Am I the only who believes that "Sainsbury's" banners are there just to harass vegetarians and vegans?

Question

Folks, recently I have asked some questions which expose the meat eaters for what they are, a moraless group of people who have no reguard for the life of innocent animal beings. This moraless group feels that it is necessary to post questions asking stuff like, "What's the quickest way to cook salmon?". The meat eaters responsible for this know that it is going to get a rise out of vegeterians and vegans This is why they place the banner so that it is viewable from the Vegetarian and Vegan category.

I encourage each and every vegetarian and vegan to continue to stand for justice. Do not be discouraged by these cowardly meat eaters who post in our section.

Answer 1

Come on...it's a business - I'm sure any site with has a food section will have a Sainsbury's, Waitrose (or other food stores) ads. blinking in our wee faces.

Answer 2

I'd like to hear your explanation behind calling us cowardly. I'm my opinion posting views that contrast with yours doesn't constitute cowardice.
Your general implication is 'they don't agree with me, so they're wrong/immoral/cowardly/etc'. It doesn't sound to me like your someone who particularly agrees with freedom of speech.
Now, as for morality, it may be against your individual morals but that doesn't mean it's immoral. The fact is eating meat is acceptable to almost all people in the country, nay, the world. I can only imagine that you feel a burning desire to make yourself feel special and pure and thus somehow better than everyone else by abstaining from the pleasures of meat; have you that low self confidence. The way you act seems akin to the puritans of old, and equally retarded.

Now, as for Sainsbury's, I think your reading way too much into this, which only highlights you arrogance and self importance. They posted questions about food, in the food section...shock bloody horror! That it can be seen from the veggie section is unfortunate but not offensive in the least if you have a rational bone in your body, which you quite clearly don't.

Get over yourself and get a life you sad, sad person.

Answer 3

Actually moraless is not a word so I don't know what you are going on about, you can't possibly mean immoral or amoral because eating meat is neither of these. I'll just assume that you are trying feebly to be insulting.

From your lack of proper vocabulary and tetchy temper I can tell that you don't eat enough oily fish - it is thought to be good for you brain don't you know!

Maybe if you ate meat like most of the rest of mankind you would have a more balanced diet and therefore not have such a bad attitude.

Answer 4

I was a vegetarian for about 7 years or so. A good portion of that time I spent as a vegan. But since I moved from the British Isles to Australia I became an avowed carnivore again.

There were a few different reasons for being a meat eater again. Not least the fact that here in Australia people love their BBQ's. It is a beautiful sight to see the men standing around the barbeque having a bit of a banter with a stubby of VB beer in one hand cooking meat.

Aussies love their meat. They even cook their own national emblem, the kangaroo, on the barbie. Although I am not really a big fan of 'roo being a bit to gamey for my tastes. Having said that I LOVE meat. Especially a nicely cooked bit of steak with some lovely relish or some tender lamb with rosemary. The lamb here is sensational.

I don't think I would ever go back to being a vegetarian and having kids has taught me that we were born to eat meat. When my daughter was young we gave her a chicken drumstick and she ripped it apart like some little cave-girl. It was such a funny sight to behold but reinforced in me the belief that we humans are MEANT to eat meat.

Another thing that made me start ENJOYING meat again was not just the lifestyle here but the fact that I looked unhealthy compared to meat eaters. Here was I coming along to a BBQ, pale and underweight armed with my soy sausages pleading with the host to cook them separately. After having the piss taken out of so many times and my little soy snags being cooked in meat juice ANYWAY I had enough.

So I thought WHAT THE HELL I will show them. So I picked up a lump of juicy steak and wolfed it down like a wild animal to the sounds of my friends cheering and taking pictures. I haven't looked back since that day and feel pround every time I fire up my 'Beef Master' barbeque that my friends bought me as a gift!

As far as morals go I am of the firm belief that morals are not only a construct of the human mind but do not exist anywhere else in nature. Why is it natural for a lion to hunt down prey, kill it and eat it but when a human does it is morally reprehensible? I respect that vegetarianism is a choice but vegetarians beliefs should not be imposed on other people much the same that a persons religious beliefs should not be rammed down another persons throat so to speak.

Answer 5

Although I don't agree with attacking ppl who eat meat (NOT a good way to get ppl to see things our way) I believe this question was in reference to those particular ppl posting meat-related questions in the vegetarian section.

And for those wondering where this lashing out comes from, just read some of the above ignorant answers from meat eaters. Vegetarianism has been around for centuries. Pythagoras himself was a vegetarian. This is not a new thing, and to the person talking about science.... humans have the jaws and teeth of herbivores and although we CAN digest meat, we don't digest it properly like carnivorous animals do. They have strong hydrochloric acid in their stomachs, the acid in human stomachs is 20 times weaker.

I don't believe the person posting this question is attacking ppl in third world countries who eat meat either, he is attacking the North American gluttonous attitudes. If all of North America only reduced their consumption of meat by 10% it would free up enough land to feed most if not all the starving peoples of the world. It isn't something to be ignored anymore. Whatever your attitudes are towards animals, it's impossible to deny the destruction of our planet. If you are a meat eater, please don't be put off by attacks - we vegetarians face them on a daily basis so it's natural to lash out once in a while - just consider doing your part and reducing the meat products you consume.

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Answer 6

If you know science at all (I'm assuming you don't believe in God as many Vegan's and vegetarians I know do not) you would know that animals who have both a long and short intestine have them for the proccessing of meat. Since humans are animals at best who have a short intestine, as does the trout, the lion, and the eagle, then one would realize that it is there for a reason. If you choose to live an extreme lifestyle then do it, but do not think you are better than anyone for your choices, since, you cannot even find balance in your own diet.

Answer 7

Sorry dude but not all eaters are ignorant people who don't care

It is usually made up of people who don't know the torture these animals go through. I am a vegetarian and it is just the thought of these poor little animals that make me sick. My parents are still meat eaters but they eat the vegetarian food I make and eat it without restraint. If we could educate the world then there wouldn't be people like sainsburry scamming against vegetarians and vegans.

Answer 8

Its just an advert in the Food and Drink section.

i wrote to sainbury's customer care telling them how rubbish it was and what damage they were doing to thier reputation.

The advert is still there today, although yesterday it was pork and today its Salmon.

I guess they don't care about the veggie market.

Go to the Sainsburys website and write to thier customer care via the "contact us " at the bottom of the page. THe more they get, the sooner it'll be gone

You can write to them at:
[e-mail]

Here is my text from todays letter:

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I guess Sainsburys do not care about the damage thier marketing is doing in the vegetarian market.

Your adverts are still on Yahoo today, only this time your advertising Salmon in the veggie section of Yahoo.

Unfortunately I cannot repeat what people are saying about you because that would be just plain rude, insulting and probably illegal.

I wonder why sainsuburys haven't taken action on this, maybe its true what everyone on Yahoo is saying about you ?

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Answer 9

A Polish Philosopher said that what differs between humans and animals is the realisation of future life, a cow lives day by day but humans plan for the future, not just of themselves but for future generations. As a result providing that in the day to day life the cow is happy and that it does not suffer during its death, the cows life will have been as fulfilling as it could have been regardless of when it dies. Why not eat its remains? or wear its skin or use its bones, rather than let it rot? It did only exist for our needs in the first place.

Also the reason that the human brain suddenly started growing, and with it our intelligence, can be directly related to the time that we started eating meat as well as friut and veg. This extra source of protein gave our bodies the neccesary nutriants to expand its capacity to store information, and stimultate problem solving. Our body still depends on this supply meaning that vegetarians and vegans have to over compensate by eating certain types of food to get the correct amount or suffer having abnormal brain activity (ie they are more likely to suffer from depression)

So do you really think eating meat is bad or just the way some people treat them? I only eat free range or wild animals

Answer 10

I feel so strongly for endangered birds that I'm spending $13,000 next year just to earn the credentials to pay attention to them exclusively without losing my house as a consequence. It totally appalls me to consider that in South America and Africa, the birds that I consider children are edible. It's still natural. They aren't cowards to eat what sustains them. I know better than to condemn entire groups of people for anything other than shared malevolence.

The people you're talking about sound like real jerks, but you're just as much of one if you'd crucify anyone who is ideologically similar for something they haven't done. Think he's a jerk and think meat is murder, but please don't think the two things at once. You're not getting anything good done that way.

Answer 11

O.K. your moral highness, tell me what good are animals like beef, pork, chicken, turkey, etc. if NOT to be eaten???? They were created by God with their eyes on the sides of their heads, making them PREY!!! Sort of the same look vegetarians & vegan have, pale palor, spooked look like they are afraid a moraless meat eater is after them......
On the other hand, WE have eyes in the front of our heads like all PREDATORS that GOD created..... That must mean you think God is moraless also HUH??
Tell me this, how many items do you own that are leather?? Do you have down pillows or clothing??
You talk about meat eaters having no reguard for innocent animals. What do you think would happen to the animals if left alone??? Do you think they would live a full & happy life??? Romping in meadows of wild flowers??? NO! they would end up as the meal of bears, big cats, coyotes, wolves, foxes, etc. Like some are now. Little baby lambs that wonder too far from the rest.... Eagle swoops in, DEAD lamb. cattle wandering the hills, SNUFFED OUT by the swipe of a bear's huge paw.

Also, I am offended by vegans & vegitarians. I garden & plant vegetables & flowers. They eat, they breath & they grow, meaning they ARE ALIVE!!!! & "YOU" have NO reguard for the life of innocent plants. OOOPPPSSS!!!! Gotta go, our elk steaks are READY!!!!! YUM YUM!!!

P.S. Do vegetarians & vegans rattle when they walk from all of the vitamins & suppliments they have to take due to their poorly balanced diets?????