Things you can't stand

[Gnoblar]

Clawbug receives a cookie from me for this post. 

I concur.

[Shard]

Vegetarians (grow a ball/don't be a pussy and eat meat)

Whats your problem. Its down to peoples choice for eating meat or not, why is it being a pussy for not eating it, some people CANT and others dont like it....

[Gnoblar]

some people CANT

I get the rest of the post, but how can someone simply just not be able to eat meat.

In my opinion, if we breed animals for slaughter, as long as I never have one of them as a pet, I don't care. I'll eat that steak.

I don't like the idea of eating wild animals though, let's create our own food and not steal it from the world yeah?

[The Geologist]

Some people have allergies to meat, Gnoblar.

And, ah, it's a little late to talk about not stealing from the world.

[a-4-year-old]

Some people have allergies to meat, Gnoblar.

Not all meats at the same time, and some are just allergic to bloody meats, cooking them medium well is enough to solve that.

No excuse for being a pansy.

[pavliko]

I cant stand when people saying that if they fap/have safe sex,Than they kill a baby.  >.>

[N. Escalona]

Gnoblar brings up a good point though, I hear a lot about medical reasons for vegetarianism, but are they any more concrete than medical reasons for marijuana? I'd be curious to see Geo's next response.

As for stealing from the world, the only way to avoid that is suicide. Honestly, this is what the world is here for: as a resource for us. There's no way to avoid that and survive.

[croat1gamer]

A resource that we need to use rationally.

[N. Escalona]

No argument there.

[frogboy]

People migrating from muslim-rich countries, if they are muslims, tend to commit more crimes than the natives in Finland. This has been summed up in a report by Finnish Ministry of Labour, and our president is from the left-wing, and government back then aswell.

ive found the opposite. crime statistics in the australian states of victoria and queensland show that people born in sudan, a predominantly muslim country, are under-represented in crime statistics. and even if it were true it doesn't take into account the fact that immigrants are poorer and thus more likely to commit crimes, and that much crime comes from unfamiliarity with the law bred from a mistrust of police.

the rest is complete rubbish and i might as well read mein kampf.

[Demonic]

people from the bottom of the economy are fifty times more likely to commit common crimes. the fact that this category often overlaps with ethnic- or religious minorities is a completely different case.

and on that topic, I can't stand when people try to apply century old answers to new questions.

[N. Escalona]

godwin's law

well we made it to 108 posts guys; not bad

[frogboy]

youre an idiot.

[N. Escalona]

Hey, y'ain't so bad yerself!

[jrgp]

Also, book burnings, feminists, hustlers, people who're catatonic, M$ fanbois, Dell, modern hard drives only lasting at most 3 years, programming in CamelCase etc.

[Gnoblar]

I hate people who think it's clever to swear.

[jrgp]

I hate people who believe swearing is a sin.

[STM1993]

I hate people who believe swearing is a sin.

Well that depends on the swear word used and depending on your religious views. Saying stuff when something goes wrong like "shit" isn't, but saying stuff like "oh my god" can be said to be blasphemy and therefore a sin. Ultimately, swearing is fine and it is human and normal to swear, but we all can agree that swearing in general is rude and informal. I have nothing wrong with swearing, I just prefer to minimize it.

[Snow]

some people CANT

I get the rest of the post, but how can someone simply just not be able to eat meat.

In my opinion, if we breed animals for slaughter, as long as I never have one of them as a pet, I don't care. I'll eat that steak.

I don't like the idea of eating wild animals though, let's create our own food and not steal it from the world yeah?

Fact of the matter is Gnoblar, eating wild meat is a lot more healthier and in my opinion also much more humane (does depend how you kill the animal). I grew up on a ranch and despite that we always took utmost care of our animals, the whole industry was just ugly and sickening. In some cases it's like an ongoing holocaust for animals. Back in the old days cattle and other animals raised for meat roamed free and happy on a small pasture or in the woods. Now, they are crammed together in a small space, forced to stand in their own faeces and in the case of pigs, grow up never seeing sunlight.

A lot of current diseases that are affecting cattle and pigs were caused by the above conditions. It wasn't much of a problem, until humans started getting affected by the diseases as well. Since the days of animal domestication, disease among livestock was never a concern. On one hand, yes, a sick animal probably had it worse, being left to die or for predators, than a sick animal has now (1 bullet). On the other hand, being out in nature as nature intended them to be, the healthy animals had very strong immune systems. Animals raised in sealed, temperature controlled barns not only develop poor immune systems, but are also fed medicated feed to fight off any possible contaminant. Imbreeding also was not much of a concern, since the animals themselves would stick to their own social order. Now, being in close quarters and fenced in as they are, it happens a lot. Some ranchers also have been known to lock up animals together, so as to save money. If one bull can spawn 3 imbred generations, before genetic defects start appearing - saves a bit of cash there.

Animals are being raised in unnatural conditions, fed medicated feed, given hormones (which some biologists have argued is extremely dangerous and I guess there is still an ongoing study to see if it is affecting human consumers), their getting more sick and in some cases have been given feed which contains by-products of their own species (it's speculated that that's how "mad cow" disease started).

We knew a pig farmer who was a useless ignorant piece of work (that should be deported... he's Dutch and actually has contempt for my country - Canada and also Canadians) who had a modern farm. He had a sealed barn, fed his livestock medicated feed and hormones, etc. Every day, one of his workers would go into the huge barn with a .22 rifle. (A pig is an intelligent animal, that have personalities. They actually make excellent pets, so I've heard. They can suffer stress to the point it causes heart attack.) The asshole would go in and shoot any animal that was struggling with a broken leg or had physical deformaties or if it looked like it might have brain damage. He would shoot them, while standing in the middle of all the pigs in the pen - rather than seperate them. All the rest of the pigs would flee, screaming, with no place to go, but run around. My dad asked the asshole pig farmer one day, after seeing some freshly killed animals with broken legs come out of the barn, why not butcher one or two, have a bbq today and put the rest in the freezer. This guy was revolted at the thought of eating his own pigs - his own product which he was raising for human consumption. He said they weren't even fit for the coyotes to eat, after the carcasses were dumped in the bush.

And that is how it is. An animal that can run around free and happy, is a healthy animal. A healthy animal is good eatin. This whole industrialized meat industry is so sickening that I've been pondering not eating meat that comes packaged in a store, since, I don't know who raised it, what is in it and also if the animal had a decent life or not. Otherwise I still like meat.

[N. Escalona]

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