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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

kentauros

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13. That's pretty much the normal reaction

Reply to villager (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 02:10 AM

Aug 2015

any time vegetarianism or veganism is brought up in GD.

I need to remember the next time I see such a thread to point out to those steak-lovers that their meat is either flavorless or mostly so. It has to be marinated, basted, sauced, and or otherwise processed to make it flavorful. And the majority of those added flavors come from plants (and sometimes fungus.)

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Wow -- posted video link on saving water by giving up a single hamburger getting nasty blowback [View all] villager Aug 2015 OP

This is the amount of water on Earth, in graphic form for the ignorant crowd I am sorry your post Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #1

Thanks, Fred. Is that all the *fresh* water on Earth? villager Aug 2015 #2

Ocean water, atmospheric and trapped underground fresh land water and the tiny, tiny ball is fresh useable water. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #3

Good infographic, Fred. Amazing how many even on a "progressive" site are so willing... villager Aug 2015 #5

Folks get fooled by surface water....an ocean 4 miles deep is barely a scratch in the surface, and Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #7

We are all barely a wisp, really.... villager Aug 2015 #9

I am always aghast handmade34 Aug 2015 #4

Talk about "Paulites!" This "Underground" is full of 'em on certain subjects... villager Aug 2015 #6

L I T E R A L L Y tblue Aug 2015 #15

The "I got mine, you get yours" attitude is not one of any progressive or liberal I know. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #8

Not coincidentally, there seemed to be some Gungeon posters who'd drifted over... villager Aug 2015 #10

Really? I will take a peek....I have around 20 on Full Ignore...for a reason. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #11

I hear ya, Fred. villager Aug 2015 #12

That's pretty much the normal reaction kentauros Aug 2015 #13

Been there. People are adamant about MEAT. tblue Aug 2015 #14

man, it wasn't really about *giving up* meat, just about how much water a single burger uses... villager Aug 2015 #16