vegan = crazy??


He took his crazy meds and he started eating meat?? I really didnt get that point.. anyone can help?

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Seems to me you got it just fine.

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This movie had alot of generalities. Nothing wrong with eating meat, or being vegetarian or vegan, its all about getting the essential vitamins and minerals. Anyways, the generality here is that all the "spiritual" people on our planet think they are connecting with earth and doing the right thing by not killing animals, which feel pain etc.

They are abused pretty bad, and filled with junk. If people saw how it was processed, they would second guess what is going in their body. Not for the killing or abusing part, but what factory farmed meat has turned into junk food essentially. HMMM, who wants cow puss and blood in their milk and left over cysts in their meat?! Plus 80 percent of the antibiotics in the US go straight to farm animals.

Anyways, it was just a generality. You put the wrong correlation together. After he took the pills, he calmed down and didn't think he had to save the planet by himself. Just think if you were neurotic from thinking all the time and only thought of all the bad things that you wanted to fix in the world that you can't control. You would turn out like him too.

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It's not by accident, it's meat and dairy industry propaganda.

They like to associate vegetarianism with being a hippie, or being a communist, or being insane, or being low-IQ, or being physically weak, or not knowing how to fight, or being socially awkward, or being incompetent, etc.

Never will the mass media show vegetarians eating an actual healthy, hearty, balanced vegetarian meal. It is always assumed that vegetarians are freaks who know nothing about real health or diet, who load up on French fries and other processed foods and really bad fake meat and dairy products. Go to any home in India for the last few thousand years and you can find real vegetarian dishes, but you'll never see those in mainstream media.

Stereotypes are created by being repeated in the mass media, it has always been that way. The US media is owned by a tiny cartel of multinational corporations. The acceptable topics in movies and shows is quite limited. Every mainstream TV show these days has some type of pro-meat anti-vegetarian propaganda, it's not by chance.

The US meat and dairy industries receive over 30 billion USD per year in corporate welfare -- $30,000,000,000+! And the media complains about welfare being given to individuals, but that pales in comparison to how much is given to corporations each year. The meat and dairy corporations are releasing more greenhouse gases than all other industries combined, and are turning the Gulf of Mexico into a giant dead zone that can't sustain any life, and ranked worst job in North America (US factory farms largely employ illegal immigrants who can't complain about the slave-like conditions, many workers sick and dying).

The meat and dairy industries are devastating the planet, it takes a lot of propaganda to make people think things are fineew.

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Maybe, it would be a great idea, to not get your education from youtube and get it from a decent professional education instead. That way, your life wouldn't be taken over by idealism constructed by the emptiness of modern life.

There is a lot of evidence, oh, I said lot, I mean there is millions and trillions of evidence against everything you said. To understand this, you would need a background in the following areas. Why? You've really been suffocated by an existence away from society which has left you feeding off youtube.

OK... Do the following.

Get a good solid background in:

Economics
Sciences (all of them, in your case biology and chemistry)
Sociology
Psychology
Finance
Media - you definitely need this

I think that might just do it. It would take you about 3 years I think or 5 year part time but you'll realise that, the idea of veganism/vegetarianism is built on a premise that eliminates a balanced approach in favour of gross selective reasoning and also, importantly, that pain and sacrifice on a personal level, is a lot more important than actually making a difference in the world.

If you really think there is a problem - fix it. If you can't fix it, maybe the problem isn't the one you see but something else. Namely in this case something personal.

Now I am not saying vegetarianism or veganism is bad, even though funneling hard earned cash into what angry youtube personalities say is a waste of one's life, but what I am saying is, maybe you are placing blame on the wrong people.

I think you are.

Think for yourself and not the millions of vegan websites.

You know why I think veganism and vegetarianism is immoral? Because every person who goes on this aggressive onstlaught goes all social media and has a website for it.

Life is more than that and if you have missed that train, it's very sad.

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Wait, are you saying that people who follow YouTube pages are the ones who don't think for themselves, or the ones who follow the propaganda from the meat industry and fda are the ones who don't? You have a lot of words belittling other people, but little to no facts at all.

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This guy is clearly one of the paid pro-meat/dairy industry commenters.

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Vegans/Vegetarians Contribute A LOT To Planet Earth.Every Single Vegetarian Saves Wastage Of 50 Gallon Water Per Day Wasted In Slaughterhouses To Kee Meat Fresh Besides Vegetarians Save Grains As Their Diet Is Not Fed Excessive Grains To Make It Fatty.Most Toxic Gases,Ozone Damaging Gases Are Released From Slaughterhouses.

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This is awesome. :)

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I believe the meds he started taking reset the worry and concern that he used to have for the earth. The meds helped by stopping him thinking too much about everything... I like the way it was portrayed.

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"He took his crazy meds and he started eating meat?? I really didnt get that point.. anyone can help?" For Ben his vegetarianism was partly a kind of fixation or obsession (thus his "knowledge" that crawfish are the third-most whatever), and the meds were undercutting the obsessiveness, as meds do. In general, the movie tried to show that Ben becoming "normal" was inevitably a mixed blessing. I think the director believes very strongly that standing for something is cooler than not wanting your back lawn to get marks on it from toys. But in Ben's case, where he had assaulted someone for saying things he only imagined him saying, being the old (partly) cool Ben was not a practical option.

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The movie points out that the assumption of being normal are the crazy people. Normal is hIdina and all the normal charcaters were actually the mentally troubled. Zach's character was the only normal one, but then he took the meds which made him crazy like all the rest; thus, he eats meat because that is what the crazy fools who are locked into propagated routine due. He eats meat because in the end Zach's character is now crazy for real.

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