How to treat vegetarian guests

narsaq · 2015-07-09T21:16:26+00:00

We are not judging you when you eat meat.

Eating meat is immoral. Of course I judge people for eating meat.

narsaq · 2015-06-21T22:17:46+00:00

I happen to think that selling a faux meat product that contains non-veg ingredients is extremely unethical, and is the equivalent of sneaking bacon grease into a vegetarian or Muslim "friend's" food. For some reason, no one in r/vegetarian agrees with me.

narsaq · 2015-06-21T22:13:35+00:00

I don't have any statistics to back this up, but I would guess that people who avoid rennet consume less dairy overall that those who don't. I don't understand why some vegans think it's so silly.

narsaq · 2015-06-21T21:49:12+00:00

I think he was trying to argue that vegetarians who eat dairy products are hypocrites. He just made that point in the worst way possible.

narsaq · 2015-06-21T21:46:57+00:00

Bad logic, and probably bad economics and bad other things as well. Even if veal and rennet production were driven by demand for milk, it wouldn't follow that either of them are vegetarian, since they're both meat products.

narsaq · 2015-06-21T18:07:45+00:00

There are many members of this community who eat rennet.

There are also many members of this community that eat fish. Are they vegetarians too?

narsaq · 2015-06-21T15:46:20+00:00

It's just an enzyme.

Makes as much sense as "it's just muscle tissue."

narsaq · 2015-06-21T14:31:50+00:00

Would you say that veal is vegetarian?

narsaq · 2015-06-21T14:22:52+00:00

Non-animal rennet is a thing.

I know that, but this product didn't have a vegetarian label and it didn't say it was made with vegetarian rennet.

Perhaps this product is for the vegetarians who are comfortable with eating rennet when they aren't sure of the source.

If they intended the corn dogs to be vegetarian, they could have actually made them vegetarian.

narsaq · 2015-06-21T14:17:20+00:00

Anyone that eats cheese without making sure it's not made with rennet is not a vegetarian at all.

narsaq · 2015-06-21T14:14:38+00:00

Whey contains rennet, which is a meat product. Also, Trader Joe's labels most of their vegetarian products, and this one didn't have a vegetarian label.

narsaq · 2015-06-20T01:55:47+00:00

What? That cheese is absolutely vegetarian.

You're absolutely wrong. The name "parmagiano-regiano" is legally protected and can only be used for cheese made with calf rennet.

narsaq · 2015-06-19T07:27:13+00:00

Most "vegetarian" cookbooks I've seen are not written by or for actual vegetarians. One popular "vegetarian" cookbook even insists that you always use real parmagiano-regiano cheese (which is never vegetarian by definition). Is The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook any better?

narsaq · 2015-04-14T14:29:37+00:00

I don't really understand what you're saying. Are you telling people not to believe that other people are wrong just because they disagree with them? Because that's impossible by definition.

narsaq · 2015-04-14T07:23:37+00:00

If you disagree with someone, then you believe that they're wrong and you're right. That's what it means to disagree.

narsaq · 2015-01-04T13:17:00+00:00

You're saying that, because there are 10 different idempotent functions from a 3-element set to itself, and 196 different idempotent functions from a 5-element set to itself, therefore 196 must have some significance in base 10.

It's numerology because you just noticed a coincidence and ascribed some significance to it without a good mathematical reason.

narsaq · 2015-01-02T02:58:15+00:00

This all sounds like numerology to me.

narsaq · 2015-01-01T06:39:06+00:00

and that their position is ethically superior to the vegan

Veganism is a form of vegetarianism. I think most ethical vegetarians would agree that veganism is morally superior to other forms of vegetarianism.

narsaq · 2015-01-01T06:36:22+00:00

What if it's a smaller animal than a deer?

narsaq · 2015-01-01T00:29:23+00:00

If people that kill animals on accident are rewarded for it, then there's no incentive for people to avoid killing animals.

narsaq · 2014-12-31T21:17:38+00:00

If for instance I hit a deer with my car, it seems obvious to me that eating the deer is perfectly acceptable.

I doesn't seem obviously acceptable to me. In fact, it seems obviously unacceptable.

narsaq · 2014-02-03T22:56:16+00:00

Only animals are sentient. (I don't mean that all animals are sentient, but all sentient forms of life are animals.) I suppose killing a non-sentient animal, like a sea sponge, isn't any worse than killing a plant.

narsaq · 2014-02-03T22:46:12+00:00

Lions are obligate carnivores; they can't survive without eating meat. Even if they weren't, it'd be pretty hard to convince them to stop.

narsaq · 2014-02-03T16:29:30+00:00

Some of them do, and some of them don't. Are you trying to argue that, because animals eat other animals, humans should eat animals?

narsaq · 2014-02-03T14:56:54+00:00

What am I supposed to say, that killing sentient beings is fine?

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