LOL. What an ignorant, obnoxious post.
I eat meat, btw, but don’t have some perverted knee-jerk reaction to people who are vegetarians. (rolls eyes)
My children are carnivores. I buy and serve them meat. I'm certainly not on some crusade for vegetarianism and against eating meat. I just don't like eating meat myself; it's my own personal preference.
A dear friend invited me to dinner. She surprised me with venison and a splendid wine to go with it. She considered this a treat. Of course, I accepted her gift with gratitude and appreciation, and I ate the venison and thanked her for it.
I was raised by stern parents to be tough. I am definitely an alpha-male, and I have always been highly motivated and highly successful in every endeavor I've undertaken. (If you had had my parents, you would have managed to be tough, highly motivated, highly successful and an alpha too. Perhaps you were naturally.) My mother was every bit as tough-minded as my father. They were determined to "make a man out of me"--which in their warped thinking meant transforming a boy/man into a brute.
Fortunately, I was a helluva lot smarter than both of them, and I rejected most of their more stupid ideas.
My wife--fortunately--was also a lot smarter than my parents, and she has been a godsend.
It doesn't take great intelligence to know the difference between a man and a brute.
I'm not suggesting that people who eat meat are brutes. I'm saying that I don't like to eat meat--that's all--and that I am a man, not a brute.
There's a great book and movie--The Yearling--that deals with this subject.
In order to survive, we must all--men and women--steel ourselves to some of the harsh realities of life. We must be strong. We must be tough. We must prevail over adversity. But it is not necessary for us to become brutes. (I'm not calling you a brute, PL. What I'm saying is not directed at you or your post; please don't think that it is.)
“LOL. What an ignorant, obnoxious post.
I eat meat, btw, but don’t have some perverted knee-jerk reaction to people who are vegetarians. (rolls eyes)”
Why, aren’t you special. heh
I usually don’t either, but I find people who feel it necessary to advertise they’re vegetarian as obnoxious as you apparently find me. ;-)
There’s nothing inherently virtuous about vegetarianism, it’s simply an eccentricity.