Because they do so much

Thanksgiving isn't a racist holiday, nor is it celebrating racism. Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful to Christ for all we have. It was started by the Indians and Puritans who came together in peace to give thanks for their unity and their harvest.

Your idea comes off as racist in of itself, as if white people of that time were all racist and wanted to see the natives all slaughtered. That's wrong and it isn't true history.

Ridiculing and using violent opposition to promote an idea isn't going to win anyone over. Especially for something as disgusting as eating a tofu turkey.

Sorry if I'm posting a lot. I can't see my comments.

Well, you're violently opposed to meat so...

Do you think cows would roam freely if people didn't eat burgers and drink milk? And genocide refers to humans.

There's something called a false comparison. Would you rather eat a medium rare filet-mignon or chunks of grass?

Again, might does not equal right. The African American slaves weren’t able to undertake a war nor were the holocaust victims able to do that because they were oppressed. It’s our duty as vegans to speak up for the silenced victims. All these animals want is freedom; it’s not like they’re begging for suffrage or the right to own property.

Once wild bovine undertake a war to free their enslaved comrades, or even start lobbying for equal rights, I'll consider this argument.

You were right. For the grass comparison, I should have labeled my sarcasm, trying to show what a false comparison really looked like.

With the sewers comparison, I was making the argument that just because it's gross doesn't mean it's evil. Then you doubled down on my comparison instead of completely brushing it off. So maybe it's not totally false.

As for the sewers comparison, you said our [blank] has to go somewhere. Do you really think by the sheer force of your argument, millions of Americans will suddenly stop eating meat? Sorry, won't happen. So meat has to come from somewhere.

The meat issue is a lot more complicated than you realize. Your aversion to it is an understandable thought that animals have many of the same rights as humans. You may even feel a type of certain righteousness in arguing for your cause.

The truth is, most meat-eaters are not violently opposed to vegetarianism. Almost all meat-eaters would allow you to practice what you believe. But you have to allow us to practice what we believe, which includes that animals are not close to the same level as humans and that it's okay to eat them.

Also if you would lower yourself to read an article by an expert, you would find that there are many well-founded proofs that humans are omnivores. Clearly, there is not a consensus that humans are frugivores as your scientific explanation suggests.

https://www.vrg.org/nutshell/omni.htm

I"m so confused. wasn't the OP about Veterans?

Humans are omnivores, with a strong leaning towards eating meat.

On a chimpanzee diet, a person would starve to death in 16 weeks.

As for how yummy it tastes, nature doesn't go for tickling your tastebuds. "I'll take this tuber over an animal leg cooked over a fire" said no one ever.

lol

Low rated comments can be funny (like with Chosanwan parties), but it's hard to locate replies.

Anways, looking at another thread where he claims Feudalism is Communism and workers controlling the means of production is Anarcho-Capitalism, plus this eating out hen periods and the rest of his bs, yes, this guy is just trolling.
Or just more insane than Grind.

I was actually going to mention the same point with the hidden comments. It's kind of funny yet ultimately annoying.

I think you were right before. A little too serious to be trolling but perhaps you're right. Someone telling another person their medical advice is wrong because you source an article is pretty blatantly ridiculous haha

I'm verging (literally) on motion sickness scrolling up and down, ahaha.

Alternative ideas, misinformation, ignorance, etc, can only go so far as explantions for his muddled muck. To consistantly disagree with EVERY little thing anyone else says, other that the quip about oral on hens on which he even elaborated? Naah, just defies the odds a tad too much. Especially when it is ALL clearly wrong, no matter which angle anyone looks at it.

I'll be back later.

I’m not trying to be the center of attention, nor am I ridiculing anyone. Take a f**king joke!

“Your IQ is nowhere near 120 you stupid twat, and it’s decreasing each day you fail to provide the proper nutrients to your body.”
The test results speak louder than the emotional temper tantrum that you’re throwing because you’re afraid of the truth! If you’re gonna rely on the ridicule that you’re trying to use to defend your position while actually proving my point in the process, two can play at that game!

You should be able to tell just from my wordstock and argumentative strategy that I’m smart. Most people around me say that I’m smart without having any idea how high my IQ is.

I have all of the proper nutrients, and I’m extremely fit, despite having little time to exercise.

Yeah, not quite.

What in the world?!?! Did you do any research for yourself?

The "first Thanksgiving" was celebrated by 53 Puritans and 90 Natives, a racist meeting to show the minority who was boss (sarcasm). The pilgrims actually had a very good trading relationship with the natives for many years.

Where does speciesism show up in Thanksgiving? Like Caucasians and Native Americans are different species? In my opinion, that's much more racist than Thanksgiving.

About Classism, do you enjoy eating food? How dare you!!! Many people get only three bowls of unflavored rice a day, which is very hard to enjoy. Putting salt on your food is also extremely classist because most of the world has no seasoning of any kind.

Thanksgiving was established as a national holiday to give "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens" by Abraham Lincoln.

BTW Puritans aren't Catholics. Abraham Lincoln wasn't Catholic. I don't know what you read, but you might want to look for other sources

Welcome to Imgflip, Pete. Very nice first post.

“Do you think cows would roam freely if people didn’t eat burgers & drink milk?”

Vegan burgers and vegan milks are fine. Whether or not they’d roam freely is irrelevant, as extinction is a far better fate than eternal exploitation is. Animal agriculture also kills animals by being the largest contributor to species extinction.

“And genocide refers to humans.”

I bet back in the day, genocide referred exclusively to whites. In reality, the term simply refers to killing discriminately by the common affiliation shared by the lives in question.

Not a big fan of extinction. Not that there would be efforts to prevent that.

What? Exclusively to whites in what sense? No, genocide is exclusively referring to humans, regardless of how you attempt to change the definition. Or what color they are.

Wouldn't, I meant.

About the speciesism, just look it up for yourself. It has nothing to do with the Native Americans.

About the classism, my point is that Thanksgiving pressures the poor to be grateful.

And of course you have to mention Abraham Lincoln. Most yanks don’t know that he’s a Marxist, slaveowning tyrant in favor of Jim Crow laws.

About the religion, you’re right on that one. I actually just assumed that they’re Catholics.

I did make a mistake and assumed what the speciesism was about.

I would disagree with you that eating a specific game bird on a specific day is speciesist. After all, shouldn't eating burgers be speciesist because they are largely from cows? I'll leave it at that.

Yes, Abraham Lincoln was not above repute. He was opposed to abolition for a very long time. But my point was that he instituted Thanksgiving, not for Racist, Classist, or Speciesist motivations, but to (gasp) give thanks.

"pressur[ing] the poor to be grateful?" What an outrage! The poor should be absolutely discontent with their current lifestyle.

I believe being thankful stems from being content.

The contented poor might say
"yes, I would like it if I didn't have a broken window with not enough money to fix the window. I would like it If I could live for more than a month in advance. But I'm thankful we have food on the table, and that it tastes good."

If more people had that viewpoint, America would be a happier place.

"Flesh burgers" he calls them. That's hilarious.

I think it's just a random tradition that stuck with the holiday, like football. But I have never played football on Thanksgiving, and I had ham last year.

I guess it all depends on your viewpoint. I myself rarely eat turkey outside of Thanksgiving, and judging from your other comments, I would say that your rather against eating meat.

Abraham Lincoln may not be great, but he did institute Thanksgiving as a holiday. Because of that, I think his views are relevent on this issue.

Also, you seem prejudiced against the "yanks," which is a form of classism itself.

Moreover, you think that poor people "have nothing to be grateful for." Maybe there are people buried alive or in similar circumstances, but they would be a small percentage in America, which is where Thanksgiving is celebrated.

In an unrelated comment, you had a wishlist of holidays you would like, including "Marijuana pride." Are you pressuring people to smoke Marijuana where none is available?

Inconsistency strikes everyone.

Thanksgiving has nothing to do with forcing people to be thankful. It's a day when you can drop out of the rat race and enjoy what you have for a little while.

I already did plenty of research to come to my conclusions. It’s often the smartest people who have the most irregular political beliefs.

Do the research or let yourself get controlled. At least people in Dixieland know better!

Guy, everything you wing is ridiculous to the point that I would be tempted to think you're really a rather clever troll, in which case it would be kudos to you. But you're so earnest and humorless and so blah about it all you must be sincere.
How about YOU do some research, since nearly everything I've seen you post on whatever topic is just a pile of jumbled ignorance.

Whoops, looks like I had that wrong. I had heard there was also one in October, but upon looking, it appears that's in Europe, so that's not getting two months, that's still only getting one month, just a different month in different places.