Appreciation for Vegans :)

Ali

I've got a friend..he is a cow.
Dont ask when,dont ask how.
It all starts with what we eat,
As for me...I choose a beet.
He is so sweet,he sits in the field,
He eats grass..he listens to YIELD.
He looks at me and Ed as his friend,
He loves pearl Jam...play em again!
HIs name is Norman and its true,
He is my bud, with not much to do.
His tail it wags, as he eats his grass,
LOrd knows,hes got a big ass.
The Hindus love him,as do I,
Sometimes I just sit and cry.
For a day without eating meat,
Is a fine one then-for veggies I eat.
I must admit..sometimes Norman is dinner,
For I also admit...I am a weakling of a sinner.
But on a good day..I want you to know,
Without meat,My face just glows.
Next time someone offers you meat,
Dont refuse them...Its rude upon the greet.
For we all give a sacrafice,
For some friends of Norman...it is their life.
BUt as for I-I prefer the greens-
So next time you meet me,dont be mean.
lets let Norman live-For your sake,
Try not to eat too much meat...dont make a mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

depopulationINC

I am a meatatarian, but I really liked this.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Quorny but filling. Culinary art lives.

twin2

This was creative and funny. My mom grew up on a farm and loves cows. Every time we pass a field she can tell us what kind of cow it is. Her whole kitchen is done in cows. I'm guilty as charged...I can't handle too much lettuce. It tastes like paper to me. I need meat (but I do prefer chicken anyway).

depopulationINC

I don't overly like the taste of meat. I just enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that I am a part of the dominant species as I fry it.






lol, JK



I ussually have a steak every weak, 2 days of poultry, 1 or 2 of fish, and the rest is veggies.

thunder_balls

That was so damn fun to read. I loved it. I'ma' go eat me a cow. Raw.

EvilToasterElf

That poem was delicious.

I tried to write a poem a few years back starting with a cow, and going all the way from digesting a steak and using the energy when you sleep to dream. But it turned into a nightmarish hodgepodge of images all stumbling over one another....but I'll post it anyway, just to keep Norman alive in our hearts.

The Food Chain

Fields of stranded animals stare blankly
at the passing coups and sedans
waiting for the end, simply living,
munching away the daylight
until the fated grades of meat arrive, a deadly
report card, that won’t determine State or Ivy League
but steakhouses or fast food
And so they’re transported in 18 wheeled, refrigerated
coffins, past other farms of blank eyed calves
Unloaded into restaurants, and butcher shops
their dissected meat is wrapped in plastic, laying
on a bed of styrofoam, next to poultry and pork
Taken home for a Wednesday dinner to a nuclear family
unwrapped under bright kitchen lights
Simmered in the spotlight, stewing in
Pleasant aromas, while we salivate from
Breakfast nooks, with bay windows cleaving
Morning rays
Returning for the family feast, in chandeliered
Dining rooms, arching beams over hardwood
Ecstasy, nostrils connect to fantasies of satiety
And love handles, pupils dilate over garnishes
Shot through a prism of desire
Corriolis waters dilute the dinner plates
Of vegetables before the once proud flowers
Are churned in harshly grating disposal units
Tireless blood cells proctor digestive tests
Ticking away at amino acids filing into
Arteries inhaled by neurons, waiting for
Imagery to play in theatres on the black
Screens of the subconscious
Precarious gray dances, silhouettes of a day’s
Information overload
Ominous skies of a lucid dream, counted down
By an hourglass of rapid eye movement

midnight tunes

I love Norman....and I love you too!! Great poem...

Righteous Jammer

100% vegan here!!!

Ali

midnight tunes wrote:

I love Norman....and I love you too!! Great poem...

THANK YOUUUUUU!!!!!!!!:)

I've become so minimal to eating meat..but I still crave fish...which isnt too bad,especially lobster.Its kind of hard when you hear that they dont have brains.?????Whats really wierd is that I find in myself that I dont like to eat meat beacause animals are
1.)Either suiciadl and i wish they werent
or
2.) Theyre completely innocent and have no choice of having their lives taken away.

I could care less that they taste really good,but its hard living in a meat eating household and objecting to it when you get called stupid for those
beliefs and offend people by not eating meat for the reason of saving the slaughter from happening.
allison vigh

pearlmutt

wow, ali!! this is awesome

(erica jong, junior! -- fruits and vegetables, what was she thinking??!!)

i love your poem!

the worth of olives and beets -- yippie!

"I must admit..sometimes Norman is dinner,
For I also admit...I am a weakling of a sinner.
But on a good day..I want you to know,
Without meat,My face just glows.
Next time someone offers you meat,
Dont refuse them...Its rude upon the greet.
For we all give a sacrafice,"


(this is a little paul like too, from the new testa. . . well, you know where. he said something like, look, if your neighbor offers you something to eat, you say, alright, thanks, i'm at your house, and i need to have good manners)

jamjam

Have you ever looked into a cow's eyes? They are truly beautiful.
I was driving home one day and made eye contact with a cow in a truck,
it's eyes were so sad and soulful. I really wanted to save that cow, put it in my back-yard or something, , seriously though it truly was beautiful and i felt so bad for it.

burtschips

My friend just got married and one of his gifts was a pig, to be ready for christmas. I know it is not a cow but pigs have character and friendship potential too. I think I remember reading that they are exceptionally intelligent, as an elephant or dolphin is. The pig is being farmed organically and has a good quality of pig life now, but we know it is not going to last beyond christmas. I don't know where I stand on that one. My friend does, he loves food and cooking, and that pig is on borrowed time. RIP little piggy.

Liked the poem Ali very much.

Gordon Ramsay.... 'some people don't like foie gras because they think it's cruel. I think it is delicious.'.... seriously, I just heard that come out of my TV.. topical, spooky.

depopulationINC

burtschips wrote:

My friend just got married and one of his gifts was a pig, to be ready for christmas. I know it is not a cow but pigs have character and friendship potential too. I think I remember reading that they are exceptionally intelligent, as an elephant or dolphin is. The pig is being farmed organically and has a good quality of pig life now, but we know it is not going to last beyond christmas. I don't know where I stand on that one. My friend does, he loves food and cooking, and that pig is on borrowed time. RIP little piggy.

Liked the poem Ali very much.

Gordon Ramsay.... 'some people don't like foie gras because they think it's cruel. I think it is delicious.'.... seriously, I just heard that come out of my TV.. topical, spooky.

Pigs and bears are in the same strand of mamals. That entire family is considered to be very intelligent, yet I have seen pigs rape another dead pig, then eat it.

twin2

depopulationINC wrote:

Pigs and bears are in the same strand of mamals. That entire family is considered to be very intelligent, yet I have seen pigs rape another dead pig, then eat it.

That is disgusting!

depopulationINC

twin2 wrote:

That is disgusting!

thats nothin. I have seen some messed up stuff...don't ask how, but I was not responsable for any of it....well a very small percentage.

I once saw a chickens head inserted in a cows ass. NOW, let me tell you, I was disturbed, but still couldn't help but laugh. The chickedn freaked out. It clawed for its life. Needless to say, this upset the cow. It freaked out and ran all over the f'n place. Finally, it sat.

What a aweful way to go!

twin2

depopulationINC wrote:

thats nothin. I have seen some messed up stuff...don't ask how, but I was not responsable for any of it....well a very small percentage.

I once saw a chickens head inserted in a cows ass. NOW, let me tell you, I was disturbed, but still couldn't help but laugh. The chickedn freaked out. It clawed for its life. Needless to say, this upset the cow. It freaked out and ran all over the f'n place. Finally, it sat.

What a aweful way to go!

Now that is really gross. I've been to a few cock fights when I lived in Oklahoma (and yes, it is legal some places) and I was horrified. It seemed so cruel to me and so bloody. I stopped going. It bothered me too much.

depopulationINC

twin2 wrote:

Now that is really gross. I've been to a few cock fights when I lived in Oklahoma (and yes, it is legal some places) and I was horrified. It seemed so cruel to me and so bloody. I stopped going. It bothered me too much.

I know somebody who almost burned his dad's farm down. He caught a gopher, tied a string to its leg or tail (I can't remember which....he did this lots), and tied the other end to a peg in the ground. He then proceeded to lite the gopher on fire. The rope caught on fire and broke. The gopher then ran into a hay bail.....big flame.


Don't worry though, I am sure the gopher is alright.

Also,

Don't worry. After a swift ass kicking by his dad, the guy had learned his lesson.


He started using fire retardent material.


I find it disturbing that I have 100s of these storries.

pearlmutt

"My friend just got married and one of his gifts was a pig, to be ready for christmas. I know it is not a cow but pigs have character and friendship potential too. I think I remember reading that they are exceptionally intelligent, as an elephant or dolphin is. The pig is being farmed organically and has a good quality of pig life now, but we know it is not going to last beyond christmas. I don't know where I stand on that one. My friend does, he loves food and cooking, and that pig is on borrowed time. RIP little piggy.

Gordon Ramsay.... 'some people don't like foie gras because they think it's cruel. I think it is delicious.'.... seriously, I just heard that come out of my TV.. topical, spooky."

foie gras. fat liver, yes, i'll have some of that fat liver, please. and we get made fun of for spam -- super cheap by the way, looks the same.

about the pig, god i know, charlotte's web, gets me every time.

Ali

pearlmutt wrote:

"My friend just got married and one of his gifts was a pig, to be ready for christmas. I know it is not a cow but pigs have character and friendship potential too. I think I remember reading that they are exceptionally intelligent, as an elephant or dolphin is. The pig is being farmed organically and has a good quality of pig life now, but we know it is not going to last beyond christmas. I don't know where I stand on that one. My friend does, he loves food and cooking, and that pig is on borrowed time. RIP little piggy.

Gordon Ramsay.... 'some people don't like foie gras because they think it's cruel. I think it is delicious.'.... seriously, I just heard that come out of my TV.. topical, spooky."

foie gras. fat liver, yes, i'll have some of that fat liver, please. and we get made fun of for spam -- super cheap by the way, looks the same.

about the pig, god i know, charlotte's web, gets me every time.

I knew people who used to put frogs in the washer.Damn they were fucked up kids.I think theyre okay now though.And kids who used to give hermit crabs sunroofs:(That really got to me cause the only predators of those bad boys ARE humans.YOu gotta think...we are kind of fucked up for torturing animals..but if you dont know any better....

You just have to learn your lesson before that frog or gopher turns into a human being killed for senseless fun.And not eating meat?I dont know...sometimes it just brings me down to eat it.I always wish we could just
read a dog or a cats mind....?

pearlmutt

"You just have to learn your lesson before that frog or gopher turns into a human being killed for senseless fun"

yeah, i know, or for senseless pate -- once i was in sarlot, i think is the name of the place, anyway it's where they "raise" geese especially for foie gras, it's awful.

i understand needing to eat, and eating what you have to eat to survive, but that kind of stuff; it just seems like excessive cruelty for fancy feast -- which is what it looks like to me.