Vegetarians are hypocritical.

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Now im not talking to all vegetarians, this is specifically aimed at Moral, lacto and ovo vegetarians.

A Lacto-vegetarian is someone who still has dairy products excluding eggs and Ovo-vegetarian still eats eggs. And a lacto-ovo means they have both dairy and eggs.

Now if you know anything about the dairy industry, you'd know that it's probably worse then the meat industry. In my opinion eating dairy is kind of like the looting from the riots. You wouldn't break the window but you'd step in and take the tv..

Explanations?
 
My wife is vegan. Now that takes dedication. Never in a million years would I even consider it.
 
What.

Veggies are completely different to Vegans..

Veggies eat dairy? Vegans do not?

It's just personal choice, some people don't want to eat dead animals :o
 
I've always thought the same and have great fun in "baiting" vegetarians sometimes if I find out they are one on the grounds of cruelty.

Once you find out with some that they still eat fish and dairy products and happily buy leather goods then I'm in for a good time as they can't really defend their position.

My other half is a vegetarian but purely on taste grounds
 
Scuzi said:
My wife is vegan. Now that takes dedication. Never in a million years would I even consider it.
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Out of interest, why is she a vegan? General taste or..?

Love of meat aside, iirc it's a tough diet to balance properly. Just for the sake of health I probably wouldnt want to try it.
 
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My housemate is an ex vegetarian, but he refuses to eat lamb.
Chicken? Beef? Fish? Fine, lamb? Nope.

Hes never even tried it, I worry for him.
 
Alex74 said:
Is that by choice? Taste in food?

Love of meat aside, iirc it's a tough diet to balance properly. Just for the sake of health I probably wouldnt want to try it.
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Her sister tried it out and she decided to give it a go. Apparently she felt so much better than ever before so decided to keep it up. I still don't understand how refusing to have leather or wool makes you feel better but hey ho.
 
What gets me about those that choose to be vegetarian because they don't like 'cruelty' to animals is that if we were all like that, there would be no sheep, cows, chickens and pigs in large numbers anymore. Millions of animals would die.
 
Scuzi said:
Her sister tried it out and she decided to give it a go. Apparently she felt so much better than ever before so decided to keep it up. I still don't understand how refusing to have leather or wool makes you feel better but hey ho.
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Fair enough, whatever makes people happy at the end of the day.
 
salami1212 said:
Now im not talking to all vegetarians, this is specifically aimed at Moral, lacto and ovo vegetarians.

A Lacto-vegetarian is someone who still has dairy products excluding eggs and Ovo-vegetarian still eats eggs. And a lacto-ovo means they have both dairy and eggs.

Now if you know anything about the dairy industry, you'd know that it's probably worse then the meat industry. In my opinion eating dairy is kind of like the looting from the riots. You wouldn't break the window but you'd step in and take the tv..

Explanations?
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Being a lacto-vegetarian/Ovo-vegetarian does not automatically mean they don't eat meat out of some "moral obligation" which in turn would make they hypocritical.

Besides, if it's an "all or nothing" standard then everybody who isn't a vegan Jainist is a hypocrite.

Bacteria are lifeforms too - I've learned that many different people assign moral values across a wide spectrum of suffering - allowing others & disallowing others.

If you would kill an animal to eat but not a person you are also a hypocrite of the "flawed perfect standard".
 
It's surely only as hypocritcal as eating only some meats, not eating dog or cat for instance? I try and only eat dairy/egg products that are organic and welfare promoting. I do not eat meat (inc fish).

I am sure I will accidently eat some meat based product at some point, it's very hard not to. I have in the past (without my knowing, or by being tricked into doing so by friends/family).

I don't think making an effort, even if I know I will not be 100% successful, is wrong.
 
Edrof said:
What gets me about those that choose to be vegetarian because they don't like 'cruelty' to animals is that if we were all like that, there would be no sheep, cows, chickens and pigs in large numbers anymore. Millions of animals would die.
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billions of animals are killed every year for meat.. :confused:
 
Delvis said:
What.

Veggies are completely different to Vegans..

Veggies eat dairy? Vegans do not?

It's just personal choice, some people don't want to eat dead animals :o
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Derp

He explained the different types of vegetarians.

I find most vegetarians annoying, but that's probably because most vegetarians I've known took it upon themselves to go on about it all time and insist on how you should also be vegetarian. Funnily enough, they were all vegetarians that ate fish (:mad:).

Vegetarians that each fish and preach about how everyone should be vegetarians too are more annoying than religious nuts who try to indoctrinate people on the street with leaflets. There was this one particular person who was a complete nutjob, avid vegetarian, mentioned it at every opportunity, ate fish and wore leather and wore makeup known to be tested on animals.
 
Edrof said:
What gets me about those that choose to be vegetarian because they don't like 'cruelty' to animals is that if we were all like that, there would be no sheep, cows, chickens and pigs in large numbers anymore. Millions of animals would die.
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If we all stopped eating meat & simply stop forcefully breeding them - we could care for the remaining ones & let them die out naturally.

I'm playing devils advocate here, I eat meat - but ending the consumption of meat will not cause more suffering to animals.

Personally, once we get a good enough substitute (grown meat in a lab - which tasted identical & was perfectly safe) I'd be happy to jump ship.
 
It depends on how far they wish to take it. 'Morally speaking' (from a vegetarian point of view) it's better to only consume dairy than to consume meat AND dairy, so it's a compromise position. Not much wrong with that.
 
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