Guest guest Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Yes, I am aware of his views on vegetarianism. The best I can say about this is that it is easy to rant about stuff you know little about. A lot like parenting - when you have no children, you have lots of opinions on how they should be raised; but once you are a parent, you look at that kind of advice with frustration and sometimes humor. He just doesn't know. As with a lot of things, it is best to take what rings true to you, and leave the rest. Donni - dave Friday, January 09, 2004 7:41 PM Dude, Where's Mike's Dignity? I just read most of Michael Moore's book, " Dude Where's my country " . Most of it I really enjoyed, and even though I already basically knew what he said, he filled in the details and it was fairly entertaining. That is, until I get to the chapter " How to talk to your conservative brother in law " . (which would be more aptly titled " How to sell out " ) In this chapter he suggests that the best way for liberal-minded inviduals to convince their moderate to conservative family and friends to vote Democrat in the next election is to first acknowledge the instances where liberals have been wrong. Some of it is silliness and I suppose it is meant to be taken with a grain of salt. (For example, " Yes, men and women are different. " Men commit by far more violent crimes and it is usually only women who seem to care about making beds. In other words, there is no politically significant between gender which should prevent women from having the same exact rights as men). But then Michael Moore babbles about how vegetarianism is bullshit. Vegetarianism is unhealthy, he says, humans need lots of protein and should be eating t-bones, not alfalfa sprouts. Then he devotes a paragraph to mocking the idea of animal rights. Now, I didn't expect Michael Moore to be a vegan or anything, but I thought he could at least tolerate our views. Why did he feel the need to rant about something he obviously knows nothing about? (Especially considering most of his readers are probably liberals, and thus more likely to be vegetarians). In the majority of his book he cites his sources but in this chapter he just spouts out his hedonistic opinions with no source. Of course it's hard to tell when he's being serious. But, I lost a lot of respect for him. And you think that he would know that the meat industry is one of the biggest recipients of corporate welfare. Ugh! Well, I suppose I should have seen this coming. In " The Big one " he complained how Mc Donald's put vegetables on his fish sandwich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 , Donni Irschick <dragonflywings@s...> wrote: > Yes, I am aware of his views on vegetarianism. The best I can say about this is that it is easy to rant about stuff you know little about. A lot like parenting - when you have no children, you have lots of opinions on how they should be raised; but once you are a parent, you look at that kind of advice with frustration and sometimes humor. He just doesn't know. As with a lot of things, it is best to take what rings true to you, and leave the rest. I would agree with this. I still like Mike for his politics, but I don't pay attention to his views on vegetarianism. He's from my home state of Michigan and is a hunter and a card-carrying member of the NRA too. I don't agree with those things, but honestly I have more respect for meat-eaters who can hunt, kill and butcher their own meat than I do for people who despise hunting, can't kill or butcher anything yet still buy and eat meat! (This is one of the reasons I had to become a vegetarian. It made no sense to me that I thought that meat was absolutely disgusting and that I could never kill or butcher anything or touch raw meat, but I could still eat it. It was a big contradiction to me!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 --- dave <dave4sale wrote: > > Why did [Michael Moore] feel the need to rant about something he > obviously knows > nothing about? He'll find out plenty about it, I'm sure, when he has his first heart attack. For someone who took the time to go on and on about how unhealthy being vegetarian is, all those burgers and other dead animal parts that he's been eating haven't exactly made him look like the picture of health. Hotjobs: Enter the " Signing Bonus " Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes./signingbonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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