How to insult a vegetarian

There sure are a lot of people talking about vegetarians, legal cases, how rude they are, their own form of fascism. The article is How Can You Insult A Vegetarian? Published on PJ Media and I was hoping for hints but the article is about the boy punished for bullying another boy in school about being vegetarian. According to ruling vegetarianism is a distinguishing characteristic and the behavior of the accused is characteristic of bullying.

No wonder they're so mean.

Joke. But sometimes the rare few here and there among the many more kind and gentle souls that mind their own business do not behave nicely toward others about their own diet choices and their diet philosophy.

I know of one fellow who must not be named for privacy reasons but his first name rhymes with blue, clue, due hue, hew, and huge. And he does fit the description of obnoxious stentorian vegetarian. He sniffs and turns his head to avert his nose and vocalizes, "Ewwww" when your bacon is passed between himself and you when your breakfasts arrive at the diner. He was expecting not to be near any meat when ten people sit down for breakfast? No, he's taking another chance to proselytize dramatically, emotionally, wax philosophically, be the obnoxious scold about an ordinary thing, marking himself extraordinary.

And this goes on for ten years. This is what we put up with just to be friends. There are countless other incidents. He hosts a grill lunch where people bring what they want to grill (!) Odd, right off the bat, but whatever. Go along just to be friends, just to be sociable. Then he complains to me privately because people dared to put meat on his grill. Now his vegetables touch the grill and get meat particles on it. I thought that was funny. He was gravely offended.

Then one night at a party that somebody else hosted something happened. This occurred at their highrise condominium. A nice and large place overlooking Cheesman Park. Oddly, again another pot-luck type deal. A few of us were assigned to bring something. See what we endure just to be friends, just to be sociable? Anyone else would cater or do it all themselves. But everyone in this group accepts that as normal and behaves similarly. They all do this pot-luck sort of thing that disperses effort and cost. Co-hosting is one thing, in their case they all do a more total share thing. So the vegetarian continually presents his difficulty this way. That night I brought rumaki. Vegetarian, you don't get any. Too bad. Because it's great. He'll have to look at other pot-lucky things instead. That's the luck of these pot lucky deals, the luck of the draw.

The guy who makes a HUGE deal of bacon but whose name must not be mentioned grabs a rumaki and plunks it in his mouth. I'm stunned. Nonplussed. I cannot believe what I just saw.

We argue. He takes another and plunks it in his mouth.

I tell him he's discredited. He tells me, "Look Chip, rules are made to be broken. Okay?" and grabs another rumaki and popped it in his mouth like popping a pill.

I believe, but I don't know, that the big tall HUGE guy who was vegetarian no longer is. That turned out to be a phase. A very long phase having to do with feeling guilty about butchering all those animals back then in his meat processing days.

Making rumaki is gross.

Make this stuff for a large party and you can be put off making rumaki for the next decade.

Chicken livers come in a small tub along with regular chicken parts. Enough to cater a large party. The livers are separated and trimmed of anything that's not smooth and cut into tiny pieces. Each rumaki has only a tiny square of chicken liver. One chicken liver can make more than six rumaki. Just enough for a toothpick to stab. Then the taste cloaked heavily with disguising flavors, aroma and texture to change by few hundred percent. They are mostly bacon, more water chestnut than liver, and additional brown sugar loaded onto the bacon. They are sweet and crunchy with the fat and flavor of bacon and they are irresistible even to long-term vegetarians sometimes. At least once. I have this on record. Admit or not, that HUGE flake flipped to omnivorous diet on these rumaki.

The bacon is blanched so fat is rendered. If too stiff then it will not roll. If too raw then the fat will be giggly and unpleasant. Water chestnuts provide crunch. Real water chestnuts (from Asian market) are 10X better and also 10X more difficult to manage than tinned. Maybe heavily limed up jícama can substitute or crunchy apple. Bacon is smeared with brown sugar, a water chestnut slice is placed in the middle, a small chunk of liver, wrapped and poked with a toothpick. Baked until bacon completes cooking and liver inside is done.

One time Dr. Fred ate one raw. The bacon is half cooked and looks attractive to some when the light is not bright. I hadn't yet put the tray in the oven when he grabbed one and ate it before I could stop him. Went like this: grab/plunk. "You ... might ... want ... to ... wait ... until ... those ... are ... baked." Hey, I tried to stop him.

Vegan protest steakhouse

Link to video

"Several protesters from a group identified as “Direct Action Everywhere Toronto” by the Huffington Post entered The Keg Mansion steakhouse in Toronto, Canada."

"To Stop Climate Change, We Must Genetically Engineer Humans"

"A lot of researchers are thinking about how to genetically engineer crops and food animals to help them withstand post-climate change heat and parched conditions. But what about genetically engineering humans to slow our constant carbon contributions?"

The first proposal we cover is night vision — the idea that we could genetically engineer humans to have more rods so we could better see at night, and thus reduce our dependence on electric lights. The problem here is that there are only so many spots for rods and cones in our eyeballs, and our particular balance of the two is a tradeoff. Humans are day creatures, so they have more cone cells. Animals like cats are night creatures, so they have more rods. So during the day, humans can actually see motion about 10 to 12 times better than a cat. And many experts think that cats don’t see the same number of colors we do, although they’re divided over whether cats see in mostly blues and grays, or whether they see more like dogs where everything is less saturated. So if we want night vision, we might have to compromise some of our day vision to get it.

Another modification that Liao proposed was an induced allergy to meat, to help people reduce their consumption of animals. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States 14.5% of all greenhouse gas pollution comes from livestock. So the idea here is to make people allergic to eating meat. The problem is that there’s no real way to control the severity of the allergy, and the two proteins that Liao talks about targeting (BSA and alpha-gal) are both found in all kinds of places like milk, eggs, dogs, cats and pork. People allergic to alpha-gal seem to be able to eat poultry and fish, but if they were to eat pork or lamb or beef the allergic reaction includes everything from hives to gastrointestinal upset, to anaphylactic shock. Not something most people would want to sign up for.

Next we talk about breeding people to be shorter, something Liao says could reduce our carbon footprint. Smaller people require less energy and use fewer resources, Liao argues. But selecting for height genetically would be a nightmare, according to the most recent paper that Maxmen found there are 697 genes involved in height. Since there’s not a good way to select for height genetically, another method Liao talks about in his paper is using treatments that cause babies to be born light — to have a low “birth weight.” But that comes with a set of very real dangers to the baby, and few mothers would opt to take that risk. Not to mention set their kid up for society’s bias against people (particularly men) who are shorter.

Via Rush Limbaugh radio show

"Treat meat eaters like smokers"

"Meat should be treated like tobacco with a public campaign to stop people eating it, Jeremy Corbyn's new vegan shadow farming minister has suggested."

Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, has irked the British farming industry with her veganism and vice presidency of the anti-hunting League Against Cruel Sports.

In an interview with Viva!life, a magazine for vegans, she admitted she was a "militant" when it came to clamping down on meat consumption.

She said: "I really believe that meat should be treated in exactly the same way as tobacco, with public campaigns to stop people eating it.

She said: "Too much milk is being produced and if you live by the market you have to risk dying by the market."

Tim Bonner, of the Countryside Alliance, said: "Kerry McCarthy’s views on meat eating and livestock farming are completely out of step with the vast majority of people.

"Her ideas are verging on the cranky. This appointment is only going to make it more difficult for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party to reconnect with rural Britain."

"Go Vegan, Get Your Water Bill Paid?"

"The water shutoffs in Detroit have gained attention from around the country — including PETA. The organization is offering to pay one month’s water bill for 10 Detroit residents."

"In return, those residents have to go vegan for a month."

Morrissy sees no difference between eating animals and pedophilia

But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to. Duh doodle duh doodle duh do dum dee dum.

Now when I talked to God I knew he'd understand
Said, "Listen to something great by the Smiths without that man."
Duh doodle duh doodle duh do dum dee dum.
Duh doodle duh doodle duh do so I did

I have the Smiths but I do not have this, the Draize Train. Wow. I'm downloading it. It's like real instruments! They really get going there.

The independent reporting on a Q&IA on Morrissy's fan site.

"Chicago, vegetarian capital of America (c. 1905)"

"Mainstream American vegetarianism, like feminism and folk-rock, seems pretty clearly a product of the late 60s and early 70s. And if you think that, Adam D. Shprintzen wants you to know that you're off by only a couple of centuries."

"That history comes back to life in Shprintzen's new book, The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement 1817-1921, just published by University of North Carolina Press, which shows how the presumed moral superiority of vegetarianism reflected the moral assumptions of each age and evolved with the times as different reasons to abstain from meat came to the fore."

Adam D. Shprintzen: "Vegetarianism starts out as this small religious reform group that imports itself to the United States from England, the Bible Christian Church. They come to the U.S. with this idea that religion can actually be understood through science. Which is sort of a remarkable idea through our modern eyes, but wasn't so strange at the time. Part of their ideology was the notion that vegetarianism—they didn't use that term at the time—but that abstaining from meat can sit at the center of a total reform ideology.* So meat is one way that the body kind of becomes overheated and overexcited and apt to make people act in improper ways. Whether it be violence, or holding slaves, or oppressing women."

Chicago reader dot com , Althouse*