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

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Animals were put on this earth for a reason. Food source! It's a known fact.

I think you may want to look up what "fact" means.

And stupid people like you were put on this world so we have someone to chase with a stick.

Do Vegans eat tofu turkeys on Thanksgiving?

Some do. My friend's mom is vegan and she makes a tofurkey for thanksgiving dinner. My friend isn't vegan but she says it actually tastes really great. :)

thejimler 9

In regards to how animals are raised, the small enclosures that birds are in are made that way because that is their preferred method of nesting, chicken coops and nests in the wild are in an enclosed space to hide from predators and to protect from the weather. If they were bad for the birds then farmers wouldn't use them because unhealthy livestock would result in poor quality meat and by-products. The real reason animal rights groups attack these methods of livestock production is to try and force farmers to use more expensive methods in an attempt to raise the costs of the end products, to drop consumer numbers and eventually ruin the business.

n530411351 9

#121 6 birds in 1 square foot of space is not natural. Chickens are debeaked to prevent them from pecking at each other due to stress. The conditions are bad for the birds, the animals are unhealthy, and farmers doe use them because it is more profitable to pump the birds full of antibiotics and stuff them in cages than let them have plenty of space outside.

#121 - Chickens may nest in small spaces, but they don't spend their whole lives laying/sitting on eggs. They need space to scratch for food. The conditions they are kept in are tiny cages where they can barely move for their WHOLE life, there's no sunshine, if a disease manages to get through all the antibiotics they're fed (overuse of antibiotics = bad) then it would spread quickly through all of the chickens, and as #127 said, the chickens get extremely stressed and start pecking each other and pulling out their feathers. Cages aren't bad for the birds my a***

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.

Mademoiselle_fml 34

Common sense? Is that a band?? /sarcasm (obviously)

I've occasionally confused the terms "mammal" and "animal," but I know that birds are animals. Maybe your friend did the same thing.

Eh. Birds are birds, fish are fish. 'Animals' is just what some people think anything that doesn't have feathers or swim gets classed as. What other general term would be usable that everyone will accept?

yeah you know when your faith in humanity is restored and you go on the internet for ten minutes and you're like "nope...the faith is gone"

The only time I've confused mammals and animals is when I was in honors biology at school. We were learning about animals and all the phyla. Since each animal phylum is so different, I would sometimes think of arthropods or birds or reptiles as not being animals, until I then realized, "Wait, what am I thinking?"

Growing up we raised free roaming chickens. More healthy for the chickens and they taste better.

You go OP! Im a vegetarian and animal rights activist as well. People just dont understand the cruelty that goes on in factory farms, fur farms, circuses, zoos, labs etc.

I dunno. Maybe birds are alien. I should ask one some day.

Actually "survival of the fittest" just means survival of the individuals with favourable phenotypes given the environmental conditions. The comment makes no sense because the expression does refer to intelligence (as well as physical ability, resistance to diseases, colour for camouflage, and thousands of other things).

Eating meat is like eating second hand vegetables. That being said, give me all your hand-me-downs please!

Aren't hand me down clothes people used then give to others? After people eat their food they shot it out, now why the hell would you want people's shit? Fetish or something?

I guess that wouldn't be the weirdest fetish.

Ohhhh this was physically painful to read... How can people be so stupid?