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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-08 11:31 PM Original message |
Shelves Empty as Three Plants Stop Beef Production |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-08 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. They were caught using child labor |
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DeposeTheBoyKing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-08 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. "We're not killing anything right now" |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-08 11:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Vegetables have to be killed for us to eat them, too. |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 02:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Vegetables are not sentient beings like cows are. The cow doesn't want to die. |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 07:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Plants don't "want" to die either. They go to an awful lot of trouble to |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 10:08 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Exactly. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 11:51 AM Response to Reply #11 |
24. Two things: |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 08:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. "the cow doesn't want to die" |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 08:55 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Then perhaps they should be given Prozac and |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 09:01 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Welfare mooms? |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 09:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Sluff off this mortal coil? |
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Scout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 11:30 AM Response to Reply #6 |
23. i daresay the cow doesn't know a thing about death |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 07:12 PM Response to Reply #23 |
36. Even spiders recoil and try to save themselves from death. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 07:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
33. How can you tell if a plant is not sentient? |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 02:40 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Well and nicely said n/t |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 06:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. I love it |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 03:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. I never had to chase a carrot, and bib lettuce never struggled against |
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Oak2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. That's because |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 03:59 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. I'm not a vegetarian either. Some plants need to be eaten to reproduce. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Three words: Central. Nervous. System. (nt) |
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Liberalynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 09:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. That particular line |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 03:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. Beef's hard to mimic, but there are good chicken analogues. |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
4. I almost read that as "Beer" production |
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MikeStl (125 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. “We’re not killing anything right now,” |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 02:02 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Yeah, it sounds like they'll go work for blackwater next. |
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gabby garcia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 09:29 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. lol |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 02:41 AM Response to Original message |
9. Heck not to worry Halal meats can be substituted |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 09:11 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. I've always thought it strange |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 10:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Similarity breeds contempt among religions |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. the whole ban on pork thing had to do with trichinosis... |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 11:52 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. There are quite a few other similarities as well |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:50 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. Not so. It had to do with swine being competitors with us in desert regions. |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
20. Let them eat pork! |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
26. Kosher slaughtering is disgusting |
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walktall7 (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Out of curiosity |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
35. Good! |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 06:50 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. What's somehow even more awful is the way the rabbinical associations |
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bitchkitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
38. GOOD. n/t |
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