Why I am not a vegan

[Diana]

for dinner tonight i ate the pain, the trauma, the slain, the horror, the stress, the murder, the mess, the voiceless, the caged, the helpless, the raged, the captured, the meek, the terror, the reek, the blood, the gore...& it was medium-rare & it was delicious

Are you proud of what you did? Your statement seems to indicate pride.

i'm happy i got to taste something i really enjoy tasting - praise be to god from whom all blessings flow. one day i'll pay that cow back big-time, assuming this is possible

hopefully in the future i can eat something that tastes exactly like a steak but isn't one...star trek replicator thingy to synthesize any taste imaginable, that isn't actually food, from any planet...until then i'm ok with having meat about once a year

Praise be to god????? Are you kidding? If you're a Christian then I get your callousness. Everything seems to be okay in Christianity including violence of the most extreme nature to everything from animals to pregnant women and children, spelled out right there in the bible. If you're not a Christian, the statement is still ludicrous in this context.

And all this Matrix bull****. It's nothing but rationalization. As Monica said, are you going to torture and kill a child because nothing is real?

Is that air you're breathing? Yes. This existence is a part of reality. Pain is real. Slice off your leg and tell me it isn't.

I have officially lost my cool with so much utter BS, ignorance, and unkindness over the issue of eating animals. IT'S NOT NECESSARY. THE TORTURE AND CRUELTY OF ANIMALS IS NOT NECESSARY.

I'll give you one thing, you had the honesty to admit it's for TASTE. :@