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The most ridiculous argument you've ever heard

 
    • Feminize a dit :...
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    • 14 fév. 2011, 17h42m
    "There is no protein in plants".

    Sure.
    If you want to keep consuming much more protein than your body needs, become fat, and get heart diseases and cancer, so yeah, meat is just for you.

    • SuoD a dit :...
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    • 17 fév. 2011, 2h02m
    Although it's not an "argument" I would love to shate it ... From my grandfather : "Vegeterian? What is this? Can we eat it?" ... Like, yeah!

    "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
  • WOW, how old is your grandfather? 150 years?

    with all due respect, of course (:

  • "But what about plants, they are living organisms as well, with cells and all. How can you eat them?!!!"

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    • 23 fév. 2011, 19h48m
    against eating fish: "but ish is not meat."

    • fuckUtwice a dit :...
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    • 23 fév. 2011, 19h49m
    and another 1: have u ever thought about poor little carrots taken away from their carrot family?

  • yeah, I hate the "but vegetables also feel pain" argument. it's so narrow-minded. people just don't realize that there are various levels of feeling and existing.

  • I've kinda gotten used to getting shit from people for being vegan, and normally just laugh it off (who cares what they think?) but one that really annoyed me was something my aunt said a few months ago.

    She was staying with us, I came downstairs in the morning to see her eating a bowl of cereal. I was in a rush to get to class and just grabbed a piece of toast as we didn't have any fruit or hummus (my typical on the go breakfast for days when I have class). She started giving me shit, asking where the protein in my breakfast was, all while chowing down on her unhealthy cereal.

    I get it.. toast really isn't the quintessential breakfast of champions but I make sure to eat healthy and get all I need. I had to make do with what I had available to me that morning... it happens to all of us, even non vegans/vegetarians.

    The whole thing just struck me as really bitchy and hypocritical.

    • Bathshebaa a dit :...
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    • 26 fév. 2011, 7h32m
    @akatarzynak, I get yelled at by my family every time I skip meals or just like eat fries because there's nothing vegan, but they're always eating something very unhealthy and have no business telling me what to and what not to consume -.-

  • StopDropAndROFL said:
    This isn't the most crazy argument ever but it's one I keep hearing
    "I would go veg*an but I love x too much" where x is some animal product like cheese or leather or something
    Yeah ok so I fucking love eggnog. You have no idea man if eggnog was a person I would marry it and make sweet love to it, that is how much I love eggnog. If I had to rate it out of 10 I would give it a 56. I went vegan during Christmas season while working at a grocery store, so I had to see it and be around it almost everyday for a month or more, and I was able to give that up. If I can do that then you can stop being selfish and give up the thing you like


    I don't know if they sell this in your area, but you should try it if you happen to come across it during the holiday season:

    http://silksoymilk.com/products/silk-seasonal/nog

    I think it tastes better than regular eggnog :P

    • megsupafly a dit :...
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    • 28 fév. 2011, 0h06m
    I was wasting fossil fuels.

    -____-

    • griesi86 a dit :...
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    • 5 mars 2011, 10h55m
    The most stupid one I've heard (from an ing. of agriculture) was:

    "...but the pets would eat you too. Even a cow will eat you, when it's really hungry!"

    oh, and the other one, I have to listen too quite often from people who are studing with me:

    "Organic Agriculture is not possible without pets, especially without cows..."

    Ok, the first one is worse than this, but there is more truth in it, than in the second one.
    An this is why I'm doing research about vegan organic farming, because it is possible.

    • MhhhKathi a dit :...
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    • 7 mars 2011, 23h22m
    "it's so healthy to eat meat"

    so my question was: "what is in the meat that makes it so healthy? tell me one ingredient that plants can't provide!"

    answer: "ehm... eeehm... meat provides EVERYTHING that your body needs!!!"


    ...yes. sure. we all heard about those mysterious meat vitamins.

  • griesi86 said:
    The most stupid one I've heard (from an ing. of agriculture) was:

    "Organic Agriculture is not possible without pets, especially without cows..."

    Ok, the first one is worse than this, but there is more truth in it, than in the second one.
    An this is why I'm doing research about vegan organic farming, because it is possible.
    I have heard a similar argument, and while the accuracy of the statement is certainly beyond me I had a simple (and I believe effective) response to it: Granting that everything I was told was in fact accurate it still didn't mean that cows had to be killed. There was nothing in the argument that said the process of killing cows was necessary for soil revitalization (or whatever the point of it was) but rather only that cows needed to be alive. So I mentioned it would be an easy matter to continue on with a managable amount of cows (and other "needeed" animals) and that this would be a distinct matter from the act of killing them. The response was that it just wouldn't be economically feasable. I considered this a lame defense and the exchange stopped at this point.

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    • 9 mars 2011, 18h01m
    There are so many! One is like this:

    Me: "Milking cows is stealing, since it's their milk."

    Them: "...stealing from cows..."

    Another:
    "Well, God created animals for us to eat."

    And another:
    "Animals are so yummy, so I'll keep eating them."

    And another:
    "The body NEEDS meat to be healthy."

    And another!
    "Animals don't have souls."
    Apparently you're willing to take away the only life you believe they will ever have. How nice.

    And one more:
    Them: "They're just animals; they're below us. And besides, there are animals who eat other animals, so I don't see a problem."

    Me: "But they don't know any better."

    Them: "Exactly!"

  • I think that the best is that one about fish... "But, Vinicius, fish isn't meat" and I'm used to hear another: "But fish don't think" - I breathe and think: "Oh! Neither you... Neither you"

    • [Utilisateur supprimé] a dit :...
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    • 17 mars 2011, 19h09m
    I've never heard an argument against vegetarianism that wasn't terrible.

  • I've never heard an argument against vegetarianism that wasn't terrible.


    right!

  • "If it was the other way around, animals would eat you." At this point, I say that some animals would be humanitarian. ;)

    "Tell me you want me. Tell me you love me."
    • kopfzoo a dit :...
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    • 30 jui. 2011, 15h10m
    I've heard nearly every argument yet mentioned. (How sad.) So I won't repeat them, but I have one to add:
    "But the animals want to be eaten." (It was not meant 100% seriously but still it was the point in a long discussion about vegetarianism where I just could resignate.)

    Die Welt ist krank und der Arzt hat frei.
    • SGDminea a dit :...
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    • 30 jui. 2011, 19h04m
    "animals are meant to be eaten"
    "animals would die anyway"
    "what about the dairy producers' lifelihood"
    and the most retarded and thoughtless one
    "poor people in africa don't have the possibility to act picky and difficult as you do"

    Tonzura koite!
    • Alfa-Beta a dit :...
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    • 31 jui. 2011, 8h40m
    My favourite argument is definitely:
    "How do you know that the vegetables you eat feel no pain?"

    I also enjoy hearing:
    "If people didn't eat animals, they would already be extinguished, anyway."
    "Fish isn't meat."
    "And what about the poor people who don't have a choice like you do?"
    "So what's wrong with milk? They don't kill cows, anyway". - To which I usually answer: "No, of course not. They just make a profit out of their suffering and, when they no longer can be exploited, are killed."

    • NSHPixie a dit :...
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    • 18 août 2011, 0h10m
    The whole "I like it" so I will continue eating it thing really pisses me off, just because it is what's considered normal, I don't think many know what the impact really is. Also when anyone says it's natural, while they are eating abboitar meat from a conveyor belt/factory, are you kidding!

    • diedoor a dit :...
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    • 19 août 2011, 12h46m
    "One person can't make a difference."
    Not with that thought in mind, no.

    Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
  • "Vegetables are too expensive."

    -unlike say, a computer, cell phone, mp3 player etc.

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