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The difference is that puppies are cute. Who thinks cows are cute?

Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves.

The very first movie I saw in theaters was The Little Mermaid, and I still do not eat fish to this day. Admittedly, I won't eat fish because I think they taste disgusting, but I think that that stems from my emotional attachment to Flounder and Sebastian. And watching Finding Nemo didn't hurt that either. :)

I think that if I was 15 years younger and had seen Home On The Range as my first film, I would probably be a complete vegetarian.

I enjoy reading all these arguments about how much impact these films have on people. I'm actually writing my master's thesis on this topic!

Haha, it's funny you would bring up this topic. I watched countless Disney movies as a child, and my mom blames my vegetarianism on that. :p Of course, a lot of children watch a lot of Disney movies. I guess some of us take the lessons more to heart than others.

And I think cows are cute. Not as cute as puppies, but still cute. I will totally admit, I'm probably the minority in thinking that though. Which confuses me...isn't this cute or am I crazy?
http://cuteoverload.com/2011/06/17/summers-here/

ALSO pigs are the cutest and nobody cares about them either.
http://cuteoverload.com/2011/07/07/teeny-peeglette/

Maybe nobody thinks about the juvenile forms of these animals and only thinks about the adult forms, which are admittedly much less cute.

I hope you're not the kind of vegetarian who doesn't eat eggs because in turn they don't eat the vast majority of pastries that have eggs baked into them.

Of course I can't argue against vegetarians since they save loads of money on food that way. I'm just wondering what the boundaries of their diet extends to since many baked goods require eggs. I do also often wonder where they get their dose of protein since it's a necessity to a healthy body.

That is probably the strangest thing about our species .... the ability to dichotomize everything. You talk about Disney movies as a child but how about experiences as adults that literally lose their effects in minutes. People go to a petting zoo and talk about how beautiful and cute sheep are and then hours later can sit down and eagerly gobble up a rack of lamb! Especially when what they are eating comes from mass farming where the animals are treated so cruelly.

I became a vegetarian 15 years ago and it was the best thing I have ever done. With all the choice out there today, one certainly does not need to eat meat especially the mass farmed variety.

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It's in our nature to eat cows

We eat cows and when we die, our bodies become the grass and the cows eat the grass. So we are all part of the great circle of life.

Cows were created from wild species by centuries of selective breeding by humans solely for food and materials. They are a crop.

In Western cultures, dogs are primarily raised as companions to humans, with a secondary function in various service roles.

That's why we eat cows and make shoes out of them, but we let dogs sleep on our couches.