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#1472390
ScrappyB
If we weren't meant to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?
11/21/2012 3:37:39 AM
#1472402
Leighton Buzzard
Glory be, a trifecta of unusual components; vegetarian, Indian, racist against Inuit ... but as usual Christian.
11/21/2012 4:27:11 AM
#1472403
anevilmeme
A veggie fundie?
11/21/2012 4:28:08 AM
#1472408
Tempus
My bacon and I think you're full of shit.
11/21/2012 4:41:48 AM
#1472414
Justanotheratheist
What fucking Creator of the Universe?
11/21/2012 4:58:51 AM
#1472424
UHM
Ok then.
11/21/2012 5:27:43 AM
#1472425
Frostythesnowman
My first thought when I read this was 'where the fuck would an Inuit get vegetables? I've been to the Arctic and, the Inuit are neither lazy nor sluggish, but there's just a bit too much ice to make the growing of crops a successful enterprise.
But that aside, it's an unusual approach to asshatted bigotry. Whatever next? Sikhs having a go at Australian Aboriginies for eating wallabies?
11/21/2012 5:28:53 AM
#1472446
AbsurdONE
Wow. Just... But, I... But... Just, damn!
I did not expect to see this kind of bullshit crop up. I mean, hey, there are two sides to the whole vegetarian thing. You’ve got the aggressively batshit PETA activists that seem to dominate the media on animal rights topics, and you’ve got people that sit down and make a rational choice on matters of health, environment, and ethics.
I just never thought mystical and religious bullshit would play into it. I mean it does; there are vegans into New Age nonsense and there are vegetarian Hindus, sure. But for that side of the debate to worm its way into schools, even in a country as superstitious as India? Wow.
Frankly, reading that first line, I expected some misguided vegan to start spouting bullshit about how meat clings to your gut for life, or how all your B12 needs can be acquired from not washing your veggies, and how even lacto-vegetarians are sickly monsters. (Mind you, I'm not saying vegans are like that as a rule, especially given that I am one myself. But just as bronies can't deny the existence of cloppers, I can’t deny the existence of New Age moonbats among vegans.) The rest of that just caught me off guard.
11/21/2012 6:15:47 AM
#1472450
AbsurdONE
@Leighton Buzzard
Probably Hindu, actually. Christians aren't the only ones that believe in a supreme creator, and Christians aren’t likely to tie vegetarianism into religious fundamentalism. Plus, it’s India.
11/21/2012 6:27:17 AM
#1472451
SpukiKitty
At first, I was like "This is new! The Hindutva crowd! Hindu fundies! They can be asshats! Vegetarianism is big in conservative Sanatana Dharma...."
Then I read the line about Adam & Eve...
"Oh, more Christofundies being jerks, again!"
Gad! They're even infesting India, now!
As usual, the Indian Government, oft-riddled with corruption, ignores it as usual.
In India, you have Hindufundies, Islamofundies & Christofundies pummeling each other & a Government made up of complete nincompoops! It's a shame, India is a nation with so much beauty, history & spirituality yet it's mired in all that corruption, poverty, environmental pollution & ignorance. It wasn't always that way, though...blame that on British Colonialism & Islamofundies throughout the centuries.
That said, India is moving up the economic ladder, has a faboo movie industry & is home to many highly educated minds in math, science, computers, industry...and hard-working, family-oriented people in general.
This textbook thing, however, is el-stupido & I hope somebody does SOMETHING about this!
11/21/2012 6:28:05 AM
#1472455
Raised by Horses
The book's scholarly merits were unfortunately somewhat undermined by its title: "Temptations of the Flesh: Together, We Can Beat The Meat".
11/21/2012 6:31:08 AM
#1472459
AburdONE
@SpukiKitty
Don’t Hindus incorporate many other beliefs into their own? I know for certain that many Hindus regard Jesus and the Guatama Buddha as avatars of Vishnu.
Speaking of that stupid textbook, though, have you seen the cover? It’s as if they went out of their way to iolate every graphic design principle in the book! It’s got layers of stupidity caked all over it. Stupidception!
11/21/2012 6:35:52 AM
#1472464
Doubting Thomas
If God didn't intend man to eat animals, why did he make them so damn tasty?
Mmmmm, bacon.
11/21/2012 6:54:20 AM
#1472469
ipunchvegans
More proof that without meat, the brain degenerates. Eat meat, or you end up like these wackjobs. And never trust anyone claiming to be a vegetarian.
11/21/2012 7:02:15 AM
#1472477
Mister Spak
"Meat-eaters "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes", according to a controversial school textbook available in India. "
These meat eaters have an amazing resemblence to atheists.
11/21/2012 7:13:01 AM
#1472485
Rob aka Mediancat
I'm a vegetarian myself. Sure, meat-eaters cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes. But so do vegetarians. A dietary choice, for whatever reason, is a dietary choice, and that's it. Good grief, this is dumb.
11/21/2012 7:17:28 AM
#1472506
The author, like all vegan fundies, conveniently neglects to mention that the human body, contrary to vegan mythology, can not produce B12 (some is produced in the gut but it can't be absorbed), and must get it from animal products or from supplements. But I'm sure Adam and Eve had vitamins pills, right?
Since when do Hindus talk about Adam and Eve, anyway?
11/21/2012 7:38:05 AM
#1472516
Deep Search
Hahaa... Oh, god. Teach children about being vegetarian and its positive effects, sure. Don't make up insane, including racist, crap. Seriously, it's easy. In India vegetarianism is pretty accessible due to their culture and belief systems.
11/21/2012 7:50:12 AM
#1472520
"They easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes,"
Hmmmm. Maybe we whould try taking meat away from the Republicans.
11/21/2012 7:53:40 AM
#1472530
breakerslion
"Meat-eaters easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes..."
"Sugar-eaters easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes..."
"Nut-eaters easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes..."
"Broccoli-eaters easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes..."
I sense a pattern emerging.
11/21/2012 8:22:58 AM
#1472547
Rabbit of Caerbannog
I'm a vegetarian and you're insane.
11/21/2012 8:45:34 AM
#1472555
Indians being racist against Indians, wow!
11/21/2012 8:56:05 AM
#1472556
Ebon
Sadly, this (the bullshit that humans are not natural meat eaters) is fairly typical of militant vegetarians/vegans (for the vegetarians/vegans here, note the use of the word "militant"). They think of meat as something akin to nuclear waste that destroys one's health as soon as one consumes even a bite.
11/21/2012 8:56:56 AM
#1472565
Papabear
So that's it. The key to world peace is vegetarianism? Golly gosh, why didn't we think of that centuries ago? Oh, wait, it's because it's bullocks, huh?
11/21/2012 9:05:10 AM
#1472570
Caucasoid's Suck
Still, they sure are right about the Englishmen though.
11/21/2012 9:24:56 AM
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