Vegans! What do you think of them?

[thanatos144]

Hell, when I was 10, we were more concerned with whether they would have meat loaf or stuffed peppers for lunch. Or whether we could convince our parents to spring the .50 to buy lunch instead of schlepping a PB&J and an apple...

We looked forward to Chocolate Milk day in the cateria.

Oooh, that too. It's been a long time.

Hey I buy Quickchocolate milk mix by the pound LOL

 

[Amelia]

How the hell does a 10 year old even have the interest in becoming a vegan?

They learn about stuff like that in school, nowadays.

Funny thing, my nephew is home-schooled. I won't ask my brother about his politics because I suspect he voted for Obama and I don't want to start anything. lol. But they're home-schooling Mormons - the kids are aged 18 months to 10 years - and the oldest went vegan and/or vegetarian.

Fun family.

 

[PredFan]

I mentioned this in another thread a while back.
One of my hobbies is eating exotic foods. And by "foods" I mean meats.
The animals I've eaten in my lifetime:

1. Monkey
2. Rattlesnake
3. Wild pig
3. Buffalo
4. Elk
5. Reindeer
6. Squirrel
7. Turtle
8. Camel
9. Lion
10. Zebra
11. Horse
12. Pigeon (eggs)
13. Goose
14. Meal worms
15. Shark
16. Possum
17. Ostrich
18. Kangaroo
19. Iguana

My goal is to eat these animals as well before I take the dirt nap: whale, grasshopper, dog, and bear. Of course, I'll keep an ear and my mind open for whatever oddity comes along.

 

[Liability]

I mentioned this in another thread a while back.
One of my hobbies is eating exotic foods. And by "foods" I mean meats.
The animals I've earten in my lifetime:

1. Monkey
2. Rattlesnake
3. Wild pig
3. Buffalo
4. Elk
5. Reindeer
6. Squirrel
7. Turtle
8. Camel
9. Lion
10. Zebra
11. Horse
12. Pigeon (eggs)
13. Goose
14. Meal worms
15. Shark
16. Possum
17. Ostrich
18. Kangaroo
19. Iguana

My goal is to eat these animals as well before I take the dirt nap: whale, grasshopper, dog, and bear. Of course, I'll keep an ear and my mind open for whatever oddity comes along.

No cow?

No chicken?

No fishies?

 

[boedicca]

Horrors! No lamb chops?

 

[Liability]

More and moar information about breatharianism:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/the-f...s-are-the-most-moral-of-all-moral-humans.html

 

[Indofred]

A shop sells cobra meat here, in BSD, Tangerang, Jakarta.

 

[koshergrl]

How the hell does a 10 year old even have the interest in becoming a vegan?

They learn about stuff like that in school, nowadays.

Funny thing, my nephew is home-schooled. I won't ask my brother about his politics because I suspect he voted for Obama and I don't want to start anything. lol. But they're home-schooling Mormons - the kids are aged 18 months to 10 years - and the oldest went vegan and/or vegetarian.

Fun family.

I can't imagine home-schooling Mormons voting for Obama. He is pretty much adamantly opposed to everything that Mormons believe in.

 

[Amelia]

They learn about stuff like that in school, nowadays.

Funny thing, my nephew is home-schooled. I won't ask my brother about his politics because I suspect he voted for Obama and I don't want to start anything. lol. But they're home-schooling Mormons - the kids are aged 18 months to 10 years - and the oldest went vegan and/or vegetarian.

Fun family.

I can't imagine home-schooling Mormons voting for Obama. He is pretty much adamantly opposed to everything that Mormons believe in.

Harry Reid favors Obama. And I've met Mormon Democrats in Utah and Wisconsin. It happens. I just get the feeling that my brother is a liberal. He's Generation X and makes his living with computers but has a fine arts background.

He's a renaissance guy. And based on how he spoke about Bush the last time we spoke politics, I would not be surprised if he did support Obama.

But I may never know. Just not going there.

 

[Crackerjack]

How the hell does a 10 year old even have the interest in becoming a vegan?

They learn about stuff like that in school, nowadays.

Fact. Like when they are taught at tender young ages to revere the current President, Barack Husein Obama, Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

It's alarming. My kid came back from pre-K a few years ago telling me some story about how she sat down "criss-cross applesauce" and I had to stop her to have her explain that. It apparently is the PC way to say "Indian style."

All I could do is shake my head ...

 

[gallantwarrior]

How the hell does a 10 year old even have the interest in becoming a vegan?

They learn about stuff like that in school, nowadays.

Funny thing, my nephew is home-schooled. I won't ask my brother about his politics because I suspect he voted for Obama and I don't want to start anything. lol. But they're home-schooling Mormons - the kids are aged 18 months to 10 years - and the oldest went vegan and/or vegetarian.

Fun family.

I home schooled my daughter her first three years of high school. The only class she attended was JROTC (her choice). I did it in part because of the banana-condom thing, and more because she was so bored in class. I was amazed at how much more she learned at home, and how much I remembered! She aced her GED first try.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I mentioned this in another thread a while back.
One of my hobbies is eating exotic foods. And by "foods" I mean meats.
The animals I've eaten in my lifetime:

1. Monkey
2. Rattlesnake
3. Wild pig
3. Buffalo
4. Elk
5. Reindeer
6. Squirrel
7. Turtle
8. Camel
9. Lion
10. Zebra
11. Horse
12. Pigeon (eggs)
13. Goose
14. Meal worms
15. Shark
16. Possum
17. Ostrich
18. Kangaroo
19. Iguana

My goal is to eat these animals as well before I take the dirt nap: whale, grasshopper, dog, and bear. Of course, I'll keep an ear and my mind open for whatever oddity comes along.

While I haven't eaten zebra, I have eaten whale, grasshopper, dog, and bear. Bear and moose are the two animals most likely to find their way into my freezer. OK, I took a pass on the meal worms, too.

 

[Crackerjack]

PETA represents a group of arrogant assholes who want things their way, now. No exceptions. As stated, I am a hunter. I have my reasons. Given their way, the people of PETA would eliminate what is basically part of my spiritual relationship with the world I live in. The relationship between vegans/vegetarians/PETA is in some way like one of the questions on the GREs with those intersecting circles...all PETA members are vegans, but all vegans are not PETA members.

While I don't like anything being killed, HUNTING is ten million times more humane than buying meat in a supermarket (that was raised, tortured and slaughtered in a disgusting factory farm).

I have much more respect for a hunter who goes for a swift and painless kill (via bullet) than someone who works in a factory farm and inhumanely treats animals before killing them. Props to you for that.

An even better, cleaner kill is when you use archery tackle. Most of the time, the animals don't even know what hit them. There's also much less wasted meat when you use bow and arrow. As for the animals I raise, they also never know what hit them. I usually present them with a dish of grain and then pop them with a .22. They are dead before they hit the ground and die happy with a mouthful of goodies.

You might enjoy this book:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Deer-Hunting-Converting-Pennies/dp/1438984189/ref=wl_it_dp_o_piT1_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=KU15E6YVC8I3&coliid=IR5EXL0VMFELQ]Amazon.com: Backyard Deer Hunting: Converting Deer to Dinner for Pennies per Pound (9781438984186): Wm. Hovey Smith: Books[/ame]

 

[koshergrl]

My kids went from a tiny charter school, where they attended a mixed-grade class (grades 1-4). It's really hard to gauge where they are academically when they're in the only class...but when I moved and they went into the school here they were leaps and bounds ahead of the other kids, particularly in math, but in reading too.

 

[gallantwarrior]

While I don't like anything being killed, HUNTING is ten million times more humane than buying meat in a supermarket (that was raised, tortured and slaughtered in a disgusting factory farm).

I have much more respect for a hunter who goes for a swift and painless kill (via bullet) than someone who works in a factory farm and inhumanely treats animals before killing them. Props to you for that.

An even better, cleaner kill is when you use archery tackle. Most of the time, the animals don't even know what hit them. There's also much less wasted meat when you use bow and arrow. As for the animals I raise, they also never know what hit them. I usually present them with a dish of grain and then pop them with a .22. They are dead before they hit the ground and die happy with a mouthful of goodies.

You might enjoy this book:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Deer-Hunting-Converting-Pennies/dp/1438984189/ref=wl_it_dp_o_piT1_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=KU15E6YVC8I3&coliid=IR5EXL0VMFELQ]Amazon.com: Backyard Deer Hunting: Converting Deer to Dinner for Pennies per Pound (9781438984186): Wm. Hovey Smith: Books[/ame]

I'll look into it, but we don't have deer on the mainland in Alaska. Moose are the closest thing we've got, and one of those is plenty. I've actually given up actively hunting until my daughter and granddaughters get back in state. One moose would last me at least five years, and that's if I entertain a LOT. Hell, it takes me two weeks to process one once I have it down. Funny thing, all your friends are all into "I'll come help, just let me know" until you knock one of those monsters down. 1200 lbs on the hoof makes for quite a freezer pack...

 

[gallantwarrior]

My kids went from a tiny charter school, where they attended a mixed-grade class (grades 1-4). It's really hard to gauge where they are academically when they're in the only class...but when I moved and they went into the school here they were leaps and bounds ahead of the other kids, particularly in math, but in reading too.

The cool thing about home-schooling in Alaska is, it isn't all that uncommon. You can enroll in a state funded program and you have control about how much your child learns, and just which subjects they learn about. It's really kind of nice. Since I work grave shift, I was able to attend many of my daughter's morning classes and experience first hand just how ridiculous classes were. The retired Gunny who lead the JROTC though, he was the "tops". This high school had over 250 students enrolled in JROTC...that's how good the program was.

 

[IGetItAlready]

My wife's cousin and a friend of his were traveling around getting high and "discovering themselves" several years ago and ended up "crashing" in our Sacramento apartment for a while.
Don't know if they considered themselves Vegans or Vegetarians but the stuff they would cook and eat in my home reeked worse than the crap the Russian family downstairs was always cooking.
Unfortunately, I liked the Russians much more than these guys...That whole thing didn't last long.
Last I knew they were headed to Anaheim for a Dead show. That was about 18 years ago.

As far as what I think, weak and unhealthy are the two words that first pop into my head when someone says they're making a conscious decision to eat an unnatural diet.

 

[Liability]

They learn about stuff like that in school, nowadays.

Fact. Like when they are taught at tender young ages to revere the current President, Barack Husein Obama, Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

It's alarming. My kid came back from pre-K a few years ago telling me some story about how she sat down "criss-cross applesauce" and I had to stop her to have her explain that. It apparently is the PC way to say "Indian style."

All I could do is shake my head ...

Criss Cross? Didn't he write some pretty bad music in the 80's?

 

[Crackerjack]

An even better, cleaner kill is when you use archery tackle. Most of the time, the animals don't even know what hit them. There's also much less wasted meat when you use bow and arrow. As for the animals I raise, they also never know what hit them. I usually present them with a dish of grain and then pop them with a .22. They are dead before they hit the ground and die happy with a mouthful of goodies.

You might enjoy this book:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Deer-Hunting-Converting-Pennies/dp/1438984189/ref=wl_it_dp_o_piT1_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=KU15E6YVC8I3&coliid=IR5EXL0VMFELQ]Amazon.com: Backyard Deer Hunting: Converting Deer to Dinner for Pennies per Pound (9781438984186): Wm. Hovey Smith: Books[/ame]

I'll look into it, but we don't have deer on the mainland in Alaska. Moose are the closest thing we've got, and one of those is plenty. I've actually given up actively hunting until my daughter and granddaughters get back in state. One moose would last me at least five years, and that's if I entertain a LOT. Hell, it takes me two weeks to process one once I have it down. Funny thing, all your friends are all into "I'll come help, just let me know" until you knock one of those monsters down. 1200 lbs on the hoof makes for quite a freezer pack...

Ah, okay. I didn't know you were in Alaska.

 

[Crackerjack]

Fact. Like when they are taught at tender young ages to revere the current President, Barack Husein Obama, Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

It's alarming. My kid came back from pre-K a few years ago telling me some story about how she sat down "criss-cross applesauce" and I had to stop her to have her explain that. It apparently is the PC way to say "Indian style."

All I could do is shake my head ...

Criss Cross? Didn't he write some pretty bad music in the 80's?

Thank God she's too young to remember that.