Vegetarians

    So, my brother is a vegetarian. I don't see how anyone could refuse to eat meat, but I get it. I know why he would do it. He does it because he doesn't want some animal dying because of him. I can understand that. I think it's stupid, and don't really see the difference between killing a plant and an animal (In the words of 2 the Ranting Gryphon, "Taking the life of a plant is no different from taking the life of an animal. Just because it can't yelp when you pluck it doesn't mean you're not killing it.") but I can sort of see why he doesn't want to be a part of the death of that animal. But he did something the other day that really confused me.

I made mac and cheese for dinner, and as usual I grated (grote?) up some cheese to put in with the powdered shit that call cheese in the box. When I served it my bother looked at it, turned his nose up at it, and then threw it away. Apparently the cheese I added contained calf stomach lining or something, and he refused to eat, and would rather throw that food away and starve than eat it.

Now, he can starve, I don't care about that, but what I didn't get is why he would throw that food in the garbage. It is one thing to not want a animal to die because of you, but as soon as that animal is already dead and on a plate, throwing it away is, from my point of view, much worse. By throwing it away you are not preventing that animal from dying, it's already dead; All you're doing is making it so that that cow in your burger died in vain. The thing is though, that this isn't just my brother. I bet you you could not find a "devout" vegetarian who would not do the exact same thing. By throwing it away, you are taking a death that would have at least gone to giving you nutrition and energy to let you live, and taking even that away from it. While refusing to let an animal be killed to feed you, you just made that animal die for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Good job. You are now just slightly less hypocritical than Jerry Falwell if he opened a gay bar.