Killing Vegans One By One ... ?!?!?

[sunny-dave]

It seems that you need to be much more careful about the use of irony and hyperbole - even in a suposedly private exchange of emails with someone you thought was a friend ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46024087

Twitter is (of course) in meltdown as snowflake vegans with malfunctioning (or missing) humour circuits ramp up the faux outrage.

I'll be really offended if he has to resign and will withdraw my custom ... unless they send me free meat parcels as compensation ...

Sausage Dave xx

[Ken4155]

Spicerack @ 13:20; "How long do you usually have to romaine like that Ken" Not long, Spicerack, cos i know when they're most likely to be hungry.

[spathiphyllum]

I have never met someone and said "by the way did i mention i eat meat".. Probably because it's me own business, also my diet is exactly that... Mine :D

[sunny-dave]

My first dog - a seriously omnivorous collie - would eat anything - chairs, slippers, even (at a push) Brussels Sprouts ...

... the only 'food item' she ever rejected was a "Linda McCartney Vegetarian Sausage" ... pushed it around her bowl for a while then sniffed and walked away in a huff ... to be fair, it had already been rejected as inedible by all the humans present (including our tame veggie).

[spathiphyllum]

Well one argument for not eating meat is that it's all processed.. From where i'm sitting all these vegans actually eat "transition foods" which, are more processed than most meats.

The only vegan products the earth will produce are ones off of your own back. Home grown. Anything but is hypocrisy.. "but doing something is better than doing nothing" yes only if you force it down others throats

[spathiphyllum]

The process to get farmers lettuce to shelf's involves the use animal products. The process to get fertile soil uses animal products. The process to pollinate things such as broccoli etc.. uses forced bee labour. Broccoli is a vegetable that finds itself very hard to pollinate. Without bees being forced to pollinate them (trust me, it's a fact, same as avocados) we would not have these "vegan friendly products" in such high numbers.

[Spicerack]

I ate one of them, Dave. it was soon coming up.

[AuntLydia]

What an utterly stupid thing for Sitwell to write down in an email. Shows total lack of judgement and maturity. We should all be encouraged to eat less meat for the good of the planet,but I agree some Vegans and Vegetarians don't do the cause any good by being so self righteous about it.

[Spicerack]

Free The Bees. (ooh, aah, ouch)

[spathiphyllum]

http://beeaware.org.au/pollination/pollinator-reliant-crops/avocados/


The modern trend of smashed avacado is not only run by animal use, it also has severe affects on deforestation.

[AuntLydia]

spath could you expand on how you force a bee to do anything?

[spathiphyllum]

Yes, you keep them locked up, only allowing them to pollinate in a certain way with a certain pollen. The link i provided above may highlight how the usage of bees (use of an animal produce) is essential for agriculture of avocados, broccoli etc.. etc..

[spathiphyllum]

AL, it's the same reason vegans don't eat honey.. or unfertilised eggs?

[Peter Pedant]

// Twitter is (of course) in meltdown as snowflake vegans with malfunctioning (or missing) humour circuits ramp up the faux outrage. //

it was a journo for chrissakes - they are gonna write anything at a halfpenny an inch of copy....

I said what I thought to a journo and what's he been and gone and done ? He printed it
er yeah so what ?

[spathiphyllum]

It's called migratory beekeeping

[Peter Pedant]

// how the usage of bees (use of an animal produce) is essential for agriculture of avocados,//

yeah you need insects before sex in plants ( dioeicious and all that sort of thing ) - what does a plant look like before the evolution of insects ( shh! theland is around - before god created insects on late saturday afternoon?) - wellingtonia / sequoia ( red wood) is an example

not many botanists are strict vegans I think

[AuntLydia]

Spath That link is to a comedy show. The bees are not forced to pollinate anything, they are kept in their hives which are transported to areas that need pollinating and the hives opened to allow them to pollinate and gather, this is their natural behavior. If you had bothered to read the article you posted a link to you would have read that the bees collect enough pollen to actually create honey, all these things are natural behaviours and not 'forced'. Unless you think keeping bees for honey is cruel but that.s another story.

[spathiphyllum]

AL, so you're saying the use of bees are not used?

and nothing funny about the sheer intellect of QI...

[spathiphyllum]

https://experiment.com/projects/home-sick-effects-of-migratory-beekeeping-on-honey-bee-disease

How migratory bee keeping can spread disease through the bee species ^^

[AuntLydia]

spath Bees are used to pollinate. Pollination is a natural behaviour of the bee. The are not tied by little strings and beaten with a stick until they pollinated the flower, therefore, in my opinion, they are not being forced to pollinate.

[spathiphyllum]

Are you a vegan?