By revan546 - 26/04/2013 13:23 - United States - Hillsborough

Today, while he was eating chicken, one of my friends asked me why I'm a vegetarian. I responded that I believe in animal rights and don't like the conditions the animals are forced to live in. He looked at me incredulously before explaining that "chickens aren't animals, they're birds." FML
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revan546 24

Hi guys, OP here. Yeah I've been a vegetarian for a few years and my friend finally decided to call me out on it. I think i died a little inside when i heard it haha. He eventually did admit that he was wrong and we're still friends and whatnot. Common sense isn't so common nowadays though is it.

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spazz666 18

This friends, is why us vegetarians have a bad reputation for acting like we're better than people.

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collegedream121 8

I think it's stupid to be a vegetarian over animal rights, the animals will die anyways.

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french_canadien 17

Its 'stupid to be a vegetarian over animal rights'? "The animals would die anyway"? Okay so back in the day when there were slaves it would have been stupid to oppose slavery because people would have slaves anyway right?

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Pyapi 20

Why bother with any type of freedom for humans? Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, human rights, etc? We're all just going to die anyway, right? Might as well just let ourselves get abused, controlled, and manipulated by someone else. Seriously? I think it's perfectly valid to give up eating meat for animal rights. I'm no vegetarian, but I understand the logic.

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fl0fl0_fml 13

#95: I read your comment several times, and tried VERY hard to understand how you could relate #84's comment to your slavery example, and I couldn't, because death is the inevitable end of life, while slavery can be avoided (precisely by fighting against it), so I really don't get your point. But as English is not by mother tongue, maybe I got it wrong... so if someone has an explanation, please help me!

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CharresBarkrey 15

I think a better example would have been 'why try to cure cancer if we're all going to die anyway?' It's to prolong and better the life of the person. Which is what vegetarians are hoping to do with animals.

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Psycho_Babydoll 26

Humans will die anyway too, should we all be cannibals?

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revan546 24

Yes and its okay to murder people because people will die anyway

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wlddog 14

I have always enjoyed deep fried alien birds on my vegan diet. You are what you eat people. That is why I only eat animals that only eat grass. Those animals are just delicious grass, therefor I am eating just grass. Then when I die, I will become food for the grass. Its the circle of life. Or is that the circle of the grasses life?

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GRgoldfish 19

now before the whole world starts to hate me, I just want to say that I really respect your path to be a vegetarian. now I just wanted you too know that most places that sell meat will buy cooped up animals but whole foods actually sells all free range animals. anything from beef to fish, it wasn't caged. good luck with your future endeavors OP.

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Miki101 18

...... Idiots, you never know who is one.

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martinfml 8

I understand why you're being a vegetarian and the fact that you don't like the life animals live (I'm with you on that.), but you have to accept the fact that just because you don't eat meat everybody else will stop eating meat. Life is cruel. Oh, and you have a stupid friend.

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Isa_fml 20

"but you have to accept the fact that just because you don't eat meat everybody else will stop eating meat." Where on earth did OP say that they DON'T? They just stated their own personal reasons for choosing not to eat meat. Mind your own business.

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Benchyface 11

In the past years the meat consumption in the US has decreased by 12%, mostly because of vegans/vegetarians. We do make a difference.

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gracehi 31

59, I don't want to start a debate here, but I just don't think ancient alien theorists's logic makes sense. I mean, just because we find evidence that ancient civilizations may have had far more advanced technology than we previously realized, doesn't necessarily mean that aliens gave them that technology. Why couldn't they have just been really smart? And then when those societies fell, their technology was lost. That's what happened with the fall of Rome. Why not the Egyptians and the Mayans too? I know this discussion doesn't have anything to do with the FML, but I thought I'd just throw in my two cents.

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pwnman 33

...Which is an animal.

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