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I Am Ashamed to Be a Vegetarian
pjmedia.com ^ | 10/13/2014 | Zombie

Posted on 10/15/2014 7:48:35 AM PDT by rktman

I’m a vegetarian. I haven’t eaten meat in 20 years.

Up until this morning I was OK with my dietary choice.

But then I saw this video just uploaded by “Direct Action Everywhere,” a radical vegetarian activist gang, and now I am ashamed. Ashamed to be associated with them. Ashamed that everyone I meet must think I’m some sort of anti-meat revolutionary. Ashamed that mean-spirited lunatics have hijacked my personal food preference and turned it into rallyng cry for passive-aggressive bullying.

Watch and weep, as a contingent of vegetarian fascists burst into a random restaurant in San Francisco and try to pull some kind of creepy mind-game on the bewildered diners:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: animalrights; bullying; dae; directaction; foodnazis; militantleft; mypetchicken; veganfascism; veganistas; vegetarians
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Zombie post. It may have been posted under another title regarding the lady and her pet chicken. Just Zombie's look at the dipsticks. They probably sit in the forest and cry and wail over a fallen tree.
1 posted on 10/15/2014 7:48:35 AM PDT by rktman
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fanaticism....yes....we even see that here on FR from time to time.


2 posted on 10/15/2014 7:53:27 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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There is a strong totalitarian streak in too many people pushing whatever cause they believe in.

It sounds like this writer is a vegetarian, for whatever personal reasons, but does not want to impose that status on others.

Face it, whether the issue is homosexuality, saving the whales, global warming, alleged racism, or any other cause you can think of, the loudest most active people are also the most obnoxious and most totalitarian in their thinking. And if they had the power, those supporting those causes want to impose their views on the rest of us.


3 posted on 10/15/2014 8:00:34 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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ChickenBoo


4 posted on 10/15/2014 8:00:42 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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This is ridiculous all the way around.

In the first place, the writer is awfully concerned about what other people think.

And in the second place--such bullying is characteristic of those disgusting people who call themselves progressives or liberals or whatever the Orwellian newspeak du jour. They are determined to control everyone and everything. They are narrow-minded, dogmatic, and the opposite of liberal. And they have only contempt for liberty and individual freedom.

I saw these people for what they are many years ago, and time and careful observation have only confirmed my conclusions about them.

I have been a vegetarian for many years. It has nothing to do with anyone but me.

I certainly don't feel guilty or apologetic--or anything else--because of a bunch of thugs.

5 posted on 10/15/2014 8:02:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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6 posted on 10/15/2014 8:02:36 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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A free-range steer grazing on ten acres of grass and slaughtered for meat kills one life form.

Ten acres plowed, harrowed, fertilized and otherwise cultivated for soybeans kills hundreds of thousands of worms, bugs, mice and other pests either through direct action or destruction of habitat.

I eat meat because it is kinder to my animal friends.


7 posted on 10/15/2014 8:02:58 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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Well, my first reaction was to note (AGAIN) how stupid it is to feel guilt or shame over something that someone else did.

For the record, I personally apologize for all of the Greek city-state wars. I can do that according to today's standards because no one in my family has ever lived anywhere near Greece. /sarc/

8 posted on 10/15/2014 8:03:37 AM PDT by Pecos (That government governs best which governs least.)
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To: Savage Beast
NEVER FORGET:
9 posted on 10/15/2014 8:09:20 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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I love vegetables and always have...even as a kid.Other than lima beans,Brussels sprouts,eggplant and squash I love *all* vegetables.And I must say that they go well with a nice juicy sirloin,hot buttered rolls and a fruit cup for desert.
10 posted on 10/15/2014 8:11:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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Zombie has done tremendous work in the past. Spectacular really.

I’ll cut her some slack here. She doesn’t need to feel guilty about anything.


11 posted on 10/15/2014 8:18:27 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: Savage Beast

Pretty sure Zombie was being tongue in cheek. Or tofu in cheek.


12 posted on 10/15/2014 8:19:34 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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It’s about time you apologized for all those Greeks! I thought you would never admit your guilt! ; )


13 posted on 10/15/2014 8:22:31 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Hey, Zombie, whatever you do, don’t get into the meat habit with Liberian monkey meat.


14 posted on 10/15/2014 8:23:42 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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Maybe I’m wrong but can any one name one conservative cause where the people act like these idiots on the left!!!


15 posted on 10/15/2014 8:26:58 AM PDT by ontap
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Vegans... Helpless plants are ripped from gaia’s womb by these depraved monsters. Join People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants (PETP) and help stop this heartbreaking tragedy.


16 posted on 10/15/2014 8:28:24 AM PDT by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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Think of all the carrots they have killed by yanking them out of the ground!

The photo shows some very scary people. They vote democrat!


17 posted on 10/15/2014 8:33:16 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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A few years ago we were having dinner with several college age skulls full of mush. When someone asked why one of them was a vegetarian while eating a such a great restaurant , she said “it’s because I am saving the rain forest in Brazil”.

No more questions for her.


18 posted on 10/15/2014 8:34:12 AM PDT by Ditter
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I’m guessing they were never treated to hearing a tomato scream when being slaughtered.


19 posted on 10/15/2014 8:38:59 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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I’m fully supportive of anyone who simply feels that it’s a healthier choice for them (which, depending on one’s physiological makeup, it may well be). What I’m always amused by are those who say they want to save the animals. Really, which animals are those? The ones who simply won’t exist if you have your way? It’s not like people are going to keep cows as pets. I mean, I don’t approve of unnecessary cruelty, but frankly, when a cow enters the slaughterhouse, he/she is achieving their highest career goal.

The ones who really crack me up, though, are the ones who go all Hindu and claim that it’s good karma to abstain from eating meat. Sure, that works. Except that, based on the law of karma, the cow has it coming, so why should I feel bad about being an instrument of cosmic justice?


20 posted on 10/15/2014 8:43:56 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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