Venus Fly Traps
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:28 pm
I have some. Does anyone else?
They're awesome.
They're awesome.
A group for contestants and lovers of the Channel 4 game show 'Countdown'.
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You are so b& from CO:LON.Jon Corby wrote:Have we got any vegetarians on the board? We should have a thread on that. Idiots.
Good, didn't want to come anyway, I'd rather stay at home and feed wasps to plants.Michael Wallace wrote:You are so b& from CO:LON.Jon Corby wrote:Have we got any vegetarians on the board? We should have a thread on that. Idiots.
Vegetarianism, purely as a dietary paradigm, is fine by me but don't get me started on militant vegetarians/vegans who claim that 'meat is murder'.Jon Corby wrote:Have we got any vegetarians on the board? We should have a thread on that. Idiots.
Geronimo 7 vs 22Heather Badcock wrote:"Meat is murder." Jesus
Moral theorists advance a strong argument for the case that eating meat is immoral. For instance, we routinely ascribe rights to the mentally deficient or infants so the issue is not can they think but can they suffer? For Kant, since it is inhuman to inflict suffering then it must be inhuman to subject a non-human animal to suffering [of course suffering means more than the method used to kill the animal]. For a modern thinker, like Tom Regan, the animal is a "subject of a life" and has rights as such which goes further than Kant: it does not root it in humanism.Chris Davies wrote:Vegetarianism, purely as a dietary paradigm, is fine by me but don't get me started on militant vegetarians/vegans who claim that 'meat is murder'.Jon Corby wrote:Have we got any vegetarians on the board? We should have a thread on that. Idiots.
Does this come under "talk shit that nobody understands about philosophy reply"?David O'Donnell wrote:Moral theorists advance a strong argument for the case that eating meat is immoral. For instance, we routinely ascribe rights to the mentally deficient or infants so the issue is not can they think but can they suffer? For Kant, since it is inhuman to inflict suffering then it must be inhuman to subject a non-human animal to suffering [of course suffering means more than the method used to kill the animal]. For a modern thinker, like Tom Regan, the animal is a "subject of a life" and has rights as such which goes further than Kant: it does not root it in humanism.Chris Davies wrote:Vegetarianism, purely as a dietary paradigm, is fine by me but don't get me started on militant vegetarians/vegans who claim that 'meat is murder'.Jon Corby wrote:Have we got any vegetarians on the board? We should have a thread on that. Idiots.
I have made this argument many times before but, epistemologically speaking, the argument that the non-human animal does not suffer etc is weak. We can never truly know how the non-human animal experiences its existence. There can be no litigation where the non-human animal testifies to its wrongs. Instead we have a debate where the discussion is carried out in the idiom of the defendant, the judge is the defendant, the jury is the defendant and the plaintiff is represented by the defendant.
Now, I eat meat but I do not baulk when someone tells me "meat is murder". I agree, but I tell them meat tastes good and while it is not illegal to slaughter animals for food I am happy to be immoral.
I tried to keep it simple too but I guess I over-estimate my audience.Ryan Taylor wrote: Does this come under "talk shit that nobody understands about philosophy reply"?
I understood, FWIW. I'd pretty much stopped eating meat (although I don't call myself a vegetarian because then people expect you to eat vegetables and I mostly eat Oreos). But over here it's completely impossible, unless you want to eat cheese-on-cheese-with-cheese-topping for every meal. I still try to minimise my meat consumption but after a few weeks of avoiding it altogether it just became too depressing.David O'Donnell wrote:I tried to keep it simple too but I guess I over-estimate my audience.Ryan Taylor wrote: Does this come under "talk shit that nobody understands about philosophy reply"?
I did it for two years and didn't manage the diet properly at all. With the result that I did experience mood swings and the like. Of course, it is doable (and many people are doing it), but I think it takes a little bit of thought regarding your diet options. The first time I had a rare fillet steak, after two years without any meat, was fairly orgasmic.Charlie Reams wrote:I understood, FWIW. I'd pretty much stopped eating meat (although I don't call myself a vegetarian because then people expect you to eat vegetables and I mostly eat Oreos). But over here it's completely impossible, unless you want to eat cheese-on-cheese-with-cheese-topping for every meal. I still try to minimise my meat consumption but after a few weeks of avoiding it altogether it just became too depressing.David O'Donnell wrote:I tried to keep it simple too but I guess I over-estimate my audience.Ryan Taylor wrote: Does this come under "talk shit that nobody understands about philosophy reply"?
Some animals act immorally, humans especially.Jon Corby wrote:Some animals eat other animals. Deal with it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/200 ... n.researchDavid O'Donnell wrote:Some animals act immorally, humans especially.Jon Corby wrote:Some animals eat other animals. Deal with it.
It does nothing to challenge the argument, if anything it augments it.
Poor, I logged on for 2 minutes yesterday and posted that, I expected this to at least be on a second page by now. Disappointing response.David O'Donnell wrote:Some animals act immorally, humans especially.Jon Corby wrote:Some animals eat other animals. Deal with it.
It does nothing to challenge the argument, if anything it augments it.
That is indeed a rare fillet steak.David O'Donnell wrote:The first time I had a rare fillet steak, after two years without any meat
Jon Corby wrote:BTW, anyone going down the "we can't exploit animals for our own gain" route better also be prepared to say "I've never used any conventional medicine and would refuse to be treated in a hospital." Otherwise you can shut your face.
This may cover some of the same ground as David, but it's not necessarily an all or nothing thing. Someone may care about animals and decide that it's unnecessary to eat them so refrains from doing so. But then if it comes to a life or death situation (or even one not as extreme as that) then you have to weigh things up against each other.Jon Corby wrote:BTW, anyone going down the "we can't exploit animals for our own gain" route better also be prepared to say "I've never used any conventional medicine and would refuse to be treated in a hospital." Otherwise you can shut your face.
I believe that Jehovah witnesses can refuse life saving blood transfusions for their children, unless a court of law orders it. If I locked my children in a room and starved them to death I would be charged murder. What's the difference?.Jon Corby wrote:That's all fair enough, but I just want these hippies to refuse treatment.
Urm, no difference. As you said yourself, a court won't let you starve your child to death or deprive them of a transfusion that would save their life.George F. Jenkins wrote:I believe that Jehovah witnesses can refuse life saving blood transfusions for their children, unless a court of law orders it. If I locked my children in a room and starved them to death I would be charged murder. What's the difference?.Jon Corby wrote:That's all fair enough, but I just want these hippies to refuse treatment.
They can tryGeorge F. Jenkins wrote:I believe that Jehovah witnesses can refuse life saving blood transfusions for their children, unless a court of law orders it. If I locked my children in a room and starved them to death I would be charged murder. What's the difference?.Jon Corby wrote:That's all fair enough, but I just want these hippies to refuse treatment.
George F? Jenkins.George F. Jenkins wrote:I believe that Jehovah witnesses can refuse life saving blood transfusions for their children, unless a court of law orders it. If I locked my children in a room and starved them to death I would be charged murder. What's the difference?.Jon Corby wrote:That's all fair enough, but I just want these hippies to refuse treatment.
You can also try to starve your kids to death. That doesn't mean a court would let you do it.James Doohan wrote:They can tryGeorge F. Jenkins wrote:I believe that Jehovah witnesses can refuse life saving blood transfusions for their children, unless a court of law orders it. If I locked my children in a room and starved them to death I would be charged murder. What's the difference?.Jon Corby wrote:That's all fair enough, but I just want these hippies to refuse treatment.
Maybe I'm missing your point, but you don't have to eat meat to be alive* (and since someone's brought it up - I've never understood the whole "look at our teeth we've evolved to eat meat" thing - there's plenty of stuff we have/haven't evolved to do/not do - it's hardly a justification of anything).Lesley Hines wrote:I would never wish suffering of any kind on any being, human or otherwise, but if it allows me to be alive
We're big brave people, while vegetarians are pasty, anaemic-looking weedsJohn Bosley wrote:I do not know how people can eat chicken without being shit scared.
I eat SO much chicken, it's not even funny. Like 3 or 4 times a week. And I can't remember ever being ill from eating chicken. I got food-poisoning after eating fish and chips once though.John Bosley wrote:I do not know how people can eat chicken without being shit scared.
Yeah I did mean that for the medical bitMichael Wallace wrote:Maybe I'm missing your point, but you don't have to eat meat to be alive* (and since someone's brought it up - I've never understood the whole "look at our teeth we've evolved to eat meat" thing - there's plenty of stuff we have/haven't evolved to do/not do - it's hardly a justification of anything).Lesley Hines wrote:I would never wish suffering of any kind on any being, human or otherwise, but if it allows me to be alive
*Edit: and having re-read your post that statement seems to follow on more directly from the medicine thing than the diet thing. But you still seem to be implying that needing a certain set of vitamins is a justification for this suffering you would never wish on any kind of being.
Only time I've ever had food poisoning was from a vegetarian quesadilla. SO RIDDLE ME THAT, LINDA MCCARTNEY!Jon O'Neill wrote:I eat SO much chicken, it's not even funny. Like 3 or 4 times a week. And I can't remember ever being ill from eating chicken. I got food-poisoning after eating fish and chips once though.John Bosley wrote:I do not know how people can eat chicken without being shit scared.
How old are they when they go to slaughter? Cos that doesn't sound too bad, considering you're trying to paint their conditions as horrific. There must be many areas where human mortality rate is worse than that. Sheffield, for example.John Bosley wrote:• Approx. 6% die before slaughter, from respiratory disease, fatty liver, and heart failure;
They'd be cannibals.John Bosley wrote:I do not know how people can eat chicken without being shit scared.
David O'Donnell wrote:George F? Jenkins.George F. Jenkins wrote:I believe that Jehovah witnesses can refuse life saving blood transfusions for their children, unless a court of law orders it. If I locked my children in a room and starved them to death I would be charged murder. What's the difference?.Jon Corby wrote:That's all fair enough, but I just want these hippies to refuse treatment.
It doesn't stand for Fritzl by any chance?
Is is urban myth or did Kentucky Fried Chicken really have to change its name under the Trade Description Act because it isn't from Kentucky, it isn't fried and it sure as fuck isn't chicken?Jon O'Neill wrote:
Not the Trade Description Act, but http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.asp.David O'Donnell wrote:Is is urban myth or did Kentucky Fried Chicken really have to change its name under the Trade Description Act because it isn't from Kentucky, it isn't fried and it sure as fuck isn't chicken?Jon O'Neill wrote:
OyJon Corby wrote:There must be many areas where human mortality rate is worse than that. Sheffield, for example.