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> [...] I regularly compare those indulging in animal food to peadosexuals: they destroy someones life over some short sensual pleasure.

If you regularly do this, you're shutting down conversation in such an extremist way that it is counterproductive. There's a campaign in my country run by some extremist animals rights group with signs that read (translation mine) "yuck! Meat is nauseating!". Their campaign gains little traction because it's both extremist and demonstrably false; most people eating an asado concur meat is delicious, not nauseating. That line of extremist argumentation -- just like comparing eating animals to pedophilia -- is going to lead you nowhere.

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Meat is nauseating if you aren't raised on it to eat it every day. Vegetables don't do that to you. Your body isn't gonna forget how to digest a tomato because you stop eating them for a few years. Most digestion of meat is done by bacteria since the cells are too similar to our own for other processes. Those bacteria die out if you don't feed them meat.

Eating an animal means killing a sapient being for your own pleasure. You don't need it for sustenance. It's objectively worse for that end both on an efficiency scale (trophic levels from sun -> plant -> herbivore -> you) and health scale.

People might get offended by the comparison but it's not my job to hold the hands of people offended by rhetoric. I thought facts don't care about feelings? Extreme is subjective. I view daily murder as pretty extreme but we consider that fine as long as the life being taken is non-human. Want to go wring a chicken's neck in your backyard and eat it? Totally normal and rustic.

Tell people that is gross? Extremist demonstrably false vegan agenda

> Vegetables don't do that to you

Apples give me nausea, almost always. No other fruit does this to me, though. My mother-in-law finds the sweet smell of bananas nauseating as well, it makes her want to puke.

> Tell people that is gross? Extremist demonstrably false vegan agenda

It is demonstrably false that meat is disgusting. It's also counterproductive propaganda. Over here most people enjoy asado. It is delicious. Tell them "meat is nauseating" and they will contrast it with their experience, see it's false, and write you off. If the goal with the extremist slogan was to advance a cause, congratulations -- you've failed.

It doesn't work because it's both extremist and false. There are other ways of making the vegan point.

Comparing eating animals to pedophilia is... unwise.

Which bacteria are digesting the meat ? I mean in human intestinal track.

I didn’t know chloride acid is a bacteria. Damn the science is fabulous on this website. May be soon a Nobel prize for you ?

> Meat is nauseating if you aren't raised on it to eat it every day. Vegetables don't do that to you.

Let me tell you about Koreans and cilantro...

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