If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. ~David Brenner

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. ~Harvey Diamond

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. ~George Bernard Shaw

Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. ~Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930

Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends. ~Author Unknown

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter." ~Andy Rooney

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ~Rita Rudner (<-- One of my favorites)

In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Mr. Spock, Star Trek, "Wolf in the Fold"

I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me. ~Alex Poulos

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. ~Marty Feldman (<-- Another really good one)

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~A. Whitney Brown


Discuss.

Crazy Ron

Ok...so I found this quote on a website that I will list at the end. But I had the urge to share...

"And it’s hard not to notice that those who support meat eating are mostly “God gave us dominion over the world” Christians who support guns and wars and hate gays and peace activists."

His name was Ron. And he was on the site http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/22/4022/

Why? I want to know what people have to say about that quote.

Meaty Meat

"A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children." ~David Brenner



I eat meat. Just for the record.

If we are talking this from a killing the animal point, then there are many aspects to look at. If people are against us killing cows and larger animals such as that, then I would like to advocate that people should not kill the mice that run around their dorms or the ants that can infest a kitchen. Either way you look at it, you are taking the life of a living organism. (And technically eating a vegetable is killing an organism...just for the record.)

Not everyone can treat everything perfectly. No matter how many laws we create and restrictions we put on how animals are to be treated, there are always going to be those people that cut corners. NEWS FLASH! Not everyone follows the laws. Look at how many illegal immigrants we have in this country. None of them follow any of the laws. A lot of people could care less about the laws put in place to protect us and others. The animal rights law are not just in place to protect the animal, but also to protect us. Recently there has been a case about a slaughterhouse that forces cows that were so sick they couldn't stand into the country's food supply. Clearly this brings about sickness and no laws were followed to protect us citizens.
(http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Mar12/0,4670,CongressSlaughterhouseAbuse,00.html)

Reality of Reality

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." ~Jules de Gaultier

Why is it that many just refuse to accept a reality? It is as if accepting a reality would be to completely reject all others. But as I'm sure we have all learned, this is not true. Accepting a reality, to me, is accepting your life as your own. Pretty much just saying it is real and has meaning.

But then the imagination comes in and seems to blow all this away. At night, or even during the day, people dream of what life could be. Maybe something that is better than their current status. This causes people to question their reality and, in many occasions, declare that this reality either needs to become non-existent or that it is far inferior to the alternate reality that they have created in this mind.

Everyone creates alternate realities using their imagination...it's basically called playing the "what if" game. But this is no reason to reject what is true. No reason to reject what is now. Rejecting this reality that you live in now hypothetically makes you live in no reality. Is this possible? Can anything exist outside of a reality? If it isn't in a reality, then it most certainly cannot be real.

Lions, and Tigers, and Imagined realities....oh my.

Factual Interpretations

"There are no facts, only interpretations." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Could this in fact be true? (which I guess that its self would be an interpretation.)
Perhaps everything we accept as fact via something such as science could be completely different than what we precieve. Interpreting data is a rather large part of the scientific process. Perhaps the person doing the interpretations gives the data to another, who is to say that they both don't come up with two completely different, yet logical reasons? This could continue in an endless circle of interpretations with the outcome of no facts.

But what if the majority agree on a certain interpretation...does this than become fact and make the beginning quote null and void?

Educational Reading

"A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism." ~Donald Morgan

Take it as you will. I have read the Bible and studied it since a young age...I am still a believer in God.

A vs A...will A win?

"I considered atheism, but there weren't enough holidays." ~Author Unknown

I find it very hard to not believe in something supernatural. I feel like no matter what you kind of need it as a fall back to explain the unexplainable. If you are agnostic, then how to you explain those which science has no explanation for right now? In essence, everything needs an explanation. Granted the explanation may change...but it still always has one. Believe in the supernatural is a fall back in many peoples eyes, but it works nonetheless.

With agnosticism you at least understand that there might be something supernatural and not completely rejecting the idea as atheists do. In my mind, agnostics are more open-minded to the fact that there might be something bigger than them out there controlling what is happening here, but they don't necessarily believe it completely. Just like not everyone believes everything that scientists say the first time.

Separation of You and Yourself

"This is a little prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen." ~George Carlin

I stumbled across the quote today and it brought about a question in my mind and reminded me of a conversation I had with my father junior year of high school. Can there ever truly be a separation of church and state?

Being a religious person means you live that way. You believe things, whether most think they are right or wrong. And it is part of you and you cannot separate yourself from it. If you cannot persay separate yourself from what is a part of you, how are you supposed to separate it from the decision you make as a government official? It baffels me that some people think they there can be a clear division between church and state, when in fact, as far as I am concerned...it is quite impossible.

Thing 1, Thing 2...of just Thing 1?

"A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure." ~Lee Segall

The more we know the more we guess? In order to have true bliss much we live in ignorance?

Silly Kids, Trix are for Hungry People

By nature, humans are selfish. And I would like to think everyone has accepted this by now. As much as we may care for those less fortunate, all we do is want and want. Helping someone brings you a feeling of accomplishment for helping someone...so you get something out of it...essentially making the original helping someone null and void.

One childish example that comes to mind is the whole advertising around Trix. "Trix are for kids" and the poor rabbit couldn't have any. The kids kept them to theirselves and wouldn't share. On a whole other level this advertising is showing kids that they shouldn't share but at the same time it is a very simple example to show the fact that once we get something that we could share, we don't want to.

Such as all the surplus food our country, and others, have. We keep it "on reserve" until it goes bad because we dont use it because we dont need it. We are just being selfish and keeping these products to ourself even if they would be of much better use to someone else. They are wasting away and doing NO ONE any good just sitting there going bad. This is one phenomenon of our country that no one could ever explain to me.