That’s not the impression I get when I see a poll questioning someone’s diet and then the OP goes on about how we should think about how the food on our plate ended up there. Then after that, people started coming in with arguments that supported a vegetarian diet.
I viewed your profile. Over 6000 posts and you havent made any friends. Why is that?
Personally, for me it is about the diseases that are spread from the farms and the wasted resources and the tainted water and food. As well, as the treatment.It is for me, especially when people who disagree don’t like it and can’t make a comeback.
Look I’ve seen enough of how animals gets slaughtered but as cold-hearted I may seem to you, I don’t feel sorry for them. Last time I saw a documentary in a slaughterhouse over here, I felt more sorry for the child laborers those people used.
Also, you forget that God gave man dominion over all creation. We are called to take care of it, but it doesn’t mean we can’t utilize or exploit its resources. There’s a difference between a kid taking care of his toy yet still plays with it and an obsessed geek who doesn’t even take the same toy out of its box for fear of damaging it.
Being concerned about FACTORY FARMING** is **helping people!!! Human beings are paying a large price for not paying attention to how, and under what conditions their meat is produced, It is absolutely and entirely possible to be an omnivore and to be concerned about factory farming.
I don’t know man. I think there’s something really wrong when people equate real animals with those you see in Disney movies. :nope:
scatters“Morally Superior”?
honestly, to have a respectful discussion of the issues of factory farming, the impact of factory farming on limited resources and the environment and how that resonates with my understanding of Catholic Social Teaching and faith.
25% of young children today are obese and bordering on type 2 diabetes from eating the typical american diet. unfortunately nobody thinks there is anything wrong with that.
That’s quite a stretch. Not all slaughterhouses use child labor.
Ummmm - how is that a stretch?
Lets take this as a liner thought -
As for the American Indian burial ground - you will have to explain if that was humor or had some connection to this discussion because I can’t make the connection.
- You said that you saw that in slaughter houses they used child labor
- You said you like to eat meat
- When you eat meat you therefore are contributing to child labor.
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I think it taste good because you are used to eating it. I make a lot of food that uses ‘fake meat’ - it isn’t about the taste, but about the source. So I can make food using tofu, wheat gluten, textured vegetable protein and make it taste like meat.Then explain to me why meat tastes good, why it’s been part of the human diet for centuries, and why chickens are otherwise the most useless birds in the animal kingdom if not for their role in my breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I’m all for quoting Bible verses but make sure your interpretations of them are compatible with reality.
I can see where people can use cows for plowing and milk but I can’t say the same for the likes of pigs, chickens, turkeys, lobsters, crabs etc. And if you’re going to suggest using them as pets, not everybody’s a pet person (including me). Pigs rival skunks on my list of smelliest animals in the world and the only fun I get out of chickens is by scaring the bejeezus out of 'em. That’s why I call 'em CHICKENS!! Bukbukbukbuk!!
If you are trying to be funny with all the rest of the stuff, honestly it isn’t coming across that way - humor is hard to do when just typing - hard to hear the tone - so - hope you will take my response in the spirit it is offered.
Commit to sustainable development, fight global warming, Vatican tells U.N.
Where will the babies live? What will they eat?Think aout it. If all the food and water is polluted,… if all the land is used up from feeding food that could feed people…
Yeah. I get a little irritated. I realize that I am not say ing it to the same person everytime, either. I don’t believe that what I am sayig is without merit.It is just falling on closed minds.
The poll was put there after words by a thread highjacker and antagonist.That’s not the impression I get when I see a poll questioning someone’s diet and then the OP goes on about how we should think about how the food on our plate ended up there. Then after that, people started coming in with arguments that supported a vegetarian diet.
Make sure next time that when one starts a thread, they get straight to the point and are ready to shift back to the topic at hand when it starts veering. :tsktsk:
do you walk up to random people on the street, interrupt their conversations, and tell them that their discussion is not worthy because it isn’t about making life better for humans? and if they don’t start talking about what you think is worthy, do you jump up and down, insult them, and scream about abortion? because that is what you’re doing here.nice try trying to divert attention from the primary point…
animals are not created in God’s image; people are and so, why are we wasting time on animal’s rights when so many humans don’t have any.?
A little off topic. But, I used to raise chickens. Rhode Island Reds. I was picking up straw for the hen house one day and a rooster Jet Li-ed me right in the face. He cut my lip and and scratched my throat! This was efore I went Vegan. Guess what I had for dinner that night?I don’t know man. I think there’s something really wrong when people equate real animals with those you see in Disney movies. :nope:
My neighbor’s front yard is my store’s back yard and he just lets his chickens roam wherever they please. I’ve got nothing against him but since the current weather here forces one to open doors to cool off the heat, those chickens tend to “wander” at times. There was one time where they managed to even get behind the counter!
Chickens: Bukbukbuk! pecks floor
Me: Shoo!! Git!! RAAAWWWRR!!! D8< chases them out
Chickens: Bakuuuuuuuk!!!
Me: heaves D8<
P.S.
As for the meat in factories. Well, I leave that up to you. I’m not fond of factories putting unhealthy stuff in food anyways. However, I’m not letting anybody stop me if someone here starts saying I’m a cold-hearted murderer just cuz I enjoy a good meaty stew if you know what I mean.
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Pope Benedict XVI has stated that human “dominion” over animals does not justify factory farming. While head of the Roman Catholic Church’s Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the future pope condemned the “industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds.” This “degrading of living creatures to a commodity” seemed to him “to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.” ----
Is that so? I didn’t know you could do that.
stomach growlsA little off topic. But, I used to raise chickens. Rhode Island Reds. I was picking up straw for the hen house one day and a rooster Jet Li-ed me right in the face. He cut my lip and and scratched my throat! This was efore I went Vegan. Guess what I had for dinner that night?
A rhode Island red rooster is about the size of a turkey.
I read that story too. I’ve also read about many parents to have fed their children fast food that has lead to diabetes, obesity, -----