Vegetarianism - when diet becomes a dogma

Vegetarianism - when diet becomes a dogma

Postby sexorcista on 07 Sep 2008 8:50 pm

Do you eat meat ?

How do you feel about killing your own meat?
Lets talk about the dietary 'laws' withing religion. Do you know of any good ones..like 'god hates shrimp'?

Search the net and you'll find entire 'churches' devoted to the practise of vegetarianism.

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Would you sleep with a meat eater? or give up meat for your mate?

If you had to choose which would it be sex or meat?


Here's an interesting research article which strongly suggests that 'vegans' are not exactly rational. Good demo of how 'faith' or beliefs act on individuals ideas - (cognitive) to produce the evidence they are looking for and in this case smell. Its crazy.

A study conducted in New Zealand suggests that vegetarians, or vegans, prefer to have sex and be in relationships with other "vegansexuals."

."They're attracted to people with similar interests;" ideological reasons: "they see meat eaters' bodies as being composed of the lives of others;" and sexual reasons: "they didn't want to engage in intimate sex ... because of the smells and tastes of their body fluids."Potts sampled 157 vegans, 120 of whom were female.All of the women, according to Potts, fell along a continuum. Some expressed discontent with being with meat-eating men, while others would sleep only with other vegans."It is totally, totally true," said Janna Cunnigham, a 46-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., native, about the smells and tastes of carnivores."Their body odor is pungent. Their sweat is extremely smelly. Their spit, and all their body fluids, are strong and stinky. Vegetarian people are not so smelly," Cunningham, who has been a vegetarian for 32 years, and a vegan for 10, told ABC News.com.Cunningham added that she has dated both meat eaters and vegetarians, but would stick to seeing only vegetarians in the future.While PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has long advocated people give up meat and go vegetarian, the animal rights group has its misgivings about vegans only sleeping with other vegans."Sex is a very effective form of outreach and activism," said Dan Shannon, a PETA spokesman, and 10-year veteran vegan, who thought meat eaters could be converted by their partners


How about the term 'converted'..? Too much of a coincidence. :)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3437736&page=2
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Re: Vegetarianism - when diet becomes a dogma

Postby hoverFrog on 09 Sep 2008 4:13 am

I want you to know that I wrote a really long and thought provoking reply to this espousing the virtues of vegetarianism as a healthy and safe alternative to meat eating as well as a personal moral choice for me. Sadly it was lost in t'Interweb and I'm so disheartened at losing it that I cannot bear to retype it. Suffice it to say that you would have been impressed with my arguments enough to give up the flesh of your fellow beasties forever more. Honest.
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Re: Vegetarianism - when diet becomes a dogma

Postby sexorcista on 10 Sep 2008 5:44 pm

Bumholes to that HOver...Don't ya hate that.

I was looking forward to a 'preach' on this stuff. :mrgreen:
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