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CodeWraith wrote: Not quite. As a child you learn from your parents what to eat and what not. You will be very cautious about eating anything that does not fit into the picture you have been taught. This does not only apply to eating meat.
Not quite 'back at you': I wasn't talking about caution. I was talking about disgust. The concept of killing and tearing apart another creature is not an extension - it is a chasm.
CodeWraith wrote: but without a proper source of some animal fats or proteins you are in trouble.
The protein requirement - well I refer you to my initial post. The majority of my sons body (muscle) mass (six feet plus) could be rightly attributed to Morningstar Farm products - soy protein. And gluten. No one cooks eggs in my house - period, but that's not dietary maxim, but rather based on a strong reaction to the smell. We don't eat fish. That's a weird leftover from Catholicism's no-meat Friday thing.
Design? Then I suggest you repair to my previous post. Can and should are not identical. You can kill your next door neighbor so you can take his stapler - but that doesn't mean you should. But, you can. Similarly, you're designed to reproduce - so why not copulate with every female that attracts your attention . . . whether they want to or not? Hence, one can easily argued and defend the concept that a sentient being controls their actions within their abilities.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: However, you may as well eat the cat, too.
Yes and no - my parents ate cat, during WW2 - joys of living in an occupied country, skinned cat looks just like a rabbit - not that they wanted to eat cat, they just needed to eat and needed whatever little iron/protein they could get. half a cats leg and rotten tulip bulbs - yay! not!.
It's actually proven not healthy to eat other meat eaters - crap filters up the food chain (look up why eating too much swordfish is not recommended). And yes, pigs are omnivores but the ones most of us eat have a controlled diet - not so much cats: they eat vermin (crap eaters), insects including cockroaches and flies (crap eaters), lizards (eaters of crap eaters) ...
Case in point: mad cow disease / scrapie -> CJD in humans - came from feeding farm animals (herbivores at that) bits of ground up other animals. Never was going to go very well.
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If I wanted to be a bit sinister, I might point out to you that your description of why one shouldn't eat carnivores is perhaps a good reason not to be one, yourself.
But, I was actually somewhat serious: people gag and stare if you suggest eating dogs or cats - but what the f***'s the difference, aside from size, vs. the other creatures they eat.
OK - suppose, like the piggies, the cats and dogs were raised on 'clean' food, commercially. Would you then find them tempting morsels? If not, then consider 'why not', and what does that mean?
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Mostly cannot disagree with you, but eating herbivores is a short chain (grass cow human) and applies to most wild game (grass bambi human), but not so much once you add an unknown number of carnivores in between.
Anything commercially raised, sure (but cat's have to eat meat - so not cost effective: to guarantee clean meat = feed would be directly fit for humans to eat anyway, but dogs can go without meat - beans ect) - of course properly 'commercially raised' - as in western country standards [that's another topic though].
So yes, anything properly raised is fair game, and on the 'eeew' thing: as you know (and as discussed before) mainland Europeans have no issues eating horse - the British and their offspring colonies (Australia. NZ, Canada, USA and Europeanised Asia/Africa) think horse is bad.
Why? Horses are just skinny cows that give less milk and run faster.
BTW, I liked your other reply about the vegetarian [choice] vs must-eat-meat myth, 100% spot on there.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: and bacon bits
Rather cruel to take a perfectly good strip of bacon and make "bits" out of it.
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Today is also Taco Day in the US, promoted by Taco Bell. That's a curious thing to me, as nothing Taco Bell makes remotely resembles a taco.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Justice for the chicken and bacon! 
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... when you hover over my icon it says 'professional'.
It is of course highly accurate, I am always entirely professional in every way. Anyone who knows me can vouch for that! 
But what did I do to get it recognised by this esteemed site? 
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Filled out your "Professional Profile" in "My Settings" - that upgrades you from "pleb" to "pro"
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Who knew that it was so easy to be a 'professional'? 
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In some inner city neighborhoods, all you need to do to become a professional is to where fishnets, spiked heels, and a very very short skirt. (Why does my mind always return to the gutter*?)
*pun intended
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Why does my mind always return to the gutter?
Did it ever leave?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Good point. Fortunately, I've learned to embrace the vision(s).
Or, as I posted on my webpage: SMUT - the stuff that dreams are made of.
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QuotingParaphrasing Shakespeare eh? Some kind of arty intellectual are you? 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Just an the observer.
Sometimes, all you really need are some better bad habits. - August 24 2016 8:30 AM
The ultimate placebo effect is self-deception. - July 29 2016 12:57 PM
and, to cheer you up,
You may rest assured that in the fullness of time most of your greatest fears will be realized. - March 3 2016, 7:34 AM
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W∴ Balboos wrote: fishnets, spiked heels, and a very very short skirt
So I'm a professional twice over then! 
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I haven't seen you here in a long time, but I'm glad to see you back as an upgraded, new and improved, "professional" member. I tell all my friends that I knew her when she was just a "member." It makes a fellow proud... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I haven't seen you here in a long time
Just passing through, but nice to see you are still here, amusing and entertaining the masses. 
Roger Wright wrote: back as an upgraded, new and improved
Now that I could do with! 
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PS your fashion sense hasn't improved!
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I've never been a fashion victim!
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:spits coffee out over monitor: ... what about the blue John Lennon specs?
You do know that dogs should never choose round lenses!
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Are you saying those are fashionable? Damn. What did I do to deserve that?
Oh, well - I'll just wait until next week when the hipsters are wearing Lentil Framed Retro-Aviators or something...
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I think he misses the 60/70ies
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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When his computer was made of valves and his programs were in punched tape?
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Cards, please. Punched cards. Paper (and Mylar for important stuff) Tape was such an improvement when it came out. You no longer needed wheels to carry your apps about...
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