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    Thread: The ethics if factory farming
Post: RE: The ethics if factory farming

(August 12, 2014 at 7:01 pm)Natachan Wrote: I feel worse about the deer who starve due to them exceeding the carrying capacity of the habitat. I feel bad about the areas that are picked clean, leavi...
James2014 Philosophy 67 10762 August 13, 2014 at 5:26 pm
    Thread: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?
Post: RE: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

(August 13, 2014 at 9:40 am)bennyboy Wrote: lol you're preaching to the choir, here. I work out in the gym every day, and I'm also vegan. However, I've done some work calculating macros, and your ...
James2014 Philosophy 1057 157998 August 13, 2014 at 5:04 pm
    Thread: The ethics if factory farming
Post: RE: The ethics if factory farming

(August 11, 2014 at 6:21 pm)Natachan Wrote: I found those studies after some searching, and tons like them. "After adjusting for BMI" really stood out. Including hot dogs, bologna, cured meats, and...
James2014 Philosophy 67 10762 August 12, 2014 at 5:53 pm
    Thread: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?
Post: RE: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

(August 12, 2014 at 2:43 am)bennyboy Wrote: Yeah, protein really depends on how much hurt you're putting your body through. I'm pretty sure weight-lifters need lots of protein, and I've heard that ...
James2014 Philosophy 1057 157998 August 12, 2014 at 5:40 pm
    Thread: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?
Post: RE: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

(August 12, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I missed this earlier, I always take the time to correct it - "meat farming" -is not- less efficient than "plant farming". This is propaganda. Don't get m...
James2014 Philosophy 1057 157998 August 12, 2014 at 4:17 pm
    Thread: The ethics if factory farming
Post: RE: The ethics if factory farming

(August 10, 2014 at 5:17 pm)Natachan Wrote: The doctors who treat my family? I've read the literature from those organizations, a few tend to scatter them around campus and in the library. Some of ...
James2014 Philosophy 67 10762 August 11, 2014 at 5:18 pm
    Thread: The ethics if factory farming
Post: RE: The ethics if factory farming

(August 4, 2014 at 8:59 pm)Natachan Wrote: True, I could survive off of shellfish. I could not survive off a vegan diet, since my family has a history of diabetes and complex carbs are off the table...
James2014 Philosophy 67 10762 August 10, 2014 at 5:06 pm
    Thread: The ethics if factory farming
Post: RE: The ethics if factory farming

(August 3, 2014 at 1:01 pm)Natachan Wrote: Humans are omnivorous. Our bodies are designed to eat meat. Designed? You studied anthropology and you come out with this? Your lecturers would be ashamed....
James2014 Philosophy 67 10762 August 4, 2014 at 6:32 pm
    Thread: The redneck strike again.
Post: RE: The redneck strike again.

Riketto, l think its pretty obvious you are just a troll. I think you are on this forum to make vegans look like idiots, something you have done remarkably well at! I don't know why you hate veganism ...
James2014 Skepticism & Pseudoscience 1337 293672 May 17, 2014 at 11:51 am
    Thread: Kant's Categorical Imperatives
Post: RE: Kant's Categorical Imperatives

Poor Kant, I think you are being a bit unfair to him. Kant's categorical imperatives are true according to Kant regardless of their outcomes, that kind of is their whole point, so to dismiss them bec...
James2014 Philosophy 20 4152 May 17, 2014 at 10:57 am
    Thread: The redneck strike again.
Post: RE: The redneck strike again.

(May 5, 2014 at 10:00 am)Riketto Wrote: What people know today about Buddha come from religious dogmas. If i would follow your logic i would hear you say that the rosary and the mass is what Christ ...
James2014 Skepticism & Pseudoscience 1337 293672 May 5, 2014 at 3:44 pm
    Thread: The redneck strike again.
Post: RE: The redneck strike again.

(May 4, 2014 at 10:31 am)Riketto Wrote: Meditation without a mantra is no meditation. You can call it contemplation but not meditation. What are you talking about? This is just nonsense, Buddhists d...
James2014 Skepticism & Pseudoscience 1337 293672 May 4, 2014 at 11:26 am
    Thread: The redneck strike again.
Post: RE: The redneck strike again.

(May 2, 2014 at 11:01 am)Riketto Wrote: Because Buddhism like Hinduism like Christianity like Islam are religions. Spirituality is long gone in these people so without spirituality it is very hard t...
James2014 Skepticism & Pseudoscience 1337 293672 May 3, 2014 at 4:27 am
    Thread: The redneck strike again.
Post: RE: The redneck strike again.

(April 29, 2014 at 9:37 am)Riketto Wrote: 1) You haven't taken in consideration one important factor. What Buddha was saying ages ago is not necessary what it is written in today books. It is the sa...
James2014 Skepticism & Pseudoscience 1337 293672 May 1, 2014 at 5:47 pm
    Thread: The redneck strike again.
Post: RE: The redneck strike again.

(April 23, 2014 at 8:37 am)Riketto Wrote: Quote:That still doesn't explain why praying Franciscan nuns don't believe in reincarnation even though their brains behave in the same way as the brains of...
James2014 Skepticism & Pseudoscience 1337 293672 April 27, 2014 at 4:56 am
    Thread: The redneck strike again.
Post: RE: The redneck strike again.

(April 2, 2014 at 4:09 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Quote:"Natural Hygiene Practitioners Settle Wrongful Death Suit" The settlement terms are not in the court record, but a recent fundraising appeal states t...
James2014 Skepticism & Pseudoscience 1337 293672 April 2, 2014 at 4:46 pm
    Thread: Animal Slavery
Post: RE: Animal Slavery

(April 2, 2014 at 2:35 pm)rasetsu Wrote: In what way does your giving anything that is conscious rights rest on a rational basis? And how do you know what is and isn't conscious? Is a rat consciou...
James2014 Philosophy 109 13592 April 2, 2014 at 4:39 pm
    Thread: Animal Slavery
Post: RE: Animal Slavery

(April 2, 2014 at 12:56 pm)rasetsu Wrote: But I think it's more a problem that my explanation is using 'evolution' and 'genetic compatibility' as a short-hand for a bunch of processes that need to b...
James2014 Philosophy 109 13592 April 2, 2014 at 2:00 pm
    Thread: Animal Slavery
Post: RE: Animal Slavery

(April 1, 2014 at 10:54 am)rasetsu Wrote: This can be made even stronger. The advocates often bring up marginal cases — brain damaged persons and not yet mature children — as examples of beings sim...
James2014 Philosophy 109 13592 April 2, 2014 at 12:36 pm
    Thread: The redneck strike again.
Post: RE: The redneck strike again.

(March 18, 2014 at 8:25 am)enrico Wrote: (March 16, 2014 at 2:45 pm)jg2014 Wrote: You argue that B12 can be obtained from soil bacteria. Do you have any evidence to support the idea that this is a...
James2014 Skepticism & Pseudoscience 1337 293672 April 2, 2014 at 11:09 am