Vegetarian hypocrites

This is a story from the National Day of Gluttony, and it happened a few years ago, and it goes like this:

Have you ever been invited to eat during Thanksgiving at a vegetarian house?

Or maybe, you have heard the tale at work or any other place about the tofu turkey?

I was invited to this home for lunch, and to great ovation and pomp, all family members were exited to sit around the table to “celebrate” the “Day of Thanks” since the family did not celebrate Thanksgiving because of all the evils the white man did to the Native American people.

At that point, the lady of the house called upon all the people at the table to marvel at the turkey made entirely of tofu.

My inner child was overstimulated at this notion because it is silly, not to mention hypocritical.

The idea of a tofu turkey defeats the whole vegetarian concept of not eating meat for health reasons, or for the most used reason by these folks, which is that animals are somewhat sacred.

These are the people who say that animals need human rights, or one of my favorite, wondering about how the animal, in this case a turkey, can be killed humanly.

First, there should be rights (the word human is not necessary), and I agree that cruelty, mistreatment, and not being able to responsibly care for them should be important.

However, there is no humane way to kill anything because the end result is the same.

Now, finding a way to kill the animal without suffering should be a law.

I am sure we can find a way to make it happen.

Going back to the “Day of Thanks”, if the purpose of the tofu shaped as a turkey was intended as a lesson for the little ones that animals are alive and should not be eaten, then for the love of bob (these folks were not into religion), shape the tofu like anything else and that way the lesson has true meaning and importance (see an example bellow).

However, most of these people do this as a way to feel superior or evolved. They just want to rub in that they are better than you by making this production to show you their “elevated” ways.

They do not care about animals, just like they do not care about another of their motifs: the environment.

These will be the ones driving around an electric car simply because “it’s the thing”.

Regardless that “I don’t have to go to the evil gas station”, but plugging the car all night uses electricity that is produced by burning something.

I was never invited back to another “day of thanks”, and to be honest, I never missed it, and in time my trips were to carnivore-friendly places who celebrated Thanksgiving.

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