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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 14 2008, 01:52 AM (1,180 Views) | |
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Dec 14 2008, 01:52 AM Post #1 |
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This popped up in some other research I was doing, and I thought I'd share... in case anyone wanted to have fun ranting and raving... Are you metrospiritual? |
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| Meowth | Dec 14 2008, 01:20 PM Post #2 |
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Maybe you want to say what it is as well. |
 
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Dec 14 2008, 06:39 PM Post #3 |
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There is an article in the link.. if you some how missed that. |
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| Rockman | Dec 14 2008, 09:34 PM Post #4 |
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Health is a big factor with all that. People are becoming more health conscious in an effort to turn back what we are causing for ourselves with cancer and other organ disabilities that are caused by the almighty "big mac". Granted, buying organic and spending money to lessen a carbon foot print is a huge money gobbler. There's money in it, like the end of the article speculates. And people are buying in on it. No, i'm far from metrospiritual. I love the taste of flame broiled goodness at burger king. I find animal rights activists annoying, and the people that shop at organic stores just overall smell terrible. But I know someone that fits comfortably in that category... |
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Dec 15 2008, 12:17 AM Post #5 |
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Oh hi, apparently I am a metrospiritual. We call that being an "Austinite" though. I love organics. I love fair trade. I love local produce and products. I love yoga/pilates. I love exercise. I love massages. I love well being and health. I love the environment. I love recycling. I love the outdoors. I don't like the idea of putting toxins into my body. I am a borderline vegetarian. I think more people should be health conscious and environmental conscious. |
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| Strawberry | Dec 15 2008, 10:27 AM Post #6 |
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I never realized we had all that in common. I do remember Kotetsu saying I reminded him of you before you joined, now that I think about it. I am just like that. I made all of my family and friends start recycling years ago, I am a hardcore vegetarian, I'm extremely protective of animals, and I love nature. Of course there is money involved with all of this, but there's money involved with anything, that doesn't take any credit off of "metrospiritualism" (by the way, thanks for the article, this is a new concept for me). And it gets on my nerves that you said you find animal rights activists annoying. Animals are tortured everyday just so people can get fat and whine about it. There is no one who can protect animals other than ourselves, they can't do it themselves. Humanity created a perfect world for humans, and humans only, everything is urbanized, filled with technology, the streets have traffic everyday, there's no space for animals anymore. I don't know how it is where you live, but here there are barely any dogs or cats walking on the streets, and it's not because they got a home, it is because they died. And that is ONE little example, animal rights activists are needed for a lot more than creating adoption centers for animals. Even for the quality of your food, since most of the times animals aren't killed and kept after being dead in the most hygieniec ways. |
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| Rockman | Dec 15 2008, 12:57 PM Post #7 |
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I think you misunderstood me again. There are a lot of people in this world that love and take care of their pets. Create animal shelters, work in shelters, volunteer to shelters, are vegetarians, and don't wear fur. That aren't Activists. ACTIVISTS, annoy me. People who think that Animal rights is a proper process, I admire. I treat animals with care and respect and dignity as well, but I'm not an activist. People who throw red paint on actors, or walk around the streets naked, or hold up signs in protest annoy me. In fact, most protesters annoy me. Edited by Rockman, Dec 15 2008, 12:58 PM.
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| Strawberry | Dec 15 2008, 01:22 PM Post #8 |
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I didn't misunderstand you, and of course I imagined you treated animals with dignity and respect. But in this growing capitalism we live in, where all the food must be fast, cheap, and in huge quantities to maximize the money as much as possible, there really isn't a better way to bring attention to animals rights other than being an activist. Activism is not the same as protesting, although protesting is a part of it. An activist is anybody who advocates or opposes a cause or an issue, and there are many ways to do it. And to be honest, I'm glad that there are people taking their pics naked in order to express themselves against the use of fur in clothing, when it comes to reach a mass audience, you have to create an impact or it isn't going to work. And this is an issue that has to be spread to a mass audience, it's important to bring awareness to animal violence if people really do want to stop it, and people have to create strategies to make that impact work. Usually visual strategies have a bigger impact, that's why most people probably still remember images of PETA videos they've seen. And when people are able to remember those images that have had an effect on them, you know you made them think or rethink about the issue, that's what really matters. It certainly can be annoying to a lot of people, but it's serving a bigger purpose and as far as I'm concerned, it is working (I've met a lot of people who started getting conscious about animal violence after seeing on tv some of the protests made by animal rights activists, in fact, most people only really get aware of this issue when they get confronted with some violent image or video, it seems like seeing those images/protests makes it easier to understand the violence is real, which is a lot more effective than learning it in school, for example). Edited by Strawberry, Dec 15 2008, 01:46 PM.
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| + Byakko | Dec 19 2008, 01:20 AM Post #9 |
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I'd like to think I am. I eat meat. (I make sure my mum buys free range eggs, before somebody says something*points at extremist in the corner*) I rarely eat healthy, although I'll help myself to apples, grapes, straberries, raspberries, banana's and pretty much any fruit. I've never worn fur, and I can quite truthfully say I never will. I think it's pretty disgusting really. I don't eat animals out of want, or because it tastes good. We get loads of protein through meats. And part of the average-scottish diet consists of fish (Might be because we live on an island?). In fact, my town is on the coast of Scotland, between two others that deal largely in fish. I'm not going to parade about naked to get my opinion and views across. Because, honestly, if somebody came up to me naked and started rambling on about Animal rights, I'd pretty much tell them to go away. I detest animal experimentation. Cilit Bang (Cleaning product) rubs the product into rabbit skin, resulting in the animal's suffering, painful death. I refuse, point blank, to EVER buy it. People have said "It's so that no human has to do it". If you make the product. You should make sure it works properly and be prepared to test it on yourself. That's my two cents. Nobody has to agree. |
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Dec 19 2008, 03:41 PM Post #10 |
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-I can't stand fruits, personal taste -I eat chicken or steak every day -I do sarcasm-REAL  training, as opposed to Yoga. I much prefer the relief of pumping iron than pumping my mind.-I eat real pasta, none of that organic -I pump gasoline every 2nd or 3rd day in my car -I can't stand vegans and their rants against animal cruelty I never quite understood the stance vegeterians took on animal cruelty. We are at the top of the food chain, it's our job to eat poultry and cattle. What difference should it make if the chickens are kept in a 1x3 cage? With such a human population, and such little land resources. We need to manage all the chickens we can at the best economical expense. No metrospirit Edited by .Punxx, Dec 19 2008, 03:41 PM.
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| Meowth | Dec 19 2008, 03:45 PM Post #11 |
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Punxx, you're an idiot. Would you like to live your life in a cage? I wouldn't think so, so why should animals be kept captive in cages? I'm not a vegiterian but I'm not going to eat an animal that's been kept in poor conditions. You do know that the meat tastes better if they've lead a healthier life right. Obviously talking about crulty won't bother you Punxx. |
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| * Mitas | Dec 19 2008, 04:03 PM Post #12 |
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I eat meat, but I respect and understand those that don't. I am completely against keeping animals in cages and disgsting conditions and basically treating them in an inhumane way. However, I don't agree with those that don't eat meat because it's cruel to the animal. Why, if we have let them lead a healthy life, should we not eat those below is in the food chain? Obviously we are different to other animals, more advance, but I don't like people trying to make me feel small for eating meat. Other meat eating animals would eat us if they had the chance, so why is it wrong for us to eat them? |
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| Strawberry | Dec 19 2008, 06:50 PM Post #13 |
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I'll put it simple. You are no better than a chicken, both you and a chicken have the same right of being in this world and being treated with justice. And I'd recommend you to get out of your box and try to see things without being stuck to that egocentrism, or else you'll stay blind for the rest of your life.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with eating other animals. What's wrong is the way they're killed before you can eat them. What made me become a vegetarian was that at a certain time of my life I got invaded by a strong sense of hyprocisy, after realizing that by eating meat, I was contributing to this whole torture machine that I was so deeply against of. I know when people are eating, they're not really thinking that what they have in front of them was once an animal who probably got tortured before being that delicious piece of meat on their dish... but it was. I know I can't change this alone, people say it wouldn't make a difference if they also became vegetarians. I'm still unsure if it would or not, but I know for sure that continuing eating meat WILL DEFINITELY NOT make that difference, and at least I know I'm not a part of something I hate, something that is completely immoral and violates all of my principles. I don't tell my experience to make you feel small, I tell it because I used to eat meat and one day I opened my eyes to what really goes on, and I said no, not anymore. It's up to everybody to make their own choice. Edited by Strawberry, Dec 19 2008, 07:00 PM.
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| + Byakko | Dec 19 2008, 07:12 PM Post #14 |
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What if Chickens were "top of the food chain"? What if it was you in a 1x3 cage? Then killed once you could no longer produce food any other way. What if Cows were top? What if it was you who was milked every day. And then killed because some annoying person wanted a nice large piece of steak. I believe that Human's are not the smartest life on this planet. Maybe not talking dogs or intellectual whales or stuff that you see in the movies. But I think there is some form of life more intelligent than any human. Humans are not superior to any animal. Under any circumstances. Animals only eat other animals out of neccessity. Many people (Including myself on more than one occasion) just eat animals because "They feel like it". I'm fine with eating meat. I really am. I'm not fine with it if the only light that little chicken sees is the one in the family oven. I'm not fine with it if that chicken is made to spew out (Metaphorically of course) 8 eggs a day. Or whatever the hell unreasonable number of eggs to lay is for a chicken. I'm not fine with it if a cow is force fed, day after day after day so we can get more meat from it. Put yourself in the animals shoes. |
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| * Mitas | Dec 19 2008, 11:03 PM Post #15 |
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Of course we are the most intelligent life form on this planet. I mean for one, there is no other animal that has the choice to either eat another animal or protest against the way animals are treated in order for us to eat that animal? The only reason you are able to question the way animals are treated is because you, as a human, are intellignet enough to have an opinion on something and feel that it is either right or wrong. |
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