Death, Lies, & Videotape

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redhen said:
Drawmack, I just wanted to stress that I wasn’t making any moral judgments about you (or anyone else) personally, but rather I was questioning our treatment and use of animals in general. As I said before, I do eat meat, but it causes me some degree of distress whenever I think how it ended up on my plate. I suppose that’s why most people don’t think about that topic. That’s probably why this video was posted in the first place, to remind them of that which they repress from their consciousness.

Now, I may be all wrong. I may be just a soft-hearted fool. My friends and family certainly think so. Then again, these same people also think I’m **crazy **for wanting to learn more about Catholicism. 🤷

p.s. I learned an important lesson 14 years ago about netiquette. At the dawn of the Web, my silly political website I made garnered news attention that I hadn’t intended. After that incident I always considered whatever I posted via the Internet as if everyone knew my real name and where I lived. Even though the chances are slim that someone could “out” me here on this forum, this attitude helps me to keep my tone civil.

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I helped write the rules of netiquette. I’ve been a professional web-developer almost since the term was born (1997). But, I’m not perfect.

It’s not you redhen. I think that most people feel like you do, they just want to share their personal knowledge and the conclusions they’ve drawn from it. Yet, they, all to often, drop the personal pronoun from their writing. They say things like “Americans…”, “People …”, “Rational people …”, “People who don’t feel like me …”. If everyone would read what they write and take special care to replace all of these impersonal pronouns with personal pronouns and all of the negatives about others with positives about oneself then I wouldn’t have any problem with what people say.

But, as it is far too many people say things that are worded as judgments against others, then they want to come back and say I wasn’t being judgmental. Just be more careful in the first place. If you are talking for yourself, then talk for yourself. If you don’t want to judge me then don’t talk, implicitly or explicitly, about me.
 
vz71 said:
Thanks.
I too have little difficulty eating something that was considered a pet mere hours ago.
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On a farm there are no pets. The cats are for rodent control. The dogs help heard the animals and possibly hunt. Every animal on a farm has a job, including the people. That job maybe to provide food (lethal to the animal or otherwise) or money, but every animal has a job.

P.S. Wouldn’t it be better so say I … instead of Some Americans …?
 
Drawmack said:
On a farm there are no pets. The cats are for rodent control. The dogs help heard the animals and possibly hunt. Every animal on a farm has a job, including the people. That job maybe to provide food (lethal to the animal or otherwise) or money, but every animal has a job.

P.S. Wouldn’t it be better so say I … instead of Some Americans …?
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Pretty much true, but we still wouldn’t have eaten Socks for supper.😉 Not with all those tapeworms from catching rats & rabbits, anyway.:eek:
 
Cracker_Mom said:
What if a family shops at Piggly Wiggly & offers you grilled chicken from Claxton’s best modern chicken houses? Does hospitality stop then?😉
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As those who would be inviting me to dinner at their homes already know that I chose a vegan diet here in the US - it is easy, we generally just pot luck, or eat the salads. Hospitality and mutual respect make this possible among people who know and love each other.

When I travel, I am staying with people who don’t know me, and I have no thought that they should do anything to accommodate me since it is generally a sacrifice they make to offer that hospitality to a visitor.
 
vz71 said:
That is good to know.
Thank you.

I see this as a victory of principles over symbolism.
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I see it as trying to live my faith in different situations… my mother used to say situations alter faces like broken noses alter faces 😉
 
4elise said:
As those who would be inviting me to dinner at their homes already know that I chose a vegan diet here in the US - it is easy, we generally just pot luck, or eat the salads. Hospitality and mutual respect make this possible among people who know and love each other.

When I travel, I am staying with people who don’t know me, and I have no thought that they should do anything to accommodate me since it is generally a sacrifice they make to offer that hospitality to a visitor.
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Not to be difficult, but it sounds like different standards of hospitality.If you travel to an exotic location like Peach Bloom, La. & are not personally acquainted with the family who helps you after your car breaks down, would you turn down the gumbo offered back at their home because it contains Tyson chicken?
 
Cracker_Mom said:
Not to be difficult, but it sounds like different standards of hospitality.If you travel to an exotic location like Peach Bloom, La. & are not personally acquainted with the family who helps you after your car breaks down, would you turn down the gumbo offered back at their home because it contains Tyson chicken?
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Simple answer - not if I judged it would be offensive to these kind people.

Of course as exotic as Peach Bloom, LA is - I do believe that people there may be familiar with the concept of vegetarians and if I were given the opportunity to share this without being offensive, I could enjoy the red beans and rice.
 
4elise said:
Simple answer - not if I judged it would be offensive to these kind people.

Of course as exotic as Peach Bloom, LA is - I do believe that people there may be familiar with the concept of vegetarians and if I were given the opportunity to share this without being offensive, I could enjoy the red beans and rice.
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We have family in that part of the world & believe me they have no concept of a vegetarian meal:) It’s all rice & meat, rice & meat, rice & meat…Or maybe rice & frogs, rice & crawfish, rice & nutria…😉
 
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