A group of New Zealand vegans are taking their dietary choices to bed. In a brand-spanking new phenomenon being called "vegansexuality," some animal-friendly Kiwis are choosing "not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals."
One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."
Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.
"I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance," she said.
Okay, hang on just a minute, here. I'm a strict vegetarian—a vegan, for all intents and purposes (any animal products that make their way into my diet do so accidentally, at this point), and while I'm not too keen on swapping saliva with my boyfriend just after he's eaten a big, juicy burger, I find this vegansexuality thing to be verging on the absurd. Unless these vegansexuals are engaging in some kind of cannibalistic, Praying Mantis-inspired sex, I don't really see what the problem is. You're not eating your partner, are you? You're not wearing a jacket or a pair of shoes made out of your partner, right?
The revelation of this new little movement came through the research of Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University.
Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical Consumers asked 157 people nationwide about everything from battery chickens to sexual preferences.
Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.
"It's a whole new thing – I have not come across it before," said Potts.
Their bodies are made up of animal carcasses? That's just ridiculous. While I can understand being hesitant about romantic involvement with a meat-eater due to potential health issues like heart disease, hypertension, and colon cancer, viewing their bodies as "made up of animal carcasses" is taking it a bit far. I picture a zombie-like creature with a ham hock for a heart and chickens feet for eyes.
"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," she said.
"Sorry, I don't do the hot beef injection, but I do give great cabbage head."
thats a bit weird because i am sure at one point in their life they too were omnivores consuming many a meaty dinner before they decided to become vegan,,,,? I doubt that most of them have never ever had a meat product before.
I burn nature every time I urinate, but that's what happens when you're a pillar of meat, a towering, carcass effigy to a legion of nameless beasts. The world becomes your wasteland.
Ha ha. Surely you should be completely allowed to be discriminating when it comes to people you don't wanna fuck, but why make a FUCKING POINT out of it? I can't stand people who make a political statement out of every fucking thing they do.
The funny thing is that they are often so absorbed with one issue that they are totally blind to other issues. Fuck, if you want to be totally pure in every aspect you can't do anything, really. I know a vegan who hardly can't stand her roommate having milk in the fridge, but she doesn't have any problem with jetting off to Tanzania every now and then, emitting tons of carbon-dioxide. Meh, I don't get it.
Vestril said:
A lot of people worship a corpse nailed to a stick, so I guess I can't find it in me to be bothered overmuch by these peoples wacky ideas.
Vestril said:
A lot of people worship a corpse nailed to a stick, so I guess I can't find it in me to be bothered overmuch by these peoples wacky ideas.
ouch. got any racism to go with that prejudice?
Yes. White people are overly hairy, and their toe jam smells like tire fires.
Even though I'm a vegetarian myself, this is one of the few cases that I'm like, "This is news?" Being a vegan or a vegetarian can be seen as a moral choice. But only sleeping with vegans is a personal choice, no different from only sleeping with Asians or people with freckles. There doesn't even seem to be any motion to organize mentioned in the original article, this one person just did a survey and realized that, shocker, people generally prefer to sleep with people who make similar choices to their own.
But anyways, what's so bad about being self-righteous? There are much worse character flaws, so I don't get why people demonize vegans so much. Especially people who are otherwise very vocally liberal on subjects like human rights, feminism, war, religion, etc. It's like they don't want to interact with anyone more to the left than they are? I don't get it.
Vestril said:
A lot of people worship a corpse nailed to a stick, so I guess I can't find it in me to be bothered overmuch by these peoples wacky ideas.
Actually, it's someone that's human yet Divine that rose from the Dead after being nailed to a stick that is worshipped.
Vestril said:
A lot of people worship a corpse nailed to a stick, so I guess I can't find it in me to be bothered overmuch by these peoples wacky ideas.
ouch. got any racism to go with that prejudice?
I'm looking for but not finding my prejudiced opinion in that post; you'll have to explain it to me. I'm not very clever.
Vestril said:
A lot of people worship a corpse nailed to a stick, so I guess I can't find it in me to be bothered overmuch by these peoples wacky ideas.
Actually, it's someone that's human yet Divine that rose from the Dead after being nailed to a stick that is worshipped.
Hope that makes it easier to accept.
Dude I've spent time in Catholic churches, it's a bunch of people kneeling in front of and praying to an effigy of a corpse nailed to a stick. Gussy it up however you like, but that's all I can see.
yay, more media coverage that shows vegans as "extreme" or "crazy" or "terrorists". I guess the knuckle-dragging right wing started running out of people who would lap up their gay hating hot air, so next up, vegans.
fake111 said:
Maybe we dont have the technology yet to hear plants scream...
then what?
but until a cow takes my job, they're boots and burgers...
Somehow, that reminds me of (and I already typed all this out and posted it at half an hour ago but it still says "posting' and probably will for 2 to 4 hours, then post blank like it usually does so I'll start over) the Elvis version of Old MacDonald Had A Farm" and its significant lyrical changes:
Old Macdonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o
And on that farm he had some chicks, e-i-e-i-o
With a cluck, cluck here, a cluck, cluck there
Loud as they could be
And when those chicks got out of line . . .
. . . Chicken fricassee!
With a cluck, cluck here, a cluck, cluck there
Loud as they could be
And when those chicks got out of line . . .
. . . Chicken fricassee!
Well, Old Macdonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o
And on that farm he had some cows, e-i-e-i-o
With a moo, moo here, a moo, moo there
Cattle everywhere!
And when those cows got out of line . . .
. . . Hamburger, medium rare
With a moo, moo here, a moo, moo there
Cattle everywhere!
And when those cows got out of line . . .
. . . Hamburger, medium rare
Ohh, Well, Old Macdonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o
And on that farm he had some pigs, e-i-e-i-o
With an oink, oink here, an oink, oink there
Pigs everywhere in sight
And when those pigs got out of line . . .
. . . Pork and beans at night!
With an oink, oink here, an oink, oink there
Pigs everywhere in sight
And when those pigs got out of line . . .
. . . Pork and beans at night!
Well I'm goona have a farm one day, e-i-e-i-o
And I'll do things McDonalds way, e-i-e-i-o
With a cluck, cluck here, a cluck, cluck there
A moo, moo here, a moo, moo there
An oink, oink here, an oink, oink there
And I can promise you
If those animals ever get out of line . . .
. . . We'll have a Mulligan stew!
How about you?
That said, I understand the sentiment of the vegansexuals. The body fluids "ingested" contain animal products and the cellular metabolism is fueled by, and therefore, a product of animals.
There was a book in the 80s detailing how animal products are in things like tires and asphault, so driving a car or riding a bicycle, or even walking on a street is considered by some as taboo.
It may all seem odd to those who don't subscribe to it, but I fully understand why they feel that way.
I enjoy very little opera, but I understand its appeal.
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