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12-13-2016 , 12:07 AM

#3326

problemeliminator

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loool does your friend expect anyone to believe that?

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12-13-2016 , 12:08 AM

#3327

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Originally Posted by Rexx14

You really do come across as a horribly hateful and unhappy person Amazin. You aren't a very sound advertisement for going vegan tbh.

if you believe 99% of people are literal genocidal murderers and rapists its kind of unavoidable.

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12-13-2016 , 12:17 AM

#3328

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Originally Posted by problemeliminator

if you believe 99% of people are literal genocidal murderers and rapists its kind of unavoidable.

Far less than 99%

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12-13-2016 , 12:21 AM

#3329

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oh, more than one percent of the world population is vegan?

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12-13-2016 , 12:29 AM

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Nah, but I don't consider a non-vegan 9 year old child a rapist or murderer

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12-13-2016 , 12:43 AM

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i amend my statement to say "99% of the adult population"

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12-13-2016 , 12:53 AM

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Since there is no statute of limitations on murder what should your sentence be amazin?

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12-13-2016 , 01:38 AM

#3333

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Originally Posted by amazinmets73

Written by a friend:

I will NEVER understand people who claim that veganism is hard.

I became vegan the very same day that I learned about the word "vegan", while still a teenager, in the early 1990s, long before the Internet age, with zero support, and knowing no other vegans, and having access to no special vegan foods like faux meats or cheeses or desserts, as an unemployed, dirt poor college student, still living with my parents, who were extremely antagonistic about my decision, and constantly berated me and reminded me that "God put animals on this earth for us to eat!", and "In this house, we eat meat!".

I didn't care about any of that. I had discovered a horrible truth, and all I wanted to do was fix it. Even on the day that I came home from school completely off guard to find the locks changed and all of my worldly possessions on the porch, and a note explaining that "If I wanted to live life my way, I could go live it somewhere else.", despite the fact that I really had nowhere to go and nowhere to keep my stuff.

Long story short, I became homeless, had to drop out of school, and lost everything but the clothes on my back. I learned how to fend for myself. I learned how to be a survivor. I learned how to get food and clothing and shelter, and did all of this without ever asking a single animal to be killed or inconvenienced for my sake. In fact, the thought never occurred to me to do so.

Never at any time did I think that any of this was "hard". No one was locking me up in a pen, or chopping off chunks of my face, or tearing out my testicles, or suffocating me in a giant bag, or tossing my body into a grinder, or raping me, or stealing my children, or smashing my head against a concrete wall, or punching a bolt into my skull, or hanging me upside down and slitting my throat until the blood ran dry. Those things, I will grant, are "hard". Sure, I had a few minor challenges like "Where am going to sleep tonight?" and "When am I going to eat next?", but these were minor hurdles that worked themselves out with a little ambition and perseverance.

To be honest, I think my greatest benefit was that all of this happened long before the Internet age, and long before veganism was poisoned by an army of self-serving, weak-willed, animal haters who went around spreading the myth that veganism WAS hard, and since it was so hard, you could ignore your conscience and take as long as you liked to make this "transition".

Sounds like a BS made up story written by yourself, but yeah, being vegan, at least the diet, which most people consider to be the most difficult aspect, is not really hard. Friend (you) also seems pretty ******ed on what vegetarianism was like in the early 1990's. Plenty of those fake burgers to be had by then. This moron's plight is not as significant as he/she would like you to think it is, but the starving homeless person looking for a grain of rice instead of a half-eaten burger was a nice touch!

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12-13-2016 , 01:54 AM

#3334

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Originally Posted by Land O Lakes

but yeah, being vegan, at least the diet, which most people consider to be the most difficult aspect, is not really hard if you don't like the taste of good food.

fyp

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12-13-2016 , 02:27 AM

#3335

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Originally Posted by lonely_but_rich

Have you ever taken an IQ test, Amazin?

You cannot make brain tissue without animal fats. You cannot make many neurotransmitters without cholesterol. As soon as you go vegan your brain quite literally begins to atrophy. That Amazin and his ilk aren't very bright is no mystery.

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12-13-2016 , 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by froegg

that sounds wrong but i dont know enough about science to dispute it.

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12-13-2016 , 03:57 AM

#3337

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Originally Posted by froegg

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405188/

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12-13-2016 , 12:07 PM

#3338

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Originally Posted by amazinmets73

Tl;dr

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12-13-2016 , 12:11 PM

#3339

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For Amazin Too Dumb Didn't Read would be more accurate

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12-13-2016 , 03:05 PM

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amazin neatly sidesteps all criticism of his thought processes by quoting a "friend".

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12-13-2016 , 06:16 PM

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I imagine this is exactly the kind of mockery the free-the-slaves people got when they tried to argue against slavery on moral grounds.

amazin is on the right side of history for sure.

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12-13-2016 , 06:20 PM

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Yeah because the people who did free the slaves actually had a bit of slaves as well but they just ignored any questions asked about them.

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12-13-2016 , 06:24 PM

#3343

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Originally Posted by ToothSayer

I imagine this is exactly the kind of mockery the free-the-slaves people got when they tried to argue against slavery on moral grounds.

amazin is on the right side of history for sure.

Doesn't make him not a terrible person, of course.

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12-13-2016 , 07:50 PM

#3344

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Originally Posted by Yakmelk

Yeah because the people who did free the slaves actually had a bit of slaves as well but they just ignored any questions asked about them.

Basically true

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12-14-2016 , 12:39 AM

#3345

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Originally Posted by ToothSayer

I imagine this is exactly the kind of mockery the free-the-slaves people got when they tried to argue against slavery on moral grounds.

Yeah, but did they not own slaves just to feel more virtuous?

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12-30-2016 , 04:21 PM

#3346

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Amazin,

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/bus...ding/95979636/

Given these two options:

1) buy pork chops, mulefoot pigs get raised and slaughtered, the breed is raised and survives.

2) don't buy pork chops, the breed is no longer raised and goes extinct.

Given only these two options, which would you recommend?