Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I wouldn’t call that “Burn of the Day.” Daddy Warpig’s comment is off the wall and irrelevant.
Depends Bob, perhaps, on how much you like the other white meat!
Veganstreet should be REQUIRED to eat bugs. Gaia worshipers…
I admit to never understanding the vegan fetish with replicating meat or meat alternatives instead of just eating plants in their most natural form. I enjoy a salad every day, but I don’t put it in a blender or contort it in such a manner to fool myself and others that it is anything other than a plant.
I’m with BillR on this. I don’t need real bacon, but don’t you dare give me pretend bacon. Eggplant can pretend to be veal if parmesan cheese is involved though.
I’m not a vegan (son and daughter-in-law are), but the hyperbole in Daddy Warpig’s comment seems off the wall, overkill; using a steam-roller to crush a peanut. My complaint is literary, not dietary. I do agree that making faux meat out of plant stuff is a food euphemism (sp?), and I don’t understand why vegans avoid dairy, but that’s irrelevant to my criticism of the comment as “burn of the day.”
Vegans are just another form of sanctiomonious, self-righteous liberal progressives – “Look, we don’t kill and eat animals, so we’re better than you murderous carnivore conservatives!”
LCQ, I’m not sure that’s a valid generalization. My son and daughter-in-law are libertarian/conservative. Their choice of a vegan diet is based on their ideas of nutritional health rather than the killing and eating animal bit.
I agree! Most vegans I know would burn a basketful of bunnies for an arugula and watercress salad!
I stand, er sit, correct, Dr. Bob. It’s OK to be vegan. Romans 14:2-4 (NIV)
2 One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
But I do get annoyed at the implication that eating meat is wrong.
Update: with all due respect to Dr. Bob, I do like Mundabor’s take on all this:
https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/i-feel-violated-vegans-and-the-sausage/
There are people who are vegan because of nutritional reasons or (as St. Paul pointed out) reasons of conscience. Indeed, I worked with one of them (a nuclear QA engineer), and he (like me) was politicially to the right of Attila the Hun. We got along famously (and when it came to compliance with nuclear regulations for digital I&C software QA, we raised holy hell).
But godless liberals don’t go vegan because of either nutrition or conscience. They go vegan because it makes them feel sanctiomoniously, Pharisaically self-righteous.
I’m not a vegan (son and daughter-in-law are…
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There are all kinds of mental & physical problems connected to being vegan over lack of sufficient nutrition. Depending on what is meant by “vegan” in this comment, some serious dietary supplementation may need to be ongoing to maintain health in the long haul.