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ScrumYummy
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 Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: brits force veganism? |
Haha. I found this article that basically claims the British government is considering forcing people to adopt vegan diets in order to help the environment. The source is very hokey, though, but I had a great time laughing at the article. (if only it were true! XD just kidding...I would hate the idea of forcing people to adhere to a specific diet, as I wouldn't want anybody doing that to me.)
Article: Brits could be forced to give up meat/milk to fight global warming
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Global warming hysteria has reached a new peak after it was revealed that the British government is considering forcing the population to give up meat and milk and adopt a vegan diet in the name of fighting climate change.
The move could spell the end of the very definition of British identity - the humble cup of tea along with the roast beef Sunday dinner - and represents the latest brazen effort to regulate and control every minute aspect of our lives under the banner of global warming.
"Secret plans to encourage the nation to give up eating meat are being examined by the Government. A leaked e-mail expresses sympathy for the environmental benefits of a mass switch to a vegan diet - a strict form of vegetarianism which bans milk, dairy products and fish."
"The change would need to be done "gently" because of a "risk of alienating the public", according to the document. The extreme policy is being examined on the basis it could make a major contribution to slowing climate change," reports the London Daily Mail.
If you thought the insanity of Sheryl Crow's solution of only using one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit was kooky, this tops it by a mile. Though after a New York Times editorial called for imposing a carbon tax on the very air we breathe, nothing from these nutcases should surprise us.
As I have outlined before, the more extreme and outlandish the proposals for fighting global warming become, the more people will wake up to the fact that this movement has little to do with saving the earth and everything to do with the state having the excuse to exact suffocating control measures upon the individual.
Should it ever come to fruition, this ridiculous proposal will completely decimate the farming community, a long-time goal of the social architects that have declared war on any kind of self-sustainance or independence from the state.
Since the dawn of time man has hunted and eaten meat but now these control freaks wish to reverse thousands of years of civilized history and topple the food chain itself by stigmatizing meat-eating as a blasphemous insult to mother earth. |
*EDITyo*
aha, I think I found where they got this from. This article mentions that somebody got an email from a government official on the topic of proposals they are considering, one of which is some way to encourage (not force) people to adopt veg*n diets.
So don't have a panic attack, as apparently all of these people did XD just laugh at it and carry on. |
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Akanari
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: |
That's very amusing.
It's no fair, I feel like the government is forcing me not to have direct human protein in my diet. They won't let me have any limbs! Just a thigh? Please? I'll sedate the donar, I swear! |
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:56 am Post subject: |
It does seem like a Joke, but as with various things Labour have tried to force upon British citizens, such as Britiain becoming part of the EU (no spank you, we like our GBP!), the general public wouldn't let this sort of thing pass. If it was forced, surely thats discrimination against those who aren't vegan? |
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 8:13 am Post subject: |
| RivaOni wrote: | | no spank you, we like our GBP! |
Amen |
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:06 am Post subject: |
I think Jonathan Swift was right-- really, we should just start eating the human poor. |
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: |
| Legend wrote: | | I think Jonathan Swift was right-- really, we should just start eating the human poor. |
I'm all about resorting to cannibalism. I can imagine a world where everyone goes around in fear of being ganked and eaten. |
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject: |
Irish baby fingers are a delicacy for the upper class, I've heard.
Ahh...A Modest Proposal can't be beat. |
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:00 am Post subject: |
Dont you have that issue in certain parts of Africa where cannibalism is practiced by certain tribes? |
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: |
Umm... Yeah.
CANIBALISM?!?!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?WFTLOLROTFLOMG!
Be that as it may, as much as I am all for the Inalienable Rights of Man, at what point did they become: The Inalienable Rights of Man to Destroy his Own Planet, Screw You Nature, But, Hey, Some of Us Want to Actually Live Here?
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:55 am Post subject: |
I'm with Sperrit here. Now I'm not saying forcing anything on the public. I'm just think that a generally small tax say .5% of the cost of some items, incorperated into their price could start raising money only to be spent on working to fix our figgin planet. |
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