Well that's a bit harsh. I assume you have clear indisputable evidence that I'm trolling? All I did was express an opinion on an opinion based thread. I certainly wouldn't want you to stop eating fish. I encourage people to eat animals of all kinds, especially the cute fuzzy ones!
But seriously, I'm not trying to troll you. I'm not a big animal rights guy by any means. Still, I don't see how pointing out that fish most likely can feel pain even without indisputable evidence is disrespectful. I suppose the BS part could be called disrespect. So let me change it from seems like BS to seems like it lacks merit.
Switch, I think you're confusing "feeling bad for the animals" and "animal rights". He wants to stop eating meat. Easier said than done. It's a process, not an ideology. Hoseman chooses fish. Of course, they feel pain.....but being yanked out of the ocean and dying pretty quickly is a lot different than, say, spending your life in tiny cage or rack or pen, where you can't even move, spending your whole life standing in your own shit.......it's just not comparable. "Cute and fuzzy" has nothing to do with it. (by the way, what's "cute and fuzzy" about a cow or a chicken? lol) I'll tell you what is proven: fish don't have great memories. By the time they're at one end of the tank, they've forgotten about the other. Like American politics! lol
If a person wants to ween themselves off of meat, for whatever reason, fish is usually the last stop. People stop eating meat for a variety of reasons and often a
mixture of reasons. I know plenty of people on alternative diets, and they all have their own story and their own reasons why. Animal rights is not even the most common, I hardly hear that at all. In fact I hear that more from people who want to stop eating meat, but can't/won't. I've never once had someone proselytize to me about animal rights as I'm about to eat a steak....I think this is yet another fiction people project on to others who aren't like themselves. Xenophobia! "What? They don't eat meat? They must be judging me!" I find most people are actually reticent and shy about talking about it; to them it's a private choice.
Hoseman wrote a very detailed comment, answering the initial thread question.....and it looks like people just cherrypicked the line so that they could have an "in"....."aha! gotcha!"
I say that because the rest of his comment is not an endorsement of going vegan! He wants - he needs - to continue to eat animal protein. He chooses fish as the "lesser of evils". It's not idealogy, it's practicality. You'd think people would give Hoseman credit for attempting to do something that they're all loudly professing they "can't" and "could never do", lol.
This thread reminds me of this thread:
http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?276489-BBW-Tickleing
The guy is interested in veganism and instead all you get is: "I eat meat I eat meat I eat meat", yeah we get it. Most of us do too. But then to pivot to "....and these people who don't eat meat are misinformed!" LOL! Actually, I think it's the other way around.
America has such a weight problem it's a national embarrassment. And meat prices are going to keep on going up in the coming century. So exploring different diets is maybe, just maybe, not such a bad thing. No one is coming for your double bacon cheeseburger deluxes, don't worry people. lol.
Get it, now?
