Stop top-posting, goddamnit.

God, I hate vegetarians wrote:

> So tell me why I hate veggies so much.

Who cares? If you hate them, don't eat them.

> It's not like I think it's cool to do so.
> I think hating anyone or group is pretty effing uncool, as a matter of fact.

That depends on the constituency of the hated group,
and the reasons for hating them.

> But veggies just fill me with a deep and intense loathing.

I doubt that. When you eat rice or bread or potatoes
or tortillas or cookies or any of a number of things,
you're eating "vegetables". You do not eat only meat.

> I suppose at some level, veg'ism says 'I'm too good to eat THAT' - inferring
> by the converse, that carnivores are somehow inferior.

THAT'S why "vegans" and some other vegetarians are
hated: their appalling snobbery and condescension.

> And 'I care about animals' - inferring by the converse, that carnivores
> don't.

Same again.

> Neither obviously, is true.
> I suppose it strikes me as some kind of bizarre symptom of a mental illness
> that people get hung up about a cow/pig/sheep being humanely euthanased.
> Animals eat animals, why shouldn't we ?
> After all, are we not animals too ?
> Is the moral motivation for veg'ism a kind of anthropomorphisation ?
> Do veggies see farm animals as somehow human ?
> If so, how ?
> I can understand seeing a family pet as a member of the family .... even as
> an honorary human, but FARM animals ?
> I'm sorry, but that's just ph*cked up.
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> "Jonathan Ball" > wrote in message
> news >
>>Katherine Wolfe wrote:
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>>>In article >,
says...
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>>>>And rightly so.
>>>>They just want something to protest about - even if that protest is
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> covert.
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>>>>They fill me with homicidal loathing.
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>>>It's just silly to get yourself all wound up about something like
>>>whether someone else eats meat or not. Hey, life's too short. Kick
>>>back, have a steak, and a really big cold beer, and chill out,
>>>whydontcha? ;-)
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>>That's certainly the approach I try to take for myself,
>>although it's more likely to be some nice pork chops.
>>However, I don't really care if people are vegetarian
>>or not; what I *do* care about is when they either
>>explicitly try to shove their beliefs down my throat,
>>as "aras"/"vegans" want to do and sometimes try to do,
>>or if they parade around exuding their insufferable
>>arrogance, which they all do.
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