Rant and Analogy of a sort
I wrote this rant last night while drunk and I like how it turned out. No offense to anyone named Joe.
"If you're that concerned about labels, you could call yourself strict vegetarian.
Don't dilute my veganism with animal products, though, please. It's kind of rude."
Not part of my response, but I need to rant:
- Seriously, though. Donald Watson, the guy who coined the term "vegan", did so because vegetarian had become diluted with allowing dairy and eggs. Vegetarian originally meant what vegan means now. Some idiots even eat dead animals and claim to be vegetarians. Oy vey.
So, eating and using animal products and calling yourself vegan is, in effect, ruining it and diluting it for the rest of us. Kindly effing stop.
It's really stupid to question whether insect products count as animal products.
If you think it's not so stupid, ask yourself which plant the bugs grow on?
Yeah that's what I thought.
Thank you, drive through.
Edit: For those of you who might not understand why "dilution" is such a pain in the ass - consider this - Imagine you are deeply morally opposed to eating humans, human by-products, and wearing or using products with human products or by products in them.
You call yourself, um, how 'bout a "Humanitarian". This "label" is fairly well known and makes it much easier to explain your dietary restrictions when eating out, or flying, or being hospitalized, etc.
Joe Wimpy-Compromiser-Dude thinks it's ok to eat toenail clippings, because technically, they're not killing humans to get them, right?
Thing is, toe nail clippings are so popular, Agribusiness (multi-billion dollar corporate owned farming, which now comprises the VAST majority of farming in the US) has become so profit driven that they care only for the lining of their pockets, and naught for the welfare of sentient beings. In order to provide people with the toenail clippings they so desire (and through multi-million dollar advertising and lobbying campaigns, have managed to convince most citizens that they are essential to their diets), they confine humans to tiny crates, too small to turn around, they pump them full of hormones to grow their toenails at unnatural rates, causing painful deformities and diseases, and they breed them relentlessly, practically non-stop until their "production rate" declines, at which time they send them off to the slaughterhouses to be murdered and added to school lunch program and pet food human meat supplies.
Now, you're informed. You know how agribusiness operates. You know it is morally wrong to imprison sentient, emotional human beings (earthlings) against their will, only to harvest their toenal clippings to feed the gluttony of the typical Western diet. When you read or hear about the atrocities committed in the name of profit, you cringe.
So, when Joe-Compromise says it's ok to eat toenails, but still call himself a humanitarian, other people think it's ok for humanitarians to eat toenails. You're absolutely disgusted by them, but the next time you go in a restaurant, and you tell the server that you're a humanitarian, they serve you up a big dish of pasta with toenails. When you return the dish, they don't understand, after all, humanitarians eat toenails, right? After all, their cousin's friend who calls himself humanitarian eats them.
A few years later, people start saying to you "oh, so you'll still eat human ocular nerves, right? How about human bicep muscle, you eat that right?"
How would you feel if you had naturally developed a resistance, or "allergy" of sorts, to these substances, and you have requested a humanitarian dish. You ate half of it before realizing it contained toenails, because the cook thought it was alright, because so many people that eat toenails claimed to be humanitarians. You became physically ill as a result. How would you feel?
wow I went off on a tangent, didn't I?
Ok, point here is, to not fully adhere to a certain lifestyle, yet claim to be fully of that lifestyle, makes people who do fully adhere to that lifestyle, phsyically ill. When they get physically ill, it will be your fault, and they will hunt you down and paint rude slogans on your face while you sleep, and cut off your eyelashes so you get a lot of dust in your eyes.
Good night.
"If you're that concerned about labels, you could call yourself strict vegetarian.
Don't dilute my veganism with animal products, though, please. It's kind of rude."
Not part of my response, but I need to rant:
- Seriously, though. Donald Watson, the guy who coined the term "vegan", did so because vegetarian had become diluted with allowing dairy and eggs. Vegetarian originally meant what vegan means now. Some idiots even eat dead animals and claim to be vegetarians. Oy vey.
So, eating and using animal products and calling yourself vegan is, in effect, ruining it and diluting it for the rest of us. Kindly effing stop.
It's really stupid to question whether insect products count as animal products.
If you think it's not so stupid, ask yourself which plant the bugs grow on?
Yeah that's what I thought.
Thank you, drive through.
Edit: For those of you who might not understand why "dilution" is such a pain in the ass - consider this - Imagine you are deeply morally opposed to eating humans, human by-products, and wearing or using products with human products or by products in them.
You call yourself, um, how 'bout a "Humanitarian". This "label" is fairly well known and makes it much easier to explain your dietary restrictions when eating out, or flying, or being hospitalized, etc.
Joe Wimpy-Compromiser-Dude thinks it's ok to eat toenail clippings, because technically, they're not killing humans to get them, right?
Thing is, toe nail clippings are so popular, Agribusiness (multi-billion dollar corporate owned farming, which now comprises the VAST majority of farming in the US) has become so profit driven that they care only for the lining of their pockets, and naught for the welfare of sentient beings. In order to provide people with the toenail clippings they so desire (and through multi-million dollar advertising and lobbying campaigns, have managed to convince most citizens that they are essential to their diets), they confine humans to tiny crates, too small to turn around, they pump them full of hormones to grow their toenails at unnatural rates, causing painful deformities and diseases, and they breed them relentlessly, practically non-stop until their "production rate" declines, at which time they send them off to the slaughterhouses to be murdered and added to school lunch program and pet food human meat supplies.
Now, you're informed. You know how agribusiness operates. You know it is morally wrong to imprison sentient, emotional human beings (earthlings) against their will, only to harvest their toenal clippings to feed the gluttony of the typical Western diet. When you read or hear about the atrocities committed in the name of profit, you cringe.
So, when Joe-Compromise says it's ok to eat toenails, but still call himself a humanitarian, other people think it's ok for humanitarians to eat toenails. You're absolutely disgusted by them, but the next time you go in a restaurant, and you tell the server that you're a humanitarian, they serve you up a big dish of pasta with toenails. When you return the dish, they don't understand, after all, humanitarians eat toenails, right? After all, their cousin's friend who calls himself humanitarian eats them.
A few years later, people start saying to you "oh, so you'll still eat human ocular nerves, right? How about human bicep muscle, you eat that right?"
How would you feel if you had naturally developed a resistance, or "allergy" of sorts, to these substances, and you have requested a humanitarian dish. You ate half of it before realizing it contained toenails, because the cook thought it was alright, because so many people that eat toenails claimed to be humanitarians. You became physically ill as a result. How would you feel?
wow I went off on a tangent, didn't I?
Ok, point here is, to not fully adhere to a certain lifestyle, yet claim to be fully of that lifestyle, makes people who do fully adhere to that lifestyle, phsyically ill. When they get physically ill, it will be your fault, and they will hunt you down and paint rude slogans on your face while you sleep, and cut off your eyelashes so you get a lot of dust in your eyes.
Good night.