[Bioman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('manu', 'T')hey wouldnt have to make it mandatory, they would just need to promote it some. The reason they dont is, the meat industry lobby, the pharmacutical industry lobby, ect. They are a bunch of twisted freaks who are only intrested in greed, money, and power. The blind leading the blind, right over the cliff.

[kochevnik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bioman', '
')Mind you, in the Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, you only get beans and cabbage soup. That is, if you work to earn it (unlike the corporate communists you mention, who never work).

I don't believe in "promoting it a bit" nor in free market mechanisms. We need a strong hand. And the finger.

[killJOY]

You know what the hardest part about eating vegetables is?

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Getting them up out of the wheelchair.

[EnergyHog]

Yeah, what we need is more regulation!

I want to be told what to eat and when to eat it too.

We should all be mandated to eat during daylight so that no lights are needed. People that are awake after dark with lights on in their house will be shot by the nightly neighborhood patrol.

We should all have to eat cold food too, or be thrown in jail.
Because that is what is best for us.

And we should all have to pay huge fines for consuming beans because they cause gas which can be detrimental to the environment.

And when the next volcano erupts and covers the entire earth in ash for 3 years we can all die knowning that at least we tried really hard even if we did not realize that we cannot forsee the future.

[Bioman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kochevnik', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bioman', '
')Mind you, in the Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, you only get beans and cabbage soup. That is, if you work to earn it (unlike the corporate communists you mention, who never work).

I don't believe in "promoting it a bit" nor in free market mechanisms. We need a strong hand. And the finger.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kochevnik', '
')You make Jack look like a Girl Scout.

[smallpoxgirl]

If you morons ever succeed in banning meat, I am so going to make a fortune bootlegging hamburgers. I'll be the next Joseph Kennedy.

[SoothSayer]

Check out the design of your teeth sometime.

Humans are OMNIVORES ... we are designed/evolved to eat vegetables ... and MEAT.

No amount of pious liberal tosh will change our basic makeup.

If the inmates take over the asylum, I too will be selling illegal burgers on street corners.

And, yes, like most coke dealers, I will be "testing" my merchandise too!

[bshirt]

Oh yeah, good ol J. Stalin, who managed to murder even far more people that Hitler did.

Even better, without Stalin's ok to split up Poland with his good drinking buddy Hitler there quite possibly may never have been a WWII.

Good thinking Bioman.

[Uninspired123]

In a future where we will likely have to do more manual labor to get food and other things done that fossil fuels used to do, the LAST thing we need is more weak skinny vegetarians. You'll be yearning for a morself of meat if you have to do some hard manual labor. I'm sick of hearing the "health" argument too because it's a load of crap. Too many calories is what is hurting people's health's no particular food is. I could eat mcdonalds (and I have) everyday and lose weight and improve my health profile as long as I exercise and watch the calories.

[kmann]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SoothSayer', '
')If the inmates take over the asylum, I too will be selling illegal burgers on street corners.

[dooberheim]

Deer, cattle, sheep, goats, etc. convert cellulose, which we cannot digest, into protein that we can. There isn't really anything that says we have to grow our meat in the energy-intensive fashion that we do except economics. People have eaten meat throughout history, just not so much of it.

DK

[gg3]

Bioman, unless that was a complete joke, you've just killed off your credibility around here.

And also, there's not even any point responding to a hypothetical about Stalinist state-sponsored vegetarianism, any more than responding to a point about reducing population by herding nonwhites into gas chambers.

So let's just let this topic die a quiet death.

[Newsseeker]

My philosophy teacher told the class a week ago that the UN had announced if everyone went Vegan it would solve global warming because of all of the methane that the animals produce. Part of me thinks he just pulled this out of his keyster.

[eastbay]

gg3,

I think the guy is just pulling our chains.

[smallpoxgirl]

So if meat is made illegal, will people start to be afraid to go to the hospital when they have a heart attack? Otherwise they know the cops will be snooping around wanting to know where they got the meat.

[Baldwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a')nd now we are going to help you become a healthier person, in body and mind, we are going to make you more intelligent, and by doing so, we are going to save the planet. Here's the program. And, oh, yeah, it's not like you have a choice. This is mandatory.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Baldwin', '"')Dr. Kevorkian, I'd like to make an appointment....!"

[Eli]

I for one welcome our new Vegan overlords.


This must be a troll thread because the idea that government should have the power to decide what people eat is so completely asinine.

Fascism is just as appealing to those people on the left as it is to those on the right.

[I_Like_Plants]

The Indians probably have the most successful society built on being vegetarian, at least for the upper classes. If I had to go veg I'd basically follow the Indian diet.