Do angry vegans turn you against going vegan?

[NoXion]

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Not just invertebrates, but also vermin with more developed nervous systems: Protecting grain from mice and rat threats

 

[MrSpikey]

First this, then next people will start saying that avocados taste like nothing and that if sourdough was actually any good we wouldn't have invented yeast.

Not many people realize that sourdough is actually made using yeast. I think it's a cultural thing.

 

[hash tag]

This is ridiculous PETA demands village of Wool changes it's name because it 'promotes cruelty'

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

This is ridiculous PETA demands village of Wool changes it's name because it 'promotes cruelty'

Let’s be fair though, PETA being fucking ridiculous is hardly news

 

[8ball]

I live in a town called Beeston.
Expecting to receive their demands that we rename it to "Slaver's Hill".

 

[hash tag]

Beeston? Surely Notts?

 

[8ball]

Beeston? Surely Notts?

Indeedy.

 

[NoXion]

PETA are fuckwits and hypocrites who are not above making use of pseudoscience or sleazy sexuality to make their point. If I were a vegan I'd want them to shut the fuck up and disappear already.

 

[ddraig]

Peta are indeed dickheads and facepalmy

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Beer in Devon, think of the bugs killed to harvest the hops should be renamed booze-slaughter

 

[Yossarian]

"How about you just lose the S and become Upper and Lower Laughter?"

 

[Saul Goodman]

Peta are indeed dickheads and facepalmy

As opposed to the majority of vegans, who aren't dickheads at all and never warrant a fucking massive facepalm.

 

[ddraig]

As opposed to the majority of vegans, who aren't dickheads at all and never warrant a fucking massive facepalm.

well done!

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

As opposed to the majority of vegans, who aren't dickheads at all and never warrant a fucking massive facepalm.

Nah I know heaps that are sound. But the more than the odd evangelical too. I mean it’s a bit stifling when you revisit old haunts in Glasgow and they’ve all gone vegan but the grub they sell is great!

 

[Raheem]

This is ridiculous PETA demands village of Wool changes it's name because it 'promotes cruelty'

I've stayed there, and before they think about changing their name they need to think about bus rides that cost less than a meal in a restaurant. And also pavements.

 

[gentlegreen]

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"How about you just lose the S and become Upper and Lower Laughter?"

The name of the village derives form the Old English term "slough" meaning "wet land". The manor of Upper Slaughter is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086; the Slaughter family acquired it in the late 12th century.

 

[hash tag]

Slaughter hardly vegan friendly; thats on the list.

 

[kebabking]

There was a vegan in our local last night - gave the dogs something to chew...

 

[8ball]

As opposed to the majority of vegans, who aren't dickheads at all and never warrant a fucking massive facepalm.

That wasn’t really warranted- I expect a whole heap of vegans are just doing their thing, not eating animals.

 

[Calamity1971]

That wasn’t really warranted-

But hardly surprising.

 

[cupid_stunt]

A tribunal is to be asked to decide whether veganism is a "philosophical belief" akin to a religion, in a landmark legal action.

Jordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing.

He claims he was discriminated against, and the tribunal will now decide if veganism should be protected in law.

Sacked vegan claims discrimination

This is one to watch.

To qualify as a philosophical belief, veganism must:

• be genuinely held
• be a belief as to a weighty and substantial aspect of human life and behaviour
• attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance
• be worthy of respect in a democratic society, not be incompatible with human dignity and not conflict with the fundamental rights of others
• be a belief, not an opinion or viewpoint based on the present state of information available

 

[andysays]

This is one to watch.

Surely if he's claiming discrimination because he's a vegan, the first thing he would need to demonstrate that a non-vegan who did something similar wouldn't be sacked

 

[marty21]

This is one to watch.

Certainly limits his employment prospects, and claiming any benefits since there must be a vegan ethical objection to most employers and the DWP/Government. Plus if he is self employed how can he be positive that the people or organisations he does business with are ethical vegans ?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Surely if he's claiming discrimination because he's a vegan, the first thing he would need to demonstrate that a non-vegan who did something similar wouldn't be sacked

Well, quite. The man is quite clearly a colossal bellend.

 

[prunus]

Surely if he's claiming discrimination because he's a vegan, the first thing he would need to demonstrate that a non-vegan who did something similar wouldn't be sacked

Not necessarily - he’s effectively claiming a religion equivalence, and religion, because it standardly has bullshit crazy beliefs built in, means that discrimination claims work slightly differently; Such that, if someone is doing something that would normally get them reprimanded/sacked whatever is doing that something because of genuine religious beliefs/laws/crazy hoodoo then they cannot be reprimanded, even though a non-religious person (or indeed a person of a different entirely correct religion with different arbitrary rules) would be treated differently. Or so I understand it from extensive HR training over the years. So if he’s claiming he had to do what he did because of *religous* views, rather than just ordinary rational views, he could be protected.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Not necessarily - he’s effectively claiming a religion equivalence, and religion, because it standardly has bullshit crazy beliefs built in, means that discrimination claims work slightly differently; Such that, if someone is doing something that would normally get them reprimanded/sacked whatever is doing that something because of genuine religious beliefs/laws/crazy hoodoo then they cannot be reprimanded, even though a non-religious person (or indeed a person of a different entirely correct religion with different arbitrary rules) would be treated differently. Or so I understand it from extensive HR training over the years. So if he’s claiming he had to do what he did because of *religous* views, rather than just ordinary rational views, he could be protected.

In other words, religion is yet again shown to be an absolute crock of shite that should have no special exemptions. Fucks sake.

One day I'll do a shit on my bosses desk, it's OK, my personal magic sky pixie says I have to, please don't fire me.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've stayed there, and before they think about changing their name they need to think about bus rides that cost less than a meal in a restaurant.

Subsidies for non-profitable rural bus routes are one of many things that have faced the axe thanks to local authority funding cuts. This is often ruinous, particularly for the young and the elderly, and can only hasten the descent of rural Devon into a place of holiday home ghost towns.

But I'm sure blaming the locals will help.

e2a: I see Wool is in Dorset, not Devon. I retract everything I said above because who gives a fuck about people from Dorset?

 

[andysays]

Not necessarily - he’s effectively claiming a religion equivalence, and religion, because it standardly has bullshit crazy beliefs built in, means that discrimination claims work slightly differently; Such that, if someone is doing something that would normally get them reprimanded/sacked whatever is doing that something because of genuine religious beliefs/laws/crazy hoodoo then they cannot be reprimanded, even though a non-religious person (or indeed a person of a different entirely correct religion with different arbitrary rules) would be treated differently. Or so I understand it from extensive HR training over the years. So if he’s claiming he had to do what he did because of *religous* views, rather than just ordinary rational views, he could be protected.

It would be one thing to claim he shouldn't be forced to eat meat, wear leather shoes etc because of his beliefs, that would be fair enough, but this is something else.

I'm sure there must be cases where someone has claimed a religious justification for something similar, but if it counts as gross misconduct, I don't see why religious people or vegans should be able to claim a get-out where others can't - this last bit is crucially important IMO

 

[ddraig]

My beef with vegans says more about me than them | David Mitchell

 

[existentialist]

My beef with vegans says more about me than them | David Mitchell

And?