Fielding Questions

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Hey Stef,

 

I actually like it when people challenge me. If they

are doing it just for a fight I can at least provide a

logical rebuttle and maybe get a few other people

thinking. Otherwise, I may actually plant (no pun

intended) some new thoughts into my challenger's mind.

A couple of things I like to do in those

situations...

 

1.) You can migrate from the " animal rights "

justification to either a health justification or food

availability (eating lower on the food chain)

discussion.

 

2.) The biological composition of any plant is far

different from animals. True plants grow, but I've

never found a plant with a true beating heart, a

brain, etc.

 

3.) Just to throw this one in because I used it

yesterday...somebody commented about soymilk and that

it is processed and unnatural...to which my response

was " I wonder who looked at the udder of a cow and

said 'boy does that look yummy' " .

 

--- wrote:

 

> Message: 3

> Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:46:57 -0000

> " steffdav46 " <steffdav46

> Re: Fielding Questions/ Yet again

>

> Earlier this month we were talking about comments

> of non-

> vegetarians and I just had a real (what I consider)

> stupid one happen

> this week so I thought that I would share. We went

> to visit my step-

> daughter, her new baby, and the baby's father for

> the day. My step-

> daughter has absolutley no problem that I am

> vegetarian and made both

> a beautiful lunch and dinner that was vegetarian,

> but her

> partner.....He is a teacher and supposively a well

> schooled man and

> he said that he had a question that's been on his

> mind. I'm

> thinking, " Oh great :0( . " I hate it when people

> expect me

> to " justify " being a vegetarian. So, he says to me

> that he feels that

> plants are just as alive as animals, and that I am

> putting undue

> stress on the plants of the planet. Geez Louise ! I

> told him that I

> didn't feel that I had to justify vegetarians to him

> but that if he

> felt that strongly about the " soul " of plants, how

> can he eat them?

> He said that, to live he has to eat so people should

> eat everything

> in moderation. I told him that I wouldn't eat

> anything that I could

> consider a pet. He's just looking for a

> confrontation but, to be

> honest, since he kept pushing it, it kinda ruined

> part of my visit.

> My husband, who is not a vegetarian told him that

> there are people

> out there who don't eat plants that are alive, only

> what falls from

> the tree - bush. He argued that one too. Boy, do I

> hate people that

> think they have to argue everything with you. And he

> thought that he

> was being so smart. :0/ .

> Just thought that I'd share.

> Stef

 

 

Soft breezes whisper through the stays and the halyards

Times long forgotton still whisper to me

- Hugo Duarte

 

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the

hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I

could.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi