It’s fine that this guy can express his opinions online and stuff like everyone else, but he shows no understanding of the ethical arguments that underlie vegetarianism for people like me, or someone like adamquinn—people who are vegetarians for valid reasons, based on logical, coherent reasoning and stuff. And I’m not saying people that eat meat are bad people for doing so, but they certainly are ignorant if they believe that the only reason for not eating meat is to save “cute and cuddly” animals or something. There are a million and a half reasons for me why I’m a vegetarian, and this guy shows no understanding of them. Okay, so that makes him a normal, ignorant British guy, no different than most British or American meat-eaters, right? Which is fine…except his writing is published by the Guardian like he’s actually saying something important. WTF? Piss off, man. And fuck the Guardian for publishing this pseudo-journalism bullshit. Fuck them.
Someone wrote an article for our school which was kind of prose, kind of a rant on why vegetarians are stupid because they don’t eat meat just because the animals are cute. I sent the girl a big facebook message explaining the basic ethics of vegetarianism, but not going into animal cognition and suffering because she probably couldn’t wrap her head around that even if she wanted to.
I think that too many meat-eaters do think vegetarians don’t eat meat because animals are cute. PETA doesn’t exactly help, for every useful bit of information they put out there there’s 50 pieces of propaganda saying animals are our friends and chickens are cute, then 30 means of direct action that make vegetarians look insane.
Also the dad in here the article saying “You’re just becoming vegetarian to annoy me,” and thinking that if he also becomes a vegetarian his son will quit thinks just like my dad. He thinks his son makes every decision based on it being the opposite of what he’d do. I don’t get why parents think children do things just to be contrary to them, did they actually think “I’M GOING TO MAKE A SIGNIFICANT LIFESTYLE CHANGE BECAUSE IT WILL TICK OFF MY DAD” when they were kids?
That’s almost as irrational as his arguments against meat eating. I mean, there was not a single reason to eat meat expressed in that entire article, just ad hominem and anecdotal bullshit. I don’t even understand why even a local newspaper would consider publishing something like this.
why dont you eat meat, quinquinn.
