PETA Recap/Summary

[garnet]

Originally Posted by Elspode

I'm offering this here as a service to Cellar members who were engaged in some semi-vigorous debate with a new member who claimed to be an employee of PETA. All statements are paraphrased and summarized to save time and space:

Garnet - Eating meat is bad, don't do it.
Most Everyone Else - We like meat, leave us alone.

Patrick,

I was disappointed by your post. Given the posts above, I wouldn't exactly say "most everyone else" is 100% OK with meat consumption. If you have doubts as to my "claim" of employment, I'd be happy to send you my name, work phone number and email address at work in a private message. Thanks.

[glatt]

Garnet,
My reasons for being concerned about beef are purely selfish ones. I don't want to get sick. I couldn't care less about the ethics of killing a cow and eating it.

[garnet]

Originally Posted by glatt

Garnet,
My reasons for being concerned about beef are purely selfish ones. I don't want to get sick. I couldn't care less about the ethics of killing a cow and eating it.

All I said is that not everyone is 100% OK about eating meat. Did I mention any reasons why? No. Please go back and read my post.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by garnet

Patrick,

I was disappointed by your post. Given the posts above, I wouldn't exactly say "most everyone else" is 100% OK with meat consumption. If you have doubts as to my "claim" of employment, I'd be happy to send you my name, work phone number and email address at work in a private message. Thanks.

While I can understand your disappointment, it was actually a joke, and I stand by my statement that 'most' people here are meat eaters.

As to your employment with PETA, well, it was just a claim on your part, but I did not have (nor am I now interested in) proof of that claim, and so I stand by my statement that the term 'claim' was technically accurate.

As to the "100%" figure, I believe that I did not use it, and again refer to my characterization of "most everyone else".

I will now return us to our regularly scheduled meat eating vs. non-meat eating debate, starting with a new thread which will contain a poll vis a vis the consumption of meat vs. the non-consumption of meat so that we will have a more accurate demographic upon which to base future gross generalizations.