Silly/Annoying/Funny Things Omnis Say
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I hope so, too. I hear this a lot when I bring my vegan baked goods to work. People tell me my vegan chocolate chip cookies are the best chocolate chip cookies they've ever had, so I'm doing my part to dispel the whole vegan-baked-goods-taste-like-cardboard stereotype.
I've never said "This can't be vegan", but I often say "This can't be healthy for me"
I will sometimes refer to veggie dogs as hot dogs, or veggie burgers to burgers. It's just easier to say it that way, and if the person I am talking to knows I am veg, I assume they will know what I am talking about.
But no. Whenever I do that I get responses like "You ate a hot dog????" "but you can't eat that it's meat!!"
Do you know how tiresome it is to say "fake chicken" and "veggie dog" and "veggie burger" all the time? Is it really so impossible for me to just use a short form without you all freaking out?
But no. Whenever I do that I get responses like "You ate a hot dog????" "but you can't eat that it's meat!!"
Do you know how tiresome it is to say "fake chicken" and "veggie dog" and "veggie burger" all the time? Is it really so impossible for me to just use a short form without you all freaking out?
"Who would you rescue from a burning house. Your dog, or person you don't know? "
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I would rescue my dog over most of the people I do know.
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if you rescued Lassie then you would probably save more human lives in the end, anyway.
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And now, all the omnis would start a big rant about how crazy we are that want to save our dogs, instead of a human being. And that caring about animals is a danger to the human kind (and there are no way possible to make them understand that lacking empathy for animals is a bigger danger).
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I once read a Letter to the Editor in the newspaper from a woman who complained about people "obsessed" (her word) with their dogs to the point of saying they’d rather have a relationship with their dog than with a human, and she suggested that those poor misguided souls should “get a life” and go out and form relationships with humans instead, like “normal” people. You can bet there were plenty of pretty angry responses to that letter.
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You people are hurting my head.
Giving animal lives preference over human lives is the worst thing (for animals) that a veg*an could ever do.
Next only to "offending omnis will only put them off ..." this 'save my dog rather than a human ...' is absolutely the most dumb-assed thing I have ever heard.
Even by the above totaly dumb-assed logic the depths of it's dumb-assery is truly gobsmacking.
Reason; If offending omnis really does put them off from becoming veg*ans then saying we would value a dogs life over a human life is as offensive as you can possibly get.
If it is within the nature of dogs to die for what they perceive to be their pack then that would make it offensive to the very nature of doggies too.
Giving animal lives preference over human lives is the worst thing (for animals) that a veg*an could ever do.
Next only to "offending omnis will only put them off ..." this 'save my dog rather than a human ...' is absolutely the most dumb-assed thing I have ever heard.
Even by the above totaly dumb-assed logic the depths of it's dumb-assery is truly gobsmacking.
Reason; If offending omnis really does put them off from becoming veg*ans then saying we would value a dogs life over a human life is as offensive as you can possibly get.
If it is within the nature of dogs to die for what they perceive to be their pack then that would make it offensive to the very nature of doggies too.
I wasn't considering the question in a veg*n vs. non-veg*n mindset connotation, (I don't believe it was asked as such). I also wasn't worried about offending non-veg*ns.
I'm still not.
If someone is looking for an excuse to be offended about my "veg*n mindset" they're going to find something to annoy them no matter what I say. And if they're going to be offended and turned off from becoming veg*n by this thread then they weren't serious in their wish to try veg*nism to begin with.
I could post this same question on any hunting board* and the answer would overall be "I'd save the dog" on those boards also.
*I'm a member on a few hunting/shooting boards as I like to load my own ammo and target shoot, plus I was raised as a hunter. (disclaimer: I'm currently a non-active member on those boards but I'm still a member - I was even a moderator on one for a while).
I'm still not.
If someone is looking for an excuse to be offended about my "veg*n mindset" they're going to find something to annoy them no matter what I say. And if they're going to be offended and turned off from becoming veg*n by this thread then they weren't serious in their wish to try veg*nism to begin with.
I could post this same question on any hunting board* and the answer would overall be "I'd save the dog" on those boards also.
*I'm a member on a few hunting/shooting boards as I like to load my own ammo and target shoot, plus I was raised as a hunter. (disclaimer: I'm currently a non-active member on those boards but I'm still a member - I was even a moderator on one for a while).
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It's not only veg*ans who answer they want to save their animals, most animals owners do. The case is anyway so far away from real life, so it's a discussion that is pointless. It's only ment for provoking each part.
If you would ask a person, would you save your child or your dog, everyone would of cause answer the child. Anyway. Most people won't be as heroic in RL as on the Internet. And instead of tossing themself into the flames, ending up saving themself only.
It's not a omni vs veg*an discussion, but it's always omnis that starts it. This time I think it was because someone reacted on a dog that was shot and killed infront of the owner and a drowning we have had this summer. And then other people start with "it's only a dog, get over it".
If you would ask a person, would you save your child or your dog, everyone would of cause answer the child. Anyway. Most people won't be as heroic in RL as on the Internet. And instead of tossing themself into the flames, ending up saving themself only.
It's not a omni vs veg*an discussion, but it's always omnis that starts it. This time I think it was because someone reacted on a dog that was shot and killed infront of the owner and a drowning we have had this summer. And then other people start with "it's only a dog, get over it".
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I was watching a programme about the RSPCA this week.
During the programme they were called out to two homes where there was suspected cruelty to pets .
The first one was a disabled man who was keeping a Stafford Bull terrier in a small flat in a high rise tower block of flats. He had been cautioned several times and told it was unsuitable enviroment for such a large dog. He admitted that he did not take it out at all and when it messed indoors he threw the poo out of the window onto a lower balcony. Interestingly... the RSPCA were responding not to complaints of the cruelty to the dog but bout the smell of the poo.
The officers still did not remove the dog who the man apparently really loved, but gave him yet another week to get the dog moved from the property.
The second was a couple with (I cannot remember the number) but multiple dogs , cats, rabbits, and mice in their small property. The whole house was a urine soaked dump and the dogs were not excercised . The rabbits were breeding even as the cameras were rolling and the couple found it amusing that they had mistaken a male for a female and were now over run.
Eight cats were shut in a bathroom where they lived surrounded by dirty litter trays and never allowed out in case they got injured or run over because the owners loved them so much.
Again the officers cautioned the couple but left the animals in the property.
Wonder how quickly they would have removed a child 'loved' in such a way?
During the programme they were called out to two homes where there was suspected cruelty to pets .
The first one was a disabled man who was keeping a Stafford Bull terrier in a small flat in a high rise tower block of flats. He had been cautioned several times and told it was unsuitable enviroment for such a large dog. He admitted that he did not take it out at all and when it messed indoors he threw the poo out of the window onto a lower balcony. Interestingly... the RSPCA were responding not to complaints of the cruelty to the dog but bout the smell of the poo.
The officers still did not remove the dog who the man apparently really loved, but gave him yet another week to get the dog moved from the property.
The second was a couple with (I cannot remember the number) but multiple dogs , cats, rabbits, and mice in their small property. The whole house was a urine soaked dump and the dogs were not excercised . The rabbits were breeding even as the cameras were rolling and the couple found it amusing that they had mistaken a male for a female and were now over run.
Eight cats were shut in a bathroom where they lived surrounded by dirty litter trays and never allowed out in case they got injured or run over because the owners loved them so much.
Again the officers cautioned the couple but left the animals in the property.
Wonder how quickly they would have removed a child 'loved' in such a way?
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I always just tell them that it's instance-specific and then pose a number of increasingly complex questions about the situation until their answers just get ridiculous and contradictory enough that they give up.
One time, someone went so far as to draw floor plans on a napkin.
"The Atkins diet is the healthiest way of eating, being vegan is unnatural".
"Who else here eats a Paleo diet? It's the most natural way humans can eat"
"Who else here eats a Paleo diet? It's the most natural way humans can eat"
