Have you lost faith in the human race?

Question

I mean, with that idiot girl on here today who insisted fish was not meat, and the various meat-eaters (not all, but many) insisting that it's ok to eat meat without giving a logical reason why, do you think the world's IQ is dropping?
The only logical reason to eat meat (cruel as it may seem) is if you like its taste.

Answer 1

Several times.

Answer 2

I haven't, but I know what you mean. It's frustrating.

I was watching TV the other night. It was an old rerun of Seinfeld. In the story, Elaine was giving a hard time to another worman at a party because she was wearing fur. The woman said "are you a vegetarian?" Elaine said, "Yes, I eat no meat, just fish."

I changed the channel. It was Conan O'Brien. Ted Danson was on. Amazingly, Danson said "I'm vegan, but I do eat fish."

What the Hell is going on?

I don't even like to say I'm vegetarian anymore; I'd rather just say "I don't eat animals" because the word "vegetarian" is losing it's meaning.

Sorry everyone if I keep harping on this, but my wife is a Dietitian with a degree in Nutrition. She works at a hospital giving diet counseling to mentally ill people. She was raised vegetarian. THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE IDEA THAT A VEGETARIAN DIET CANNOT BE HEALTHY. A lot of people come on this forum with no qualifications, just an opinion. Let them to try get a job with a hospital doing diet counseling.

I still have a lot of faith in the human race (but sometimes I wonder why).

Answer 3

I agree. Society has become void of dicipline, humanity, and independance. People believe what they want without taking initiative to do the research themselves. They won't admit there errors so they live life in denial because they feel their pride would be hurt if they were wrong, watching MTV has become more important than their health and their environment, they look for the easy way to loose weight even if it's unhealthy instead of eating a balanced diet and getting exercise. Society is slowly hitting a downfall and I partially blame parents for letting their kids become what they are and then I blame the kids for not using their free will to realize problems and try to find a way to fix them. The big problem is that even if the teachers, doctors, and politicians support a change for the better parents won't and they will continue to lead their kids down a path of distruction rather than progress. I think the majority of people don't care about prevention but rather wait for someone to come up with an alternative solution later on. For example global warming. There are a million things people can do to reduce or prevent the effects of global warming but they choose not to due to inconvenience and they expect someone to come up with a miracle cure to stop it. Like Voltaire said, "Optimism leads to fatalism." I completely agree. If we ignore what's around us we will never fight for change and therefore we will die within our own broken society.

Answer 4

That would be the reason. People love the taste and texture of meat. ( I don't think it makes you an idiot though.) My daughter is a vegetarian, but she doesn't push her opinions on other people. She does realize it's her body and she's made her choice. Not everyone has to be just like her and she knows this.

Answer 5

The world IQ is dropping because they can't keep the mom and dad home to tech the kids there.Plus everything you see on the news is always for a buck.

Answer 6

Actually, I'm pretty optimistic about the human race. But for my reality check lest I forget the biblical injunctiure "The idiots will always be with you"--I come to V&V forum.

It maintains my optimism that with such astounding statemetns as"The only logical reason to eat meat (cruel as it may seem) is if you like its taste". Does that mean fanatical veggie-heads would eat meat if it tasted like crap? OR Is that why all you airheads are looking for substitutes that duplicate the taste of "meat"

I mean that seems cruel doesn't it? Replicating the taste of meat keeps alive the notion that meat tastes good.

If you want to help defenceless animals, convince people they taste like crap. Don't go trying to make veggie processed crap taste like "meat".

EDIT: It is interesting to observe "veggie head logic" in action. Somehow the question and some answers predicate that the decline of the human race is somehow connected with eating meat, or how meat is defined. ROFLMAO ....

Answer 7

i accept as true with kadiss 17, i think we continuously had persons like that and incorrect-doers. the adaptation is in basic terms arrention via the media. you will desire to declare lack of expertise is bliss. interior the previous whilst we didnt have televisions and radios, information of abducted toddlers, racial bullying, political scams, burglaries, rapes and murders have been stored quieter and localised to the element of the crime. words unfold via mouth are rapid, yet no longer swifter than the flick of the activate a television distant administration. the hazards have been nevertheless there, per danger as much as now, yet devoid of any thank you to unfold warning we've been blind to the ill and twisted minds of criminals, mothers despatched their toddlers out to play devoid of any 2d theory, she might deliver them off to college and walk down the line to bypass to a pal devoid of even possessing a key or lock on their front door- risk-free practices became in basic terms time-honored returned then as an emotional state of convenience a guy can furnish to his spouse, or a mom can furnish to her baby. risk-free practices returned then didnt mean alarms, bolts, locks and keys. no animal is ideal, even the animal kingdom has many flaws. the intercourse pests and addicts, cheats, liers, murderers and terrorists you talk of existed 10 years in the past, even 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 yrs in the past, yet we now have BBC information 24 to remind us each and every 2d of daily of those flaws.

Answer 8

After some of the questions and responses I've read this week, I'm afraid I have to agree with you. The world is getting dumber.

Answer 9

I just recently decided to go completely vegetarian..but inside i always knew it was so wrong and tried to block out my guilt.....but it feels so much better to be honest with myself about what i am eating...I dont want to hold it against people who eat meat I think its just ignorance...If you are a person with a heart and soul and you are eating defenseless animals...I think your lying to yourself...thats all there is to it...

Answer 10

Not only that she has selected her "best answer" it said fish were vegetarian even though it got 20 thumbs down and zero up.