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[Doc]

The lives of meat eaters may not be changed by the existence of animal rights extremists, but the lives of everyone who works with lab animals is affected by it.  Here's just the first article that was easy to find.

Was going to say this, I've worked with people who had to close down their lab basically out of fear for their lives because of the actions of animal rights activists (this was in the UK for what it's worth so don't think you guys have the monopoly on crazy or anything). Of course there are stem cell researchers these days in the same position. So I'm agreeing with Ash that these two groups have the same sickness that is just manifesting in two different ways.

That said I also agree with Inev that, at this moment in time, in western civilisation, it's the right wing crazies that are most ready to threaten violence against those who disagree with them.
Actually I'll amend that slightly: mainstream social conservatives seem much happier to embrace their more violent extremists than mainstream liberals are and really that's a bigger problem. There will always be crazy people, it's the actions of the sane people towards them that is important and at the moment social conservatives have decided they need the people who think killing abortionists is a good idea to make up numbers.

[Ben-San]

Actually I'll amend that slightly: mainstream social conservatives seem much happier to embrace their more violent extremists than mainstream liberals are and really that's a bigger problem. There will always be crazy people, it's the actions of the sane people towards them that is important and at the moment social conservatives have decided they need the people who think killing abortionists is a good idea to make up numbers.

Quoted and canned for truth. I have met genuine violent-revolution type anarchists and socialists, and some of them have later been arrested for their violent crimes, but nobody in politics has decided they need to cater to the violently radical elements of the left and you don't have huge media outlets trying to say that their crimes were for the best even if they were technically premeditated murder. (As a bonus, at the same time the right wing is in the habit of trying to portray center-moderate policies like say a public option for health care or basic corporate oversight as left-wing communist extremism, and yells this lie loudly enough and often enough that people start believing it.)

Tangentially, archaeology is another field where you have violent action that would be classified as far-left; there are people who will, on the perceived behalf of the indigenous cultures being excavated, threaten and violently disrupt archaeological activity. I'm not talking about representatives of a given nation trying to get their sites protected (which is, in my opinion, a justifiable concern), but rather people acting supposedly on behalf of other or unknown societies being excavated to the point of threatened physical violence.

[smick]

Look man.  It'd be better for the both of us if you just fuck*ng left that neolithic pottery alone.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Look man.  It'd be better for the both of us if you just fuck*ng left that neolithic pottery alone.

Anyone caught handling shards of pottery will be ... ostracized.


linguists, historians and classics majors will snicker and no one else will get it

[Toaster]

*sigh*

I get really mad at animal rights vegans. I had a page-long rant about it, but I deleted it because it served no purpose other than to make me feel good. The short version: animal rights activists are morally bad.

Also I just came up with a joke where a couple won't go down on each other, and the punchline is that they're vegans.

[JorgeFabregas]

Don't be hating on vegans.

[Choop]

Anyone caught handling shards of pottery will be ... ostracized.
linguists, historians and classics majors will snicker and no one else will get it

in case you aren't and want to (see origin)

[smick]

*sigh*

I get really mad at animal rights vegans. I had a page-long rant about it, but I deleted it because it served no purpose other than to make me feel good. The short version: animal rights activists are morally bad.

Also I just came up with a joke where a couple won't go down on each other, and the punchline is that they're vegans.

It's ok.  I can say with some certainty that animal-rights vegans hate you even more.

[dejavroom]

My ex-girlfriend underwent a most horrid transformation in front of my very eyes. One day she quit eating anything that had a face, and from then on, lunch meant... squash/aubergine sandwiches, soups made from roots, and antagonistic japanese mushrooms. I don't mean to be a smartass, she cooked some stuff that was actually good (albeit always in the bland side of good), but I have to say that the concept of a squash sandwich to this day makes me confused and angry (also hungry, because I'm not eating that).

[greenkoolayd]

My ex-girlfriend underwent a most horrid transformation in front of my very eyes. One day she quit eating anything that had a face, and from then on, lunch meant... squash/aubergine sandwiches, soups made from roots, and antagonistic japanese mushrooms. I don't mean to be a smartass, she cooked some stuff that was actually good (albeit always in the bland side of good), but I have to say that the concept of a squash sandwich to this day makes me confused and angry (also hungry, because I'm not eating that).

putting a vegetable(by itself) in between 2 items that are made from a plant is on the opposite end of the food spectrum from:

[jaydub]

putting a vegetable(by itself) in between 2 items that are made from a plant is on the opposite end of the food spectrum from:

Yes, yes it is.  That looks Atkins Approved™.

[Carlos del Vaca]

putting a vegetable(by itself) in between 2 items that are made from a plant is on the opposite end of the food spectrum from:

That image is blocked for me.  You're not posting porn, are you?  Some sort of man-woman-man sandwich?

[CortJstr]

I think it's several layers of that gross new KFC "sandwich"

[theinevitable]

my roommate keeps cooking this thing that is Spaghetti Squash. Spaghetti doesn't come from squash, dude, it comes from wheat and stuff. Stop feeding me weird squash fibers and saying it's spaghetti.

although I guess it was good for my stomach to take a break from another day of:
take a meat
add really heavily spiced sauce, and lots of oil
put on rice.

[pmcd9]

although I guess it was good for my stomach to take a break from another day of:
take a meat
add really heavily spiced sauce, and lots of oil
put on rice.

Hmm, that sounds really good.  I'll have to whip some of that up for dinner.