Do Animals Deserve Rights? Marinade?

★ Spotlighted from comet demuta

“Greets from oz c: Hi Eleanor, Lee and everyone. Thanks so much for all you do such kind souls that give me great hope. Apologies i haven't been around to much, out fighting for us. Yes i believe animals deserve their rights to live and be cared for.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“I'm only here for the animals”

★ Spotlighted from Patricia Scully

“Hi Lee and Eleanor, thank you for caring.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.nnMahatma GandhinnnThe greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.nnMahatma GandhinThe greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“Hiya gang! Don't give my dogs any ideas.”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“I am a meat eater”

★ Spotlighted from Kellie Marie

“Agreed Comet! I hope our government are not successful in getting it exempt until 2019 as proposed :(”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Locker

“I think we may judge animals by intelligence, communication, and the ability to make facial expressions. If you don't have at least one of these 3...your food.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“um is there going to be a discussion or is this like liberals anonymous where we all say hello & nothing really happens ?”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“I have given it plenty of thought”

★ Spotlighted from Kellie Marie

“I believe animals should have the right to be protected from harm!”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“I prefer to hunt wild game when possible”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“I still am a meat eater, but not nearly as often as in the past. I loved my veggies as a kid and I still do.”

★ Spotlighted from Tim Hayes

“I had an issue and had to reload the page to see the coversation”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“The reason is that I feel that animal protein and fats are a huge benefit to human health”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“meat-eaters.. Ur so called PLEASURE is anothers PAIN.. is this justifiable?”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“Don't worry Lee, we still love you, man!”

★ Spotlighted from comet demuta

“i am 44 this year. i am vegan for over 20 yrs. i gave a very hard job and run rings around the younger ppl there. the protein issue is a myth!”

★ Spotlighted from Brandi Ssenter

“I'd like to know that if someone chooses to eat an animal product, that the animal had a fair and happy life. Enjoyed the sun, rain, grass, playing. I'd never humiliate a person for having different food tastes. That isn't kind.”

★ Spotlighted from Jess Perry

“@Maria Maybe, but is eating meat and caring about animals really mutually exclusive?”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Locker

“testing on primates should banned,”

★ Spotlighted from Cave Raven

“Meat consumption is about more than animal rights - impact on environment and and waste of grain that feeds animals that could feed many more people etc”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“You are killing living things when you eat plants”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“life feeds on the death of otehr life whether plant or animal”

★ Spotlighted from Jess Perry

“Lee, I thought you lived on anger.”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“Testing cosmetics on animals is ridiculous.”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“Proplem is that people in this country are so disconnected from nature becuse we have technology and industry that provides their food for them. They have no clue where it comes from or who it came from.”

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

“To think that I ate the factory meat while growing up in America freaks me out even today!”

★ Spotlighted from Sean C

“In the end it all comes down to this. "life eats life" Every one's beliefs on where they stand on the ethics of consuming meat will always be different as they incur different life experiences that mold their perspectives.”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“Most people in America today have never had to kill or harvest their own food. I believe most people would change their ideas if they did.”

★ Spotlighted from Sean C

“It's been proven now that plants can feel pain.”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“Eleanor and Lee I have no problems with your wanting to be vegan or vegitarian but I have a problem with people telling me what I can or can't eat or put into my body”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“OMG this chat room is even more infuriating than this subject, who goes first ? is this a debate or a Q& A ? and yes I AM A MEAT EATER ( the actual meat that i can find not that pink slime they try to pawn off ) next question”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“Am I abusing an animal by hunting it in teh wild or are corporate farmers abusing them by raising them in pens?”

★ Spotlighted from Katie Klabusich

“@That Guy -- this is mostly about factory farming. I don't think anyone here would shame the people in my hometown who hunt during deer season to feed their families over the winter.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“I have the solution to every problem. YOU WANT PEOPLE TO CARE TAKE AWAY THEIR WIFI access & throw a # tag and a @ symbol at who they should be revolting agaisnt and for what & within 24 hours socio-economic balance would be restored.”

★ Spotlighted from Ben Risch

“katie without hsaming anyone, how many people really hunt deer to feed their families? i know people eat it, that's not what i mean”

★ Spotlighted from Katie Klabusich

“If you made a comment about it earlier, Ben, I didn't see it. I was responding to someone else. And I have friends I grew up with who do still have to do that to eat.”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“The beef industry would not be as large today without the US Govt corn subsidies”

★ Spotlighted from Kellie Marie

“Exactly Lee, overall I see veganism as a liberation movement, not just for animals, but for humanity and the earth in general!”

★ Spotlighted from comet demuta

“the largest land based animal massacre is here in oz. kangaroos. it is also the image mascot. doesn't that seem absurd?”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“I prefer to call them corporate farms.”

★ Spotlighted from Pyotr Drevacks

“we should boycott the meat industry for sure, but i dont think we should stop eating meat, it is known that animal protein made our brains get to where they are now, we owe out intelligence to animal nutrition”

★ Spotlighted from comet demuta

“is used for dog meat, small amount for human consumption , and they cull them because they eat grass which farmer intend for their livestock. And some sport.”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“Humans have just become so "pussified" that they have lost touch of what keeps our ecosystem balanced”

★ Spotlighted from Ben Risch

“i switched from eating cereal with milk to almond milk and it wasnt too hard”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“Lee.. U say *that guy * is a free human being.. but we live in a society were it's not ok to be free to do as U please, or U get locked up for it, as the LAW PROTECTS.. certain beings, even dogs and cats, ought we be FREE to do as we please?”

★ Spotlighted from Cave Raven

“Lee, George Carlin talked about pussification of US, you dissin' him? :P”

★ Spotlighted from Sean C

“I've dabbled in veganism for a little over a year. The longest strand being 2 months straight. It is definitely a harder lifestyle in a world that feels offended for making them think about what they eat.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“am I the only one not seeing any responses to questions ? is there going to be a print out or download of all these points ?”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“Ok.. am confused now, U wouldn't support a law to protect cows, but U would support certain treatment for cows? :o/”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“OK, so if you eat meat, say "pussification" you are no longer accepted by thsi crowd.....”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“@lee .. why would U not support a law to ban them from being eaten..? that's not pro animal rights..”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“lee.. U think is ok for animals to be bred to be exploited and used for ££££ ? to be born to die? U think humans got that right?”

★ Spotlighted from comet demuta

“The true revolution is one of empathy, compassion and gentle kind caring of all life i believe!”

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

“Every American should have a required field trip to India to be able to see these beautiful creatures (cows) just hanging out and walking down the middle of the streets.”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“Doesn't India have stand your ground laws pertaining to animals?”

★ Spotlighted from Sean C

“I feel like nutrition talks are always just a large debate.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“and sorry to say but there is no more nobility in being poor anymore there's so many options to strive and thrive that its' not even funny. So if I can relay any message to anyone here please check out becoming a B-certified companies especially”

★ Spotlighted from Steven Geary

“There is a massive global war on natural living. I don't exactly have the answer but I figure I'll start by trying to limit the poisonous food I purchase.”

★ Spotlighted from Sean C

“Our beliefs are highly contingent on where and how we grew up. If you grew up in an environment with little food, you wouldn't think in terms of morality, but in terms of survival as Lee said earlier.”

★ Spotlighted from comet demuta

“i am part of ALF it all began for me when i was 4 years old at bull fight in spain. i screamed my head off and had to be dragged from the place kicking and screaming. point, a 4yr old knows right from wrong.”

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

“Bull fighting, most people are rooting for the bull.”

★ Spotlighted from comet demuta

“yes Lee”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“Alf had a thing for cats.”

★ Spotlighted from Sean C

“I once put a list together of all the reasons why you should go vegan, and after reading it, it doesn't really make sense not to, unless you want to eat it for selfish reasons.”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“@comet.. I turned veg at 8years when saw a cow hung up by her legs and throat slit, accidently on TV.. thank god.. I did.. and yes, I knew right from wrong, I was DISTRAUGHT... am assuming most kids would be if they knew the truth, which most do not”

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

“DId you hear about the elephant activist that lived in Africa, when he dies many elephants came to his place to mourn him.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“Umm sean being a VEGATARIAN does NOT automatically make you less selfish than meat eaters anymore than being an Atheist automatically makes you more intelligent”

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

“if you eat plant or animal you are eating life.”

★ Spotlighted from Sean C

“What if people had to watch the animal they were about to eat get killed on a screen? Do you think it would change their perceptions?”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“why not allow children to see the truth as to where their food comes from and let them make their mind up? why hide it.. because is so revoltingly violent is why.. is not *Food*”

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

“I know it sounds hardcore, but if you must eat an animal, you should kill it and prepare it yourself.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“and Mark dice and all these ppl who keep everybody in a perpetual state of terror and hatred for their fellow man or woman without even trying to understnad the reasons why or how these ppl do what they do . I for one like the notion that ppl do'nt”

★ Spotlighted from Katie Klabusich

“That's it, now I have to google plants to find the Gary Busey look-a-like....”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“Lee, am confused about U.. :o) veg or vegan or neither.. am confused as to why U don't think we ought to have a law to stop killing animals for food?”

★ Spotlighted from Steven Geary

“Whatever happens, those concerned enough to talk about this could certainly come up with a strategy. Diamonds don't need their artificial value any more than a $50 steak has to be the symbol of success.”

★ Spotlighted from Sean C

“I watched a video on pigs being killed earlier, and it was painful to watch... but then i ordered curry pad thai with chicken. I think it is all about what justifications you make.”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“I was trying to find a way to work vaginatarian into the conversation. Sorry”

★ Spotlighted from That Guy

“Vaginatarian = OK Pussification = Not OK”

★ Spotlighted from comet demuta

“i saw a comment recently about how disgusting human milk is, being sold i think. but goat and cows is ok??”

★ Spotlighted from Steven Geary

“The USA, a nation of used car salesman and their customers.”

★ Spotlighted from Maria Hibana Gracilis

“@lee.. thanks for clearing that..it sounded as if U .. sure.. but we have the capacity to create laws to protect animals in our culture.. where it's unnecessary for survival..”

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

“And what about all the mystery meat being consumed...I a think I am going to be sick!”

★ Spotlighted from Mike Dwornik

“I can't handle fast food anymore. The drive up window is one of the major things wrong with America.”

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

“We need to start growing our own food.”

★ Spotlighted from Courtney Driver

“Question: Lee do you or have you found signed pettions to help you in your efforts thus far or have they only contributed to fuel more anger towards your comedy ?”