World Vegan Day '09

[Evil Muppet]

[youtube=425,350]wt9pUraM4u4[/youtube].

[Diogenes The Cynic]

I have a 50% chance of having O blood type.  If I got 1 full day without meat, I get REALLY cranky and feel like shit.

That said,  I know of no medical reason for certain blood types influencing mood with regards to diet.  Seems like an interesting idea, but I just can't think of a reason for it right now.

I think that most people get cranky when they stop eating meat, and that is also a personal observation.

How could you not know? You're a freaking phlebotomist!

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

I have a 50% chance of having O blood type.  If I got 1 full day without meat, I get REALLY cranky and feel like shit.

That said,  I know of no medical reason for certain blood types influencing mood with regards to diet.  Seems like an interesting idea, but I just can't think of a reason for it right now.

I think that most people get cranky when they stop eating meat, and that is also a personal observation.

How could you not know? You're a freaking phlebotomist!

lol I know I know I get asked that all of the time.  But tests aren't free, even for me, and I've never had a reason to learn my blood type, so I don't know it.

[anarchir]

[youtube=425,350]wt9pUraM4u4[/youtube].

That was awesome. Also, there were some pretty wild shots in there.

[Diogenes The Cynic]

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That was awesome. Also, there were some pretty wild shots in there.

What was awesome? They're using a tool thats not fit to kill the animals they're hunting. Thats pretty messed up. Its fine to hunt for your dinner, but you're a dick if you torture it along the way.

[Rillion]

What was awesome? They're using a tool thats not fit to kill the animals they're hunting. Thats pretty messed up. Its fine to hunt for your dinner, but you're a dick if you torture it along the way.

That was my thought.

[AL the Inconspicuous]

People have a right to torture animals they own.

[Rillion]

People have a right to torture animals they own.

Ethics ! = rights, Libman.  Fuck off.

[mikehz]

My daughter and her husband went vegan a couple years ago, and do great with it. You just don't find many overweight vegans.

I'd be a vegetarian if I had it to do over again. But, being my age and married to a meat-lover, it just ain't gonna happen.

[AL the Inconspicuous]

People have a right to torture animals they own. Ethics ! = rights, Libman.  Fuck off.

Ethics according to what, Her Majesty Rillion's subjective emotions?  Ha, that's a laugh!  A rational ethical foundation would recognize that any activity that a "rational economic actor" is willing to pay for is moral, as long as it doesn't violate the natural rights of other "rational economic actors" (i.e. human beings).  The ability to spend one's money on whatever one enjoys is what gives money value in the first place, which is what gets billions of people up out of bed every morning and keeps the human civilization afloat!

You could argue that carving up Bambi with a chainsaw just to watch it suffer is unethical, and I could just as well argue that wasting time on baseball is unethical.  A perfectly psychologically-healthy individual might find the former to be a far more entertaining activity that offers greater stress relief, keeps him energized and inspired to achieve, and even burns more calories as well!  In fact, if I had discovered Bambi torture years ago, I would have gone vegan much sooner, because that activity would have alleviated my anxiety that by going vegan for health reasons I'd be seen as accepting the stereotypical vegan religion of "animal rights" along with it - Bambi torture could have added years to my life expectancy!

And Bambi torture might have also increased my total lifetime productivity as well, thus bringing more resources into the economy - creating more jobs, funding more scientific research, and pushing humanity forward, ever forward, toward its manifest destiny amongst the stars!  We may someday breed Bambis on ten thousand terraformed planets thousands of light-years apart!  No matter how many race-traitors like Rillion stand in the way of progress, the unconquerable human spirit will never cease trying to find a way to torture Bambis with chainsaws, or whatever other natural freedoms an individual might find worth defending!  No surrender!  No retreat!  No compromises!  Even if it takes a thousand years - HUMANITY WILL PREVAIL!!!

[Rillion]

Libman.  Fuck off.

[AL the Inconspicuous]

Rillion...  All this tension between us can only end in a Randian rape scene. 

[Diogenes The Cynic]

My daughter and her husband went vegan a couple years ago, and do great with it. You just don't find many overweight vegans.

They exist.

[sillyperson]

killing sentient being is morally wrong, and punishable under the corporate galactic code

[AL the Inconspicuous]

Sentience my foot Emacs lisp generating perl script!  Rights are based on the capacity to pull one's economic weight in a modern society, and to reciprocate the respect for the rights of others.