Veggie sex. Oh this orta be good...

[Hitcher]

Unless you're trying to pick up a seriously well proportioned vegie chick in a bar huh?

That comment is strangely oxymoronic and depressing at the same time.

[Ocean1]

Genetically modify the lot of them and be done with it!

Then you get what, Vogons?

That comment is strangely oxymoronic and depressing at the same time.

Maybe I'd been in the bar in question for some time...

[sels1]

Danger, Will Robinson, Vegans!!!

"You are what you eat". Whereabouts did these idiots go to school? I suppose this theory may explain why some of them look like mung bean sprouts, with the brainpower of a turnip. Genetically modify the lot of them and be done with it!

tisk tisk Hitcher....expected a more enlightened post than that from you.
From Pythagoras to Einstien, Da Vinci to Ghandi, some of the greatest minds of history were vegetarians....

[Deviant Esq]

Perhaps so sels1 but vegetarians claiming that people who eat meat are made up of dead animals don't rate highly on the intelligence scale I reckon.

Think of it this way: How many vegetarians grew up as kids on a normal diet including meat, and only made their decision to become a vegetarian later in life? A high proportion, I'm betting. So guess what? By their own assertions, they're made up of dead animals too. Um, what the fuck. I'm 100% human, and it's not for any vegetarian to judge me whatever I eat. Get off your soap box before it gets sick of your bullshit and throws you off.

[kerfufflez]

tisk tisk Hitcher....expected a more enlightened post than that from you.
From Pythagoras to Einstien, Da Vinci to Ghandi, some of the greatest minds of history were vegetarians....

Who's Einstien?

And who wants to look like Ghandi?

Just kidding.(And I believe they were not Vegans?)

Glad that tax dollars are being spent on such great areas of study! Will benefit loads of people, I'm sure.

[Hitcher]

From Pythagoras to Einstien, Da Vinci to Ghandi, some of the greatest minds of history were vegetarians....

Vegetables need a better PR machine. Or at least find some "great vegie minds" that are still alive to be validated by us cynical omnivores.

[SlashWylde]

Perhaps so sels1 but vegetarians claiming that people who eat meat are made up of dead animals don't rate highly on the intelligence scale I reckon.

Think of it this way: How many vegetarians grew up as kids on a normal diet including meat, and only made their decision to become a vegetarian later in life? ......

Good point. Another example of simple minded populist environmentalism.

Also, leaving aside the aforementioned point that vegetables themselves derive sustenance from decomposed animal material (blood and bone anyone?) who do these nutters think transports the veges to their local Foodtown or Pak n Save?

Ordinary Kiwi folk who are mostly omnivores. So by buying supermarket veges the vegans are supporting the slaughter of animals to feed the logistics and farming industry.

The only logical solution, if they care that deeply about the welfare of animals, is for them to form a commune where they grow their own veges hydroponically and recycle their own bodily wastes as fertilizer.

Then they will truly be full of their own shit!

[Hitcher]

It has been difficult and nearly impossible to be a "successful" (i.e. alive/healthy) vegetarian or a vegan respectively until comparatively recently in human evolution. Western civilisation has allowed the development of commercial horticulture and the transport of out-of-season produce to all parts of the globe, giving vegos a variety and quality of produce that did not exist in one place as recently as 60 years ago. Vegans had to wait a bit longer for dietary supplements to be invented.

Hence my cynicism about extravagant claims as to who may have been a vego in days of yore.

[jafar]

As vegans & vegetarians usually have to take suppliments (pills) to compliment their diets there is a fatal flaw in their argument. Without the pharmaceutical companies they would be in deep
Any diet that requires 'suppliments' must be deficient & therefore suspect

[SARGE]

screw it ... hit the damn thing in the head, knock its horns off, wipe its ass and drag it out here on a bed of onions and green peppers

[MacD]

tisk tisk Hitcher....expected a more enlightened post than that from you.
From Pythagoras to Einstien, Da Vinci to Ghandi, some of the greatest minds of history were vegetarians....

You forgot Hitler!

(yes i know it's debatable - but it's part of the you are what you eat argument)

OMG, I call Godwin's Law on myself!

[Goblin]

What I dont understand about these vegans/vegies/ethical consumers is what do they think would happen to all the cattle, sheep, deer, pigs, chooks ect. if we didnt eat them? Do we let them all die of old age then give them all little funerals? Burial or cremation?

[canarlee]

give them all little funerals? Burial or cremation?

wear them?

[Curious_AJ]

i'm a vege, but not a vegan.. and i think that what they said in that article is going a little over the top... I mean, seriously, wtf mate... they might as well go and have sex with a carrot, because humans are made out of meat whatever the hell we eat!!

[Deviant Esq]

i'm a vege, but not a vegan.. and i think that what they said in that article is going a little over the top... I mean, seriously, wtf mate... they might as well go and have sex with a carrot, because humans are made out of meat whatever the hell we eat!!

Careful AJ... make sure that carrot is a consenting partner or it's rape!



'sides, they were saying that people who eat meat are made up of dead animals. Seriously, what the fork?! What we choose to eat for sustainence might make us more or less healty, but made up of dead animals? They should preach to someone who will jump on their bandwagon. Preferably as it's heading over a ravine...