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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 974981" data-attributes="member: 8439">Well, dragging things even further off topic, there are a lot of reasons for going veg. Inhuman is one, but its human (and probably animal) nature to rank different species in the deservingness of humane behavior - human &gt; dog &gt; cow &gt; chicken &gt; fish &gt; arthropod is not unusual, and to be honest its really no more &quot;hypocritical&quot; to eat ugly fish that you can't see a personality in but not animals you have interacted with than to eat cows but throw a rod at the idea of cultures who eat dogs...Health reasons can also figure in, as can environmental ones. Or social justice ones. Or just deciding as an individual that this is where your comfort level evens out.A random note - people tend to accuse vegies of prosteletizing or trying to change human nature or whathaveyou... I've very rarely seen this. A few humorous bumper stickers, vegans who ask that meat dishes not be brough to potlucks held at their houses. However, I've seen A LOT of non vegetarians attack vegetarianism as an option. It ties in with a tendancy I've seen in other areas to react strongly against someone who does without that which you cannot or will not. I find it interesting...Kahuna burger</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 974981, member: 8439"] Well, dragging things even further off topic, there are a lot of reasons for going veg. Inhuman is one, but its human (and probably animal) nature to rank different species in the deservingness of humane behavior - human > dog > cow > chicken > fish > arthropod is not unusual, and to be honest its really no more "hypocritical" to eat ugly fish that you can't see a personality in but not animals you have interacted with than to eat cows but throw a rod at the idea of cultures who eat dogs... Health reasons can also figure in, as can environmental ones. Or social justice ones. Or just deciding as an individual that this is where your comfort level evens out. A random note - people tend to accuse vegies of prosteletizing or trying to change human nature or whathaveyou... I've very rarely seen this. A few humorous bumper stickers, vegans who ask that meat dishes not be brough to potlucks held at their houses. However, I've seen A LOT of non vegetarians attack vegetarianism as an option. It ties in with a tendancy I've seen in other areas to react strongly against someone who does without that which you cannot or will not. I find it interesting... Kahuna burger [/QUOTE]

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