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darthspudius: It is cute on paper but. But if they're created by us, owned by us, we should do as we please with them. They are bred for a purpose and that purpose is what they should be used for. Looking after creatures in the wild is a totally different matter mind you. I respect wild life and those that do their best to conserve it. They just do not think practically. Choosing decisions with their hearts not their heads.
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Shadowstalker16: Its their decision to follow and if they feel better about knowing they contributed a little less to what they see as morally reprehensible, they're free to do it. People only get annoyed when they try to impose their opinions on suffering (which are subjective, or in some cases is actual cruelty) on other people's opinions (which are also subjective but they can hold it if they want to). Basically, they can believe what they want and non-vegans can as well but the bad rap veganism gets is when some people just go on a ''holier than thou'' attitude and tries to bend what is ultimately still their opiniopn and not law as the standard for everyone else.
Veganism is a cult, they way it is shoved down our throats in this country it is not possible to even remotely appreciate the idea.
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darthspudius: Veganism is a cult, they way it is shoved down our throats in this country it is not possible to even remotely appreciate the idea.
Then it shows that most people are using it as a separation tool to make themselves feel special rather than doing it for its intended purposes. Unfortunately all that can be done is to ignore them.
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darthspudius: Veganism is a cult, they way it is shoved down our throats in this country it is not possible to even remotely appreciate the idea.
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Shadowstalker16: Then it shows that most people are using it as a separation tool to make themselves feel special rather than doing it for its intended purposes. Unfortunately all that can be done is to ignore them.
Hopefully they calm down, the country has enough problems without putting tax on our bacon lol.
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Klumpen0815: I suggest using this thread instead if the urge to bash some people with other life-styles and moral values in this regard arises again:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/being_vegetarian
Ignored, as always.

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TARFU: Guinness changes 256 year-old recipe to appease vegans:

[url=]http://www.newser.com/story/215448/guinness-tweaks-256-year-old-recipe-to-appease-vegans.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=foxnews&utm_campaign=rss_health_rel[/url]
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Gnostic: The link does not works.

But if true why the vegans does not drink other type of drinks? Or appeal to have a vegan version of the drink instead of stopping the production of non vegan drinks entirely?

But some google show it is just some filter process they are changing, not the ingredients in the recipe for the drink, so not sure if it would change the taste of the drink.
I'm pretty sure that Guiness has the opinion, that it is not financially feasible to make an alternative version but didn't want to pass out on a vegetarian and vegan customer base either. Maybe the new method is more cost effective anyway and just needed some pre-financing they didn't want to do, who knows? Having a scapegoat for changing some kind of tradition is always nice though, isn't it?
256 years are nothing compared to the age of the German Reinheitsgebot which is vegan since 1516 (since 1487 on a local basis) and one could say, that Germany knows a bit about how to make proper beer.
Our big local juice producers changed their method of clearing orange, mango and cherry juice after people got to know, that it's not even vegetarian. If you want to blame someone, the evil vegans are not enough, you'll have to include all the vegetarians too.
Blaming logical business decisions on "ye religious zealots" is typical and sad.

The animal cruelty is an entirely different matter and can be judged better after seeing some real facilities or the documentary "Earthlings". My family had a small self-providing farm long ago and what happened there was too much for some of us, but nothing compared to what is happening large-scale.

This whole topic is different here in Europe.
Unlike in America, space around here is extremely expensive, that's why meat, milk and egg "producers" are only surviving with subsidies from the states and still cram the animals up in very little space while feeding them with penicillin as part of their regular food which in turn is creating penicillin resistant germs at an accelerated rate which is solved by (who would have though) a higher dosis in the next "meal". They would have been closed down in a truly free market long ago and without soy fields as the primary protein source for the animals it wouldn't even be possible with all this money from the state and the reduced VAT that comes on top of it, since most people here are not willing to pay a realistic amount of money for this stuff.
Cows milk, meat, cheese, butter and eggs have 7% VAT while juice, soy/rice/oat-milk have 19%, even water bottles have 19% VAT.
It's all sponsored because not cost efficient at all, even with bad animal treatment and I have to pay for this too.
I have no idea if the "producers" of animal products get all those privileges in the American market.
That's one of the many reasons, why a transition away from such products is happening in Europe but I guess people here feel better by just spreading misinformed hatred and feeling better about themselves just like your sjw enemies do.
Post edited November 05, 2015 by Klumpen0815
I'm sure McIntosh would be pleased by the random division and sweeping generalizations the sudden topic shift created. You know divide and conquer only works if you allow yourself to be divided, right?

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Klumpen0815: I suggest using this thread instead if the urge to bash some people with other life-styles and moral values in this regard arises again:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/being_vegetarian
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Klumpen0815: Ignored, as always.
If it makes you feel any better, that thread's one of the ones from 2014 that got archived, so it's not possible to post in there.
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227: I'm sure McIntosh would be pleased by the random division and sweeping generalizations the sudden topic shift created. You know divide and conquer only works if you allow yourself to be divided, right?
Oh yes he would and one of his hench(wo)men are surely monitoring this while having a blast with it.

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227: If it makes you feel any better, that thread's one of the ones from 2014 that got archived, so it's not possible to post in there.
I totally missed this fact, thanks for the hint. I won't create a new one though, someone else can get the blame, insults and rep-ercussions, I've had enough from the last one which was even gaming related.
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Klumpen0815: I totally missed this fact, thanks for the hint. I won't create a new one though, someone else can get the blame, insults and rep-ercussions, I've had enough from the last one which was even gaming related.
Hard to blame you; getting into discussions about things one's passionate about seems to be the quickest way of creating an unbearable conversation. Passion carries an emotional stake, the internet carries the preconceived notions of the masses, and the collision of the two is rarely a pretty sight.

Besides, I think we all have enough on our plate already, what with being misogynistic bins of toxic masculinity pouring over and horribly scarring the innocent. Or so I hear; I was recently going through some news and I followed some links to a Washington Post article that mentioned GG in the same way it's so often referred to in the narrative: evil men scaring innocent women because we can't share our toys. I wasn't even looking for GG material—this is something I stumbled onto one link deep into a recent news story. Seems to me the willingness of mainstream outlets to blindly parrot "the narrative" is the kind of thing we should be talking about before we start tearing into each other for dietary choices.
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227: Besides, I think we all have enough on our plate already, what with being misogynistic bins of toxic masculinity pouring over and horribly scarring the innocent.
I guess the reason why "animal abusers" or "carrion eaters" isn't part of the already heavily loaded narrative is, that most of the other side doesn't really give a damn about animal rights (or anyone else's rights apart from the own ones), especcially the "leaders". It's hip to go into some fancy and expensive Californian veggie restaurant for show and making pictures on Facebook/Instagram as it seems, but that's it.

We know by now why "child molesting pedos" isn't part of the narrative...
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Klumpen0815: We know by now why "child molesting pedos" isn't part of the narrative...
Hey that beautiful brave courageous smart intelligent funny 19-yo was just being a teenage edgelord ya know.........

Kojima dared to make a sexy character? Sexist misogynist perv who wants keep women out of gaming.
Butts doxxed her 8-yo cousin and posted her pics on a pedo IRC chat? She's just a teenage edgelord.
Post edited November 05, 2015 by Shadowstalker16
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hedwards: It goes both ways, but the vegans are definitely worse than the meat eaters in that regard.
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Klumpen0815: Having been through lots of dietary changes in the last 10 years and therefore having experienced all sides first hand I simply disagree.
Tolerance has nothing to do with that and although I've encountered more of the opposite than you describe, I don't generalize.
Omnivores, vegetarians, vegans and pescetarians alike tend to think bad about people who enslave, mutilate, rape, kill, etc... other animals depending on their reasons and priorities why they decided to avoid this or that (which more often than you think is about the own health on all sides) and the usuals tends to think bad about all veggies because they feel that their moral values are looked down upon. It's as simple and logical as that.
I'd be the last one trying to dissuade someone from going on a hunt for his stuff.

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hedwards: And fuck you
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Klumpen0815: How nice of you!

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hedwards: for even considering comparing this to being gay. It's not even remotely the same thing. One is a biological piece of who a person is and the other is a voluntary dietary choice
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Klumpen0815: Actually, a biologically deciding factor for bi- or homosexuality has never been proven. Although it really has been searched a lot to prove a point, only aspects making you tend somewhere a bit more have been found and this is the case in practically everything.
Both things are results of a very complex social development and therefore can be compared indeed although I did only compare the reactions to an "outing" and sadly you completely deflected this point with a nice "fuck you".
Besides that it's not always a voluntary choice at all, if you consider lactose intolerance, people with a heart condition, etc... or if you simply cannot eat something out of disgust in order not having to vomit from it, like raw mushrooms, raw meat, whatever.

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hedwards: that probably isn't even healthy in most cases.
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Klumpen0815: That's just like... your opinion, man.
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If you "gamergaters" want to prove, that you are not as narrow minded as "your average sjw", you'll have to do better. Be a shining example!
I can see the usuall mysogyny and anti-semitism and homophobia and other rascism hate speedh is alive and well here because corruption in game journalism.
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Bunglatron: I can see the usuall mysogyny and anti-semitism and homophobia and other rascism hate speedh is alive and well here because corruption in game journalism.
Questioning something = misogyny / racism / homophobia
Inquisition / 10 ; didn't get paid this time.

Also, why the fear of people speaking off topic? Ofc ''hate speech'' but really, behind the excuse, what detriment would you have?
Follow up on Anita's diversity hire who didn't go through a proper background check it seems : http://i.imgur.com/czeGAIB.png
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hedwards: 8<~~~

And fuck you for even considering comparing this to being gay. It's not even remotely the same thing. One is a biological piece of who a person is and the other is a voluntary dietary choice that probably isn't even healthy in most cases.
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noncompliantgame: It's teh other way around, no?
No, most vegans I've met are pretty unhealthy. The exceptions are ones that put a lot of effort into making up for the inadequacies of the diet. But, on the other hand, I have plenty of relatives that are in better health, but rarely eat vegetables.

The alleged negative health consequences of meat are mostly a matter of excessive consumption with inadequate exercise, but it's completely possible to survive without eating anything but animal products. Peoples of the far north would go months without access to anything but meat because it wasn't there and there wasn't any method of storing it anyways.

But, you have to eat pretty much the whole animal, not just the muscle meat. If you're not eating the internal organs, you're leaving most of the nutrition in the animal. And the animals themselves need to be eating proper food rather than the garbage that is generally fed to them.

Most of the theories like cholesterol and fat never had any actual scientific evidence backing them as particularly dangerous to the population at large. There's no correlation between cholesterol levels and cardiovascular disease.
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darthspudius: Veganism is a cult, they way it is shoved down our throats in this country it is not possible to even remotely appreciate the idea.
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Shadowstalker16: Then it shows that most people are using it as a separation tool to make themselves feel special rather than doing it for its intended purposes. Unfortunately all that can be done is to ignore them.
I'm not sure why you were modded down. Indian Gurus invented veganism and relatively recently. It's a religious practice and requires a great deal of practice and preparation as a lot of the foods you need to eat have to be specially prepared.
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hedwards: Indian Gurus invented veganism and relatively recently. It's a religious practice and requires a great deal of practice and preparation as a lot of the foods you need to eat have to be specially prepared.
Over 2500 years of Jainism.... relative recently... ha!
I wouldn't even know where to start with all the bullshit in these posts, but this one takes the cake.
Post edited November 06, 2015 by Klumpen0815
In other gamersgate news, I get this when going to the site:

"If you are the owner of this domain name, click here to verify"

Looks like it's gone.