As you may or may not know Duff is an awesome dude, and we get along due to a mutual… I dont know what it is, we don’t agree on much, well alot of things we do, and others we don’t… Duffs awesome anyway.
Im not drunk or under any substance, and I realise the previous blurb of sorts kind of makes me seem like one, so I’ll start fresh, Duff’s updated Banality finally, The new look is good, in keeping with duff’s make it look like its from the swamp style, yet modern and easy to use.
Really, not on any substances…
Anyway even more so to the point right now, duff’s site has never needed to look great (although it does) because its a gushing fountain of great read’s, provided you take his slanted vegan views (I kid I kid) with a grain of salt, its bloody enjoyable, well written and thought out stuff.
One of my favourite read’s is the “Let’s be vegan” caveat lector he has going, mainly because alot of the arguments made are mine.
Its up to 4.3 now, and I suggest you go back and read all of them… great stuff.
The focus of 4.3 has been set
Shit, I may as well write Lets Be Vegan 4.3, focusing on the excuse that animals eat other animals so humans may as well do the same. Ignoring that animals do not have the heightened cognitive sensibilities humans do, nor do they farm animals or use tools to hunt and kill them
Two examples in nature of animals farming – using tools to gain nourishment.
1) Ant’s
Ant’s are known to farm aphids, protecting them on the plants they eat, and eating the honeydew that the aphids release from the terminations of their alimentary canals. This is a “mutualistic relationship”.
2) Chimpanzee’s
Wild chimps are known to use crude tool’s to hunt all manner of food, as well as gang hunting, where they chase and trap smaller primeapes (in the past these were considered to be a freak occurences, but as they’ve observed larger species of great ape’s more frequently hunting its become obvious that our genetic cousins are manly omnivorous, not vegan as Duff proclaims, wither its using a crude stick to drive into a termite or ant mound for a crawling popsicle, or throwing rocks and sticks are other creatures to drive them into a thought out trap you cannot deny that hunting to eat in itself is a natural occurrence.
Why aren’t our canines efficient? First of all let me state that in my opinion the argument that because our canine teeth aren’t efficient for striping raw meat off the bone is as pointless as the argument that because we have canine teeth, we absolutely have to eat meat.
Why aren’t our canines efficient? no it’s not a sign that we were put on this planet to strip bark from tree’s for nourishment, the simple answer is when was the last time you had to east raw meat?
Or saw a wild or indigenous man hunt an animal using his mouth?
Chances are even our now extinct and often forgotten cousins the Neanderthals had highly inefficient canine teeth, you of course have to remember that not all canines are used primarily to striping flesh from bone, we are creatures with the ability to harness all kinds of advanced tools.
Its more likely that our species feasted upon other parts of the animals they killed for nourishment, liver comes to mind – as something we still eat raw today.
Lets flip this argument on its head, alot of the veganist point of view is that hunting or eating meat which is farmed is un-natural and therefore wrong, do any vegan’s know what the common potato actually is?
Deadly Nightshade
I shit you not, when first found in South America, potato’s would kill most Europeans, but us humans being the un-natural world changing creatures we are managed to change plants and crops (GE Monotoruim backer’s cover your ear, eyes and go NAW NAW NAW really loud) we’ve been genetically engineering food for longer then any modern society wants to remember.
You want to talk about un-natural and therefore wrong, the most widely used carb part of the western dish today is the potato, the real “vegan elephant” that could.
I can go on, what happens if you eat a raw un-soaked kidney bean?..
And you want to tell me my eating of meat is un-natural? get bent you hypocritical poison eating hippie fucks, Deal with the fact that we are a highly advanced species who probibly never hunted using there canine’s, however more then likely still used them for digesting certain types of meat.
Deal with the fact that nothing you cram down your gizzard is going to be “natural, wholesome and right”, and wither its meat or vegetable, humans have changed it to be edible, end of the day we’re all un-natural and by your great logic therefore “wrong”.
Deal with the fact that the “healthiest possible diet” consists of both meat and vegetable, if your not eating meat to make a point your a fool.
Deal with the fact that the bulk of people do like to eat delicious succulent flesh off the lesser creatures of the world, we’re number one because we fucking made ourselves number one.
You enjoy your tasteless mounds of food the rest of us would only use as side’s, its just more for me
P.S – Duff, I love you
