2011-05-24 - Vegetarians Hate Animals

Those damn hippies who refuse to eat animal products because it’s not nice really hate animals. Now you might say that this is a lie and to you I say it isn’t and you’re wrong. Now I don’t mean the people who don’t eat meat for religious or medical reasons. Religious people are just crazy in general and medical reasons rather trump everything. No, I am talking about hippies, hippies who don’t like the livestock industry and have decided to protest it with a boycott. Those people really hate animals. If they don’t hate animals then they have a serious misunderstanding about animals and basic economics principles.

So the argument goes as such “Farms are mean to animals”, or something like that. I haven’t actually listened to any of their arguments because I think they are all silly but it seems to be something along those lines. Now my rebuttal to that is that it would be stupid for farms to be mean to animals. A farm is a business and businesses want to make money. You don’t make money by wasting time being cruel to your animals, especially when you get the most money out of your animals when they are big, fat and happy. Just think about it, if someone is hurting you will eating be the first thing on your mind? It is more likely you will be trying to escape or strike back and just generally being stressed out. Now as I understand it a stressed out animal doesn’t taste that good and neither will it produces a lot of meat. They will be especially losing money if it’s trying to break free and damaging itself and property in the process. Now since producing meat is what the farmer wants, it seems to me that being nice to their animals is in a farmers best interests. That way they are all big and meaty and he can sell them for lots of money.

Now there are some rather creepy factory farms, farms with hundreds of chickens in a row laying eggs with weird light cycles to cause them to overproduce Now as much as these are creepy they are not necessarily cruel. They still have to take care of their animals because their animals are what make them money. Now I am not a supporter of these kinds of farms because there are better ways to do things. That being said it doesn’t help to protest the entire industry. If you would never eat eggs then there is no profit to be lost by housing chickens in a manner you support. It’s much better to give your money to other companies, companies that are less creepy. It’s a supply and demand business; if you are not contributing to demand supply won’t care what you think. If you are contributing to a specific segment of demand supply will follow you. This is the generally problem with the whole vegetarian movement. If you’re not going to eat animal products then why should they bend to your ideals?

Now there’s a second stage to the livestock industry that also gets a lot of flack. I’m talking about the butchers and others that kill animals and take the bits that they want. Now the argument about these groups seems to be related to the way in which they kill the animals. Vegetarians seem to have the idea that they beat them to a pulp and then spit on them for added effect. Now again my rebuttal is that this is entirely stupid. You see time is money and property is money. Since you don’t want to waste time or property the best way to kill an animal is the quickest and least destructive way. This allows you to get at the bits you need as soon as possible without damaging any of those bits or any of your buildings and tools. Cows are large and when they are jerking around in pain from being beaten it is very likely that they could hurt someone or something which would cost the company money. Since the company wants to spend as little as possible and make as much as possible it simply makes sense to avoid this.

Now back to the real reason that vegetarians hate animals, or how they indirectly hate animals without knowing it. The thing is that vegetarians hate farmers and butchers because they feel that they are mistreating their animals. Now I’ve already talked about how misguided this is but for a moment let’s assume they are right and get rid of them. What happens to the animals? Most livestock animals have been domesticated for so many generations that they wouldn’t know how to survive in the wild. When was the last time you saw a wild cow? Domesticated animals don’t know how to care for themselves. They wouldn’t know how to find food and water because farmers always gave it to them. They wouldn’t know how to find shelter from the elements because farmers always gave to them. They wouldn’t know how to protect themselves from predators because farmers always did it for them. They wouldn’t know how to survive and subsequently wouldn’t. Good going vegetarians, I hope that you are happy now with all the pigs, cows and chickens of the world dead.

And another thing, what do they have against fish? As I understand the vegetarian lifestyle it’s okay to eat fish which makes no sense. A fish is an animal, its flesh is meat. Eating a fish is no different than eating a cow or a big. It’s still an animal that was killed and removed from its peaceful life so that you could eat it. I mean what the hell?