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    Default Intelligence Squared: Animals Should Be Off the Menu

    I will not eat anything that walks, swims, flies, runs, skips, hops or crawls.

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    Wow. What an inspiration. This made me cry! I despair at the world sometimes. How can anyone watch this and still justify eating meat?
    We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

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    love this speech!

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    Unbelievably eloquent. Touching on just about every reason to be vegan that there is.

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    Animals off the menu!!

    But, but .. where would we get our protein???


    Watched that a few days ago (thanks whoever posted the link!). Marvelous speech! Couple of completely outrageous claims too, mind ...
    All done in the best possible taste ...

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    Default Re: Intelligence Squared: Animals Should Be Off the Menu

    I wonder what the rebuttal looked like.

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    Animals off the menu!!

    But, but .. where would we get our protein???


    Watched that a few days ago (thanks whoever posted the link!). Marvelous speech! Couple of completely outrageous claims too, mind ...
    Like what?

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    Default Re: Intelligence Squared: Animals Should Be Off the Menu

    Quote deniselynn View Post
    I wonder what the rebuttal looked like.
    The whole debate is on youtube, it's quite long though.

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    Default Re: Intelligence Squared: Animals Should Be Off the Menu

    Holy moly. Thank you for the link.

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    Default Re: Intelligence Squared: Animals Should Be Off the Menu

    Quote thegreenjudy View Post
    Like what?
    'Lo Judy

    Guy in the yellow tie made these two:

    1. That not eating meat would end starvation forever.

    2. That not eating meat would end cruelty forever.

    The 'if slaughterhouses had glass walls ..." line is pretty much bunkum also. Slaughter houses do have 'glass walls' (in as much as NO walls) to those who work inside them and no slaughterman I ever met has been remotely vegetarian. My own childhood 'treat' was to sit at the killing gate of a local slaughter house and watch the whole slaughter process from beginning to end. Never put me off of going straight from there to home and having a beef dinner.

    Almost hate myself for saying this but I am old enough to remember a time when the whole process was infinitely more transparent than it is today and vegetarians were rarer than rocking horse droppings. If anything it would seem to be true that vegetarianism has actualy increased as the transparency of slaughter house has diminished.


    Anyways, just to be crystal clear ...

    I do not think that a few flawed arguments and 'outrageous' claims diminish the overwhelming arguments in favour of veg*nism. I just think that with so many overwhelming arguments in favour that there is absolutely no need for any flawed arguments or 'outrageous' claims in the first place whatsoever.
    All done in the best possible taste ...

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    Quote Cupid Stunt
    If anything it would seem to be true that vegetarianism has actualy increased as the transparency of slaughter house has diminished.
    Perhaps this is because the slaughter process is less visible. People aren't numbed to it at a young age, and therefore when they do see is as teenagers or adults they are shocked by it an take action against it. Its also part of a cultural shift, since animal 'rights' activists started fighting against factory farming in the 70s, the idea that slaughter is cruel has become more socially accepted.

    * I put r'ights' in inverted commas as the Peter Singer/PeTA activists of the 70s were fighting for welfare rather than rights
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    Quote Blueberries View Post
    Perhaps this is because the slaughter process is less visible. People aren't numbed to it at a young age, and therefore when they do see is as teenagers or adults they are shocked by it an take action against it.
    Think you may be on the money there BB!

    A peek behind otherwise thick and secretive walls is better for turning people than glas walls that allow a permanent view, kinda thing?

    I quite like that idea because it means that the meat industries secrecy may actualy lead to a slow painfull, albeit painfully slow, death from having shot themselves in the foot.

    I'd rather they had shot themselves in the head, as it were, obviously!
    All done in the best possible taste ...

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