Chryssie
Internet Junkie
The honey one is a hard one. One of my co-workers said she asked a beekeeper about honey as we were having "that discussion" and was told the bees do not eat the honey and make it for us. ummm really?
It has p*ssed off a few people who were expecting an easy to reject "I have to survive on entirely on lettuce and lentils ..." type reply, yes.
Seems to deliver a fair amount of perfectly concrete information to those askers who's curiousity is/was genuine though.
That's why I started the thread to AVOID answers like yours CG.
Commincation ( and empathy) is all about trying to put oneself in the shoes of the other person.
You should check out the topic I started too Shyvas.
I started the new topic to try and stop this one getting derailed, btw.
I will. If someone were to ask 'what do you eat then' personally I wouldnt reply 'ummm any of the 12,000 plants' because to me it smacks of 'holier than thou' and I feel it would A-Put a non-veg*ns back up and B-Show veg*ns as preachy.
I think the context of the answer on that one really comes down to what the context of the question is...If someone is genuinely curious then a straight answer is best. Once it came out I was veg*n in a hairdressers and they were curious to know what was veg*n and what wasnt.
Re honey. I recently said this to someone and they accepted it (paraphrased): "In a bee's entire life they only make 1/12 teaspoon of honey, for food for their babies. Id feel really mean taking it away from them, I love bees." Probably looked like a crazy bee-loving hippie but it's true and also worked haha.
Well... really it's the oppressed worker class bees making honey for the ruling class bee's babies.![]()
If someone doesn't get the idea of fake meat, could this mean that they eat meat because it is made from animals? I suppose that one could ask them that.
Yes, I think it is something like this and what Alice said about meat being "healthy". I think most meat eaters believe in the whole "we are meant to eat meat...it's natural", therefore, anything made of soy/vegetable/gluten protein to resemble meat is "fake" and, therefore, can't be good for you. Something like that, anyway.
I hear this all the time as well as 'if we don't kill animals, they'll only kill each other'.....![]()
In the UK, I don't think we've actually let any predators live that could take on a cow/sheep.![]()
I hear this all the time as well as 'if we don't kill animals, they'll only kill each other'.....![]()
The Pol-Pot/<insert genocidist/mass-murderer of choice here> defence: "Deh woz only gunna kill each uvver enyways .."
It should be made law that people have to pass a 'what is wrong with this statement' test before being allowed to vote, imho.