Posted on 04/25/2016 6:28:06 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
MIAMI (AP) — Even the wellbeing of rats, roaches and spiders are a concern for animal activists. But they also pose ethical dilemmas for owners of vegan restaurants who need to keep those pests out of their kitchens while trying to abide by no-kill values.
Melanie Cochran, owner of The Wild Cow Vegetarian Restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, was adamant about not using traditional pest control services when it first opened. For a few years she was able to keep pests at bay, but when the restaurant developed a problem, she called an exterminator even though she said it went against her vegan principles.
“We have to focus on the bigger picture. Vegan restaurants need to stay in business as a way to put a dent in the dominance of the factory farm system. We want to show people that it is possible and easy to reduce one’s meat intake, or even eliminate it entirely,” she said.
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Sean Hannity had an engineer on his radio program who was a hippy-dippy leftist. She was a radical animal rights activist, and one year for her birthday Sean gave her a live lobster from that “livelob” website.
What did she do with it? She took it to the neighborhood pond and “set it free”. It swam around for a few minutes in the non-salt water environment and died.
Feeding them to the red-tailed Hawks seems like a good idea.
How do these people think we got to the top of the food chain?
Whenever I hear or see the word “vegan,” I have an almost uncontrollable urge to fry up some bacon.
Now that’s worthy of a bumper sticker!
If God didn’t want us to eat animals, He wouldn’t have made them out of meat.
It seems they need vegetables that are high enough on the food chain to hunt down and eat those insects.
Cattle farming isn’t the factory production problem. Those cattle are grass fed beef. Once the full grown cattle leave the ranch, they go to the feed lot where they are finished out..ie fattened up.
THIS is where the factory production begins. This is where they are kept in crowded pens and fed corn, silage, and other things to fatten them up before they are sent to the kill plants.
I am putting this out there for those who don’t really know the process here in the states.
Most American grown beef is exported over seas where it commands much higher prices than American markets pay. Most of the beef we eat in the usa is grown in Argentina which is in Western South America.
So when you see “heavy western beef” on the package, you need to ask yourself which country?
I have no idea how other countries raise their beef, or what’s permitted in the feed or what’s permitted to ne sprayed on the vegrtation used to make the feed.
I only know that the usa has very strict laws regarding the raising and handling of beef and what can be sprayed as pesticides on potential cattle feed.
Many countries won’t have anything to do with gmo products so I don’t know how that impacts beef they might import from the usa which is finished out on gmo corn and soy.
There ARE places here in the states where you can purchase grass fed beef to butcher as is, or finish out yourself.
Uh, sure. Right. I'll do just that.
What is it with Kobe? Why is it so expensive?
The point is vegans are killing something to eat just like animals killing other animals to eat. Something alive dies to feed something else alive. Embryos die because of selfish desires. Besides, what does one’s ability to convey pain have to do with anything? I can think of plenty of scenarios where pain could not be conveyed, but real. Inflicting pain is A-ok as long as the object of pain can’t convey it?
All organic strawberries come from root stock that is grown in ground fumigated with methyl bromide. Can’t be done any other way.
The Vegans? I should say not!.
“even though she said it went against her vegan principles. “
It actually went against her profit principles.
Fer cryin' out loud. The rats and roaches.
The vegans you would smoke low and slow. Preferably with mesquite.
'Course west of the Mississippi you'd use a dry rub, east of the Mississipp you'd brush on sauce.
Phew! For a moment there your crazy talk had me concerned. Carry on.
The world has gone crazy but it hasn’t gone THAT crazy.
Squirrel Launcher...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fINmQ633tQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAd3ALa—gg
Build little homes for the cockroaches and other freeloaders complete with little signs instructing them that “caring” individuals have provided them with comfortable housing and free vittles, not to mention birthing facilities for the millions and millions of offspring (they’re sort of like the welfare folks in the U.S. that way, very prolific breeders).
Better accelerate the homebuilding, good people!
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