guy or girl working the 9-5 in an office now has a mild opinion on the subject and has been affected by them.. the tv commercials, print advertising and popular magazine editorials help where "dreadlocked and pierced" they fail themselves.

I am starting an organization to save plants... afterall, they too are living things and deserve to be protected.

No meat, no vegies... shit..... we're all fucked.

already been done.

Anybody want some steak... Juicy style?