Shouting about the disgrace of our society. We need to face upto the fact that killing animals is just unacceptable. Do something worthwhile today. Be vegan.
This is an odd one. I have just been looking around the web as I sometimes do when I am too tired to do any work and I came across someone on a social network saying how much they hated vegans. Apparently we are brainless, smug and need a good steak. I then did some research and found many similar attitudes. At this point I would like to say that a lot of these statements were badly written and childish so perhaps vegans are not the only ones with empty heads.
I wonder if this hatred is due to vegans being honest about the way they feel about the death of billions of animals and meat eating vegan haters not liking to be reminded that they are part of a killing process. Most meat eating friends I have spoken to about veganism are genuinely interested in why I choose not to eat meat and most admit to never really thinking about how animals are killed or if they deserve to have a right to have children and keep them for example. I don’t know if it changes their habits, I would like to think so and if that makes me smug then I guess I am smug. I don’t feel smug because everywhere I look there is unnecessary death and that just makes me very sad.
As a vegan I do not feel brainless, smug or in need of chewing and swallowing the flesh of a dead body. As a vegan I feel sad that I live in world where people seem to be lacking in compassion, I feel annoyed that I cannot eat with friends or family in a restuarant because I feel sick when I see bodies cut up and I feel that the world will never become a better place with so many people living in denial about what they are doing.
To those who defiantly say they know all about how animals are treated and how they do not care that they suffer and laugh at vegans, saying things like ‘for every piece of meat you don’t eat I’ll eat three’, then I must conclude you are less intelligent than those you eat.
I used to eat meat, wear leather and basically had the same contempt for animals which I see on a daily basis everywhere I look. I became a vegetarian after seeing newborn lambs prancing around and not wanting to be responsible for them being murdered. I became a vegan when I was thinking of breastfeeding my son and finally understood what the dairy industry is all about. What I know now, I did not know then. No longer living in ignorance, I have no option but to write this blog.
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Hello there,
oh, I SO agree with you. Thank you.
The ordinary madness (like everywhere)
Some people just want to argue. They aren’t interested in objective responses or explanations about vegan arguments.
For them vegans are:
- wimps
- plant murderer
- a misguided minority
- peaky and unhealthy
- know-it-alls and moralizers
But most vegans are people who recognized the consequences of their actions and the involved responsibilities for people, animals and environment.
Green greetings from Germany
ok look i know how animals are killed and everything but if we didnt kill and eat the animals there whould be an over populattion of all the animals and since my ancesters where indians they used everything that the animal had to offer and none of the animals where wasted. and i dont think you guys are wimps i think you guys need to think about what u are doing to your selfs cause you see if it wherent for those animals you probably would not be alive so you guys need to realise that meat and everything involved with meat is good for you and the animals do have souls but they where created to help use survive and learn
I think the ‘they were created for us’ is an excuse used far too often. I don’t believe humanity has to be so selfish in their behaviour. I do not believe eating meat is good for me as I am healthier now than when I ate dead bodies. I do understand as we evolved it was necessary as options were limited but human beings can continue to adapt to their environment and are capable of great things - they have to be if the species is to survive. I don’t understand how you can say animals have souls but that is is fine to kill them (and please look at the PETA site to see just how we kill them and how much agony they often experience). I do not believe in God and if I did, I would be disappointed in him.
thanks for sharing you elitist shit.
Thanks for reading it. Why does it upset you so much that people don’t want to kill things?
i am a newly converted vegan, i have been vegan for a month now and very proudly. I am tormented by the world i live in and the suffering of humans and animals. My conscience is heavy and becoming vegan is helping me and the more i read the more i am happy with the choice i have made. However, my eating habits have become central to debate in my family. i am equally against the exploitation and killing of animals and i undersatnd that in the past it may have been necessary to kill and eat animals and in some areas of the world it still is. But i credit myself with a brain and an education and i feel that living in the grossly greedy and excessive western world that i do i don’t have to be brainwashed by the media, the nhs and the food companies to eat meat or dairy products. I feel becoming vegan has set me free in so many ways. It’s just a shame i am not around more like minded people.
Admin,
As a meat-eater, I’m ok with you thinking and believing the things you’ve mentioned in your post. The only times I have problems with vegans is when they start imposing their beliefs on other people and calling them murderers if they disagree. To be honest, that’s just plain rude and disrespectful.
Now that I think about it, perhaps that is why some non-vegans have said that you vegans are “smug.”
Tallius:
A vegan for what is soon to be a year, I agree that sometimes we can get a little preachy. However, we sincerely equivocate animal slaughter with a neatly-packaged Holocaust, along with a massive atrocity to the environment around us. These strong feelings contribute massively to our less-than-closeted beliefs.
Supporters of such slaughter, although too often ignorant to the circumstances by which their meal came to lie dead on their plate, are still supporters. Seeing people eat meat is something like watching a murderer chop up an innocent five year old to a normal person.
Ghandi said something to the effect that a nation’s worth can be determined by how it treats its animals. That’s another huge issue of debate.
The more compassion a country has for its animals, the more compassion its people will have for each other. It’s a respect for the rights of another sentient being to live & enjoy the time that the earth has provided for it.
If you look into the sheer environmental aspect of a omnivorous diet, it’s worth it enough to cut your meat consumption by 20%- which is approximately the environmental equivalent of switching to a hybrid car.
To roundabout back the the point: is it considered disrespectful for Americans to protest for the execution of a murderer or to speak openly against that?
Although we see differently, you would likely defend some of your own beliefs to the death as much as a vegan or vegetarian would. Although you may not be as outspoken about whatever your platform in life is, if it were called into question or if the contrary elements of your beliefs were openly paraded in front of your eyes in a murderous fashion every day and you began to see the devastating effects on the world around you, we might see the best come out of your fighting spirit.
Corpses do not make good lunches.
I think the arguement that animals would either be overpopulating earth or either they wouldn’t be here is silly . They are only so great in number bEacause we farm them this way… And they would be far better off fewer in number and free than numerous and in cages. And as for the past back then there was little choice but now we are able to live healthily and well as vegans harming no one and generally being enviromentally friendly. Ifi was stuck on an island with only meat to eat I would revert from veganism to survive, but as I am not in that situation I make the choice to go that bit extra effort and be vegan. We as humans have that ability so we should stop being lazy and make it. And it also annoys me how people go ‘is veganism why your so thin?!!’ and I hate that they think my natural slimness means veganism is unhealthy. I eat much better than my other teen girl friends yet still eat lotsa vegan cake. It’s annoying. Meat eaters are waay more preachy I find