Vegetarians or Vegans?

[izz]

Originally Posted by 99Boogies

Ok, this is so bizarre, but I had a flashback to college "History of Fairy Tales" class...

Basically, in western culture it was a GOOD thing to eat/drink something because there was a belief that by doing so you could acquire some of the characteristics of the thing/person(!) you were eating. Cannibalism was a very popular theme in western fairy tales. But what is more disturbing than that is the number of people who participate in a symbolic ritual cannibalism every Sunday! (Really no offense intended, just an intellectual observation).

the thing is boogle the meat eaters and th enon meat eaters or partial meat eaters will never agree .. until a shift occurs and they see things the same way .. so all this discussion is in some way pointless..

I think the belief you have just highlighted is still in operation which is why the chinese [ some chinese ] chop off the paws ffrom bears when they are still alive - to imbue the soup with the fear and pain of the bear ..

same with tigers .. they have tiger farms where they harvest these beautiful creatures for the same reason ..

essentially .. slaughter houses are vile and that is where most of the meat comes from .. i cant eat meat because i cant be party to that vileness .. any cursury look at farming methods and killing methods on the internet and you would see what i mean.

If could live life as the american indians did .. maybe i would eat meat ..

[Shellie]

You're right.

[Dantheman62]

Originally Posted by izz

the thing is boogle the meat eaters and th enon meat eaters or partial meat eaters will never agree .. until a shift occurs and they see things the same way .. so all this discussion is in some way pointless..

I think the belief you have just highlighted is still in operation which is why the chinese [ some chinese ] chop off the paws ffrom bears when they are still alive - to imbue the soup with the fear and pain of the bear ..

same with tigers .. they have tiger farms where they harvest these beautiful creatures for the same reason ..

essentially .. slaughter houses are vile and that is where most of the meat comes from .. i cant eat meat because i cant be party to that vileness .. any cursury look at farming methods and killing methods on the internet and you would see what i mean.

If could live life as the american indians did .. maybe i would eat meat ..

I'm not knocking anything here at all, love my vegies and don't eat alot of meat and my oldest sister is vegetarian, but just wondering why do we have the teeth we have? some teeth are for biting and tearing meat aren't they? again, just wondering!