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So I read the Comics Curmudgeon, and it tends to have ads about how awful it is to eat meat. I got tired of the "watch this video omg it will change how you think about meat wowzers!" ad that's been running lately, so I went ahead and watched it. (Warning: they're trying to ick and/or sentiment you out with this, so you should probably not watch it A) if you're about to eat, or B) with your speakers on so that you can hear the whiny music they put it to.)
Excuse me while I take a big bite of this leftover pizza which has chicken on it.
Newsflash: some things are unpleasant. Some chicken farmers slice off the ends of the chickens' beaks. Some, uh... I don't know what you call their occupation, cow slaughterer guys... some cow slaughterer guys hang up the cows, cut their throats, then wander off and leave the cows still alive and kicking as they slowly bleed out.
Some parents savagely beat their children. Perhaps there should be a video showing THAT, teaching everyone how no one should ever have children again.1 Oh, wait. That reasoning only applies to eating meat? You're sure? Okay then. All this meat-eating must have addled my tiny, tiny brain. All this delicious meat, that we buy from hippy-dippy free-range places, where the animals probably get more fresh air and sunshine than I do. DELICIOUS.
Sure, sure, I get it. Humans evolved to be herbivores! They evolved to get their protein from all the convenient products you can find in your grocery store, like soy milk and tofu and what are apparently called, with a straight face, "fib ribs". EVOLUTION CAN SEE THE FUTURE AND PLANS ACCORDINGLY.
Or, you know, we've evolved to get protein and Vitamin K and things like that from animal flesh, seeing as that was the main source of said nutrients for protohumanity for billions of years.
Why do I have to do ALL the thinking around here?
So in conclusion: meat is delicious, and some children are beaten, abused, raped, tortured and killed by their parents therefore everyone in the world should pursue child-free alternatives see this video I took totally proves it. THE END.
Mumble.
1. I am determined to never have children PERSONALLY, of course, and I think that a lot of people have children who shouldn't, especially while so many kids reach adulthood in the foster system without ever really having a family. I ascribe to the radical belief that we should perhaps slow down on the breeding in general until we make sure we have a decent situation for the people who already exist, before we crap out more infants doomed to suffer. However, I do not call for, seek or want a total end to child-bearing, seeing as how that would, y'know, end the human race. Please do not conflate these two stances on the kid issue.
I should probably standardize on all-caps, bold, or italics eventually.
Excuse me while I take a big bite of this leftover pizza which has chicken on it.
Newsflash: some things are unpleasant. Some chicken farmers slice off the ends of the chickens' beaks. Some, uh... I don't know what you call their occupation, cow slaughterer guys... some cow slaughterer guys hang up the cows, cut their throats, then wander off and leave the cows still alive and kicking as they slowly bleed out.
Some parents savagely beat their children. Perhaps there should be a video showing THAT, teaching everyone how no one should ever have children again.1 Oh, wait. That reasoning only applies to eating meat? You're sure? Okay then. All this meat-eating must have addled my tiny, tiny brain. All this delicious meat, that we buy from hippy-dippy free-range places, where the animals probably get more fresh air and sunshine than I do. DELICIOUS.
Sure, sure, I get it. Humans evolved to be herbivores! They evolved to get their protein from all the convenient products you can find in your grocery store, like soy milk and tofu and what are apparently called, with a straight face, "fib ribs". EVOLUTION CAN SEE THE FUTURE AND PLANS ACCORDINGLY.
Or, you know, we've evolved to get protein and Vitamin K and things like that from animal flesh, seeing as that was the main source of said nutrients for protohumanity for billions of years.
Why do I have to do ALL the thinking around here?
So in conclusion: meat is delicious, and some children are beaten, abused, raped, tortured and killed by their parents therefore everyone in the world should pursue child-free alternatives see this video I took totally proves it. THE END.
Mumble.
1. I am determined to never have children PERSONALLY, of course, and I think that a lot of people have children who shouldn't, especially while so many kids reach adulthood in the foster system without ever really having a family. I ascribe to the radical belief that we should perhaps slow down on the breeding in general until we make sure we have a decent situation for the people who already exist, before we crap out more infants doomed to suffer. However, I do not call for, seek or want a total end to child-bearing, seeing as how that would, y'know, end the human race. Please do not conflate these two stances on the kid issue.
I should probably standardize on all-caps, bold, or italics eventually.
