+200 It's not easy, explaining vegetarianism to starving African children, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I have to imagine it would be a lot harder to explain that we're using the overwhelming majority of crops grown in the country to feed livestock. Factory farming is the biggest waste of food in the world. The amount of crops necessary to produce a single eight ounce steak could feed about forty-five people. World hunger could be eradicated if factory farming were to end. By consuming meat, you're funding the primary reason that those African children are starving.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You my friend, are why people hate vegetarians, you strengthen the stereotype that vegetarians think their diet makes them superior in every physical and mental way, and no one likes your kind of pretentious arrogance. If you reply I'll take it as denial and laugh at my victory

by Anonymous 11 years ago

They were just giving facts you moron.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

In addition to the previous response to your defensiveness by anonymous, it was really the OP of this post who started it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was responding to the OP, who, by the way, is the one to bring up vegetarianism in the first place. He was clearly misinformed, so I corrected him. If you're bothered by those who present opposing viewpoints to yours and engage in debates, I'm not entirely sure why you're on this website.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You down-voted my comment because it proved you totally wrong...?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, I was too lazy to explain why you are wrong. Laziness is wrong too, but wth eh.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's because there's no justifiable reason that I'm wrong. I'll assume I'm right until proven otherwise.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And clearly he really doesn't care enough about you thinking you're right to explain to you why he believes otherwise. So to say that there's no justifiable reason for you being wrong just because he doesn't feel like putting the effort in to reply is ridiculous.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

People always do.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Short version: what you say is just theoretical. There might be enough food to feed the world, but the food would never get to the hungry mouths.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not a -theory- that the factory farming industry wastes huge amounts of food. And the very fact that vegetarians abstain from funding the industry that wastes such ridiculous amounts of food proves the point of your post wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Although it's a good sentiment, if money weren't wasted on meat, it would likely be wasted elsewhere. I understand that it has the potential to help, but so do a number of other things. Also, it's not hard to explain because of the vegetarian's motives, but because it's embarrassing that we have the choice when they don't. Try telling a starving kid that you are helping him by eating your apple instead of a steak

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I disagree... Let us say a starving african youth is eating a steak. A vegetarian walks up and starts explaining why the kid should not continue eating the steak. The kid is not going to drop the steak and say he would rather starve than eat it... he more than likely would consider the vegetarian crazy for denying any type of food. And, I do agree with HakCynic about the food not going to the starving, because it wouldn't. Just like the dinners my parents told me to finish because of the 'starving children in africa'. It wouldn't matter if I threw it away or ate it, because no african would get it anyway. So, there is no way to say that food wouldn't end up rotting on a grocery store shelf if it didn't go to factory farms. There is no way consuming meat is the PRIMARY reason people in africa are starving.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What asshole is going to explain to a starving person why they shouldn't eat something? The OP's point, I assume, is that vegetarians are so damn picky about what they eat while there are kids starving in other countries. My argument is that vegetarians are picky because they refuse to support and industry that wastes large amounts of food. If anyone, vegetarians are the ones who have world hunger in mind. If I came across a starving child eating a steak, I'd think that was swell. However, the resources used to create that steak could feed many more people, and I'd be more content to see a village of well-fed individuals rather than one person. I realize that the resources used in meat production would not necessarily end up on the plates of starving people. I am arguing against the premise of the post, that vegetarians are just picky twats more concerned with animals than with humans.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

...Why would you be trying to explain vegetarianism to starving kids in Africa? Just curious.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Imagine trying to explain dieting, eating disorders and obesity to them... "So, erm, while you're starving here with no access to food, there are millions of people who are either gorging themselves or avoiding food as much as possible."

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yet the language barrier is not going to make explaining this difficult?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

OP could be from France and speaking of the French speaking countries.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think it'd be much easier to explain vegetarianism than to explain something like competitive eating, to be honest.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The comma, it burns!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Why do the children have to be African? There are starving white children y'know.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

And Africans can be white.

by Anonymous 11 years ago