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> Skanky wrote:
> >>>>>>You said he called it an eating disorder. He did not. He said that
> >>>>>>people with eating disorders can hide behind a vegan diet. A far
cry.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>You're right.
> >>>>
> >>>>No, he isn't.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>The thing is though,
> >>>>>he thinks that all vegans have it.
> >>>>
> >>>>They do.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>His quotes don't word it that way,
> >>>>
> >>>>I believe I've written that all vegans are orthorexic.
> >>>
> >>>Do you believe that you had an
> >>>eating disorder back when you
> >>>identified as vegan?
> >>
> >>My identification was based on one of the same misconceptions you've
> >>stubbornly refused to give up that veganism is about food. I was wrong
> >>to have assumed that veganism could be divorced from the animal rights
> >>part of it (which I never embraced). The two, though, are inseparable.
> >>The difference between you and me is I admit my mistakes and learn from
> >>them while you incessantly and ridiculously repeat yours.
> >
> > Nonsense.
>
> No, I'm correct.
>
> > For many vegans, it's
> > purely about food.
>
> Liar. It's about irrational, misguided concerns for animals, usually
> with a heaping hatred for one's fellow man.

No, it's just you they hate.

> > The modern
> > definition is based on food, and
> > the original one based soley on
> > animal rights.
> > http://www.websters-online-dictionar...finition/vegan
>
> Liar, from your own link:

Go to the link again and trying
reading this time. The prime
definition is food only. The
specialty definition is all the
other stuff.

> Vegans use as their primary motivation the concept of reducing
> animal suffering.
>
> What part of that has to do with diet? Nothing. Let's continue:
>
> Rooted in utilitarian philosophy, as expressed
> by authors such as Jeremy Bentham and Peter Singer, ethical
> veganism is the belief that humans have a moral obligation to
> avoid causing suffering to any other living creature. Animals
> are seen to have the same inherent rights as humans to a life as
> free from suffering as possible. Therefore ethical vegans not
> only avoid eating meat and dairy products but also avoid the use
> of any product whose production involves the suffering of
> animals. Depending on one's level of commitment this can include
> not using certain medicines because they are tested for safety
> on animals. Some feel so strongly about it that they avoid
> buying film made from gelatin and buy digital film instead.
> While there continues to be a debate within the vegan community
> regarding these issues, the overall goal of veganism is to
> reduce animal suffering to the greatest extent possible.
>
> It's NOT about food, Skanky, it's about animal rights.
>
> >>>>...[Vegans are] also out of touch with reality (which is one
> >>>>reason why I suspect AR/veganism are symptoms of deeper mental
> >>>>illness; perhaps it will one day be used diagnostically as a
> >>>>syndrome capturing those who are anti-social, out of touch with
> >>>>reality, and who have a peculiar eating disorder -- the latter
> >>>>being orthorexia).
> >>>>usual suspect: Jun 5 2004
> >>>>
> >>>>Imbalanced people don't make balanced decisions. That's why
> >>>>people become "vegans" in the first place.
> >>>>usual suspect: Dec 4 2004
> >>>>
> >>>>Veganism is a mental illness. I realize it isn't treated as
> >>>>such at the moment, but it eventually will be. It's an extreme
> >>>>form of orthorexia.
> >>>>usual suspect: Jun 12 2004
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>but Usual has made it very clear
> >>>>>that he considers all vegans to
> >>>>>be 'orthorexic'.
> >>>>
> >>>>Correct, and they are.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>And as far as people take unusual attention to food, have you hear
the
> >>>>>>term "Kosher"? Are they sick too? They pay special attention to
> >
> > their
> >
> >>>>>>food.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>What about Italian cooks who delight in their foods? Are they also
> >>>
> >>>sick?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>Usual himself has bragged about
> >>>>>being a good cook and therefore
> >>>>>must enjoy it. Maybe he's sick.
> >>>>
> >>>>I am a good cook and I do enjoy cooking. I have a balanced approach,
> >>>>though, about what I'll eat, etc., which distinguishes me from
> >>>>orthorexics and vegans (who are all, 100%, orthorexics).
> >>>
> >>>You're pretty ****ed up, Usual.
> >>
> >>So says the clueless urban nitwit who thinks farmers will eventually try
> >>to corner the "veganic" market, which doesn't even exist.
> >
> > No
>
> Yes.

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