The most ridiculous argument you've ever heard

Although it's not an "argument" I would love to shate it ... From my grandfather : "Vegeterian? What is this? Can we eat it?" ... Like, yeah!

"But what about plants, they are living organisms as well, with cells and all. How can you eat them?!!!"

and another 1: have u ever thought about poor little carrots taken away from their carrot family?

I've kinda gotten used to getting shit from people for being vegan, and normally just laugh it off (who cares what they think?) but one that really annoyed me was something my aunt said a few months ago.

She was staying with us, I came downstairs in the morning to see her eating a bowl of cereal. I was in a rush to get to class and just grabbed a piece of toast as we didn't have any fruit or hummus (my typical on the go breakfast for days when I have class). She started giving me shit, asking where the protein in my breakfast was, all while chowing down on her unhealthy cereal.

I get it.. toast really isn't the quintessential breakfast of champions but I make sure to eat healthy and get all I need. I had to make do with what I had available to me that morning... it happens to all of us, even non vegans/vegetarians.

The whole thing just struck me as really bitchy and hypocritical.

StopDropAndROFL said:
This isn't the most crazy argument ever but it's one I keep hearing
"I would go veg*an but I love x too much" where x is some animal product like cheese or leather or something
Yeah ok so I fucking love eggnog. You have no idea man if eggnog was a person I would marry it and make sweet love to it, that is how much I love eggnog. If I had to rate it out of 10 I would give it a 56. I went vegan during Christmas season while working at a grocery store, so I had to see it and be around it almost everyday for a month or more, and I was able to give that up. If I can do that then you can stop being selfish and give up the thing you like

I don't know if they sell this in your area, but you should try it if you happen to come across it during the holiday season:

http://silksoymilk.com/products/silk-seasonal/nog

I think it tastes better than regular eggnog :P

The most stupid one I've heard (from an ing. of agriculture) was:

"...but the pets would eat you too. Even a cow will eat you, when it's really hungry!"

oh, and the other one, I have to listen too quite often from people who are studing with me:

"Organic Agriculture is not possible without pets, especially without cows..."

Ok, the first one is worse than this, but there is more truth in it, than in the second one.
An this is why I'm doing research about vegan organic farming, because it is possible.

griesi86 said:
The most stupid one I've heard (from an ing. of agriculture) was:

"Organic Agriculture is not possible without pets, especially without cows..."

Ok, the first one is worse than this, but there is more truth in it, than in the second one.
An this is why I'm doing research about vegan organic farming, because it is possible. I have heard a similar argument, and while the accuracy of the statement is certainly beyond me I had a simple (and I believe effective) response to it: Granting that everything I was told was in fact accurate it still didn't mean that cows had to be killed. There was nothing in the argument that said the process of killing cows was necessary for soil revitalization (or whatever the point of it was) but rather only that cows needed to be alive. So I mentioned it would be an easy matter to continue on with a managable amount of cows (and other "needeed" animals) and that this would be a distinct matter from the act of killing them. The response was that it just wouldn't be economically feasable. I considered this a lame defense and the exchange stopped at this point.

I think that the best is that one about fish... "But, Vinicius, fish isn't meat" and I'm used to hear another: "But fish don't think" - I breathe and think: "Oh! Neither you... Neither you"

I've never heard an argument against vegetarianism that wasn't terrible.


right!

I've heard nearly every argument yet mentioned. (How sad.) So I won't repeat them, but I have one to add:
"But the animals want to be eaten." (It was not meant 100% seriously but still it was the point in a long discussion about vegetarianism where I just could resignate.)

My favourite argument is definitely:
"How do you know that the vegetables you eat feel no pain?"

I also enjoy hearing:
"If people didn't eat animals, they would already be extinguished, anyway."
"Fish isn't meat."
"And what about the poor people who don't have a choice like you do?"
"So what's wrong with milk? They don't kill cows, anyway". - To which I usually answer: "No, of course not. They just make a profit out of their suffering and, when they no longer can be exploited, are killed."

"One person can't make a difference."
Not with that thought in mind, no.