MEAT EATERS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT!

piglets really are quite cute.

>DAE le strawman?? xDDDDD
>>>/reddit/

>>34803938
I actually would eat a dog. If dog was a delicacy where I live, you know like in some shitty Asian countries. As it is, dog isn't a delicacy in the west, so I don't eat it. Much like I don't eat crickets and other insects.

I'd try dog meat if it was sold here, just out of curiosity. Doesn't change the fact that I still love my dog though.

>>34803938
I don't give a fuck what I need to do to become a mountain of muscle. If I have to kill animals and eat their flesh to do it then that's what I will fuckin do. Show me 1 pussy as vegan who doesn't look like sickly and I might change my mind.

>>34803938
>not eating doggo if needed
Normies man
Also dummy is forgetting how important meat was in human evolution

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I LIKE PIGES

>>34803981
the needle drop
He looks p swole

looks pretty tastey

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>look how cute

pigs are the most disgusting of mammals

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>>34803938
>those dick sucking Iips

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>pigs are smarter than 3 year olds
So? 3 year olds are fucking dumbasses

I'd eat a 3 year old

>>34803938

nigga i would eat a dog if his meat was available at the supermarket

pigs are bacon machines
they are manufactured and harvested as necessary
stop projecting empathy on food, it's a disgrace to humanity

>>34803938
I'd eat cute things too, I don't mind.
Now, you're telling me those big nosed shits are cute? Am I the only one who thinks that baby pigs aren't cute, as most people say?
Also
>I'd never eat a dog because they're smart and cute!"
Who the fuck says that? I've never heard anyone saying such thing.

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good goys, eat up all those hormones.

>>34804142
wheres my fried dog?

>>34804215
dog has no such succulence

dogs are embarrassing creatures of their own right, manufactured particularly for empathy projection
they are among the greatest embarrassments of humanity, though the slavedogs that herd and hunt still retain some marginal utility

>>34804142
humanity is a disgrace to humanity.

>>34804022
>>not eating doggo if needed

There's one thing about dogs and pigs: dogs eat meat. You have to feed it with meat just so you can eat it later. Sacrificing 50 or more kg of meat to produce 5 kg of dog meat.
It's just not a good idea to do that on a big scale.

Of course you're correct that in time of need, dogs are basically wild meat. It just wouldn't make sense to eat them in any other situation but a shortage of meat.

>>34803938
carnivore meat tastes awful

>>34803938
>I'm asian
Vegan idiots btfo

>>34803938
Dogs are tools more than food. Pigs can be tools as well, to search and dig out truffles, besides that they aren't of much use.

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>>34804016
Here is the one (1) vegan body builder you ordered.

If you want to eat some dog
I have good news
There's an annual dog festival
Where you can eat all the dog you want
And it's located in Yulin Guangxi China
And the festival spans about ten days
With 15 thousand dogs consumed
And it goes from the 21st to the 30th of June
I just wanna let you know
I'm just tryna' be a bro
So you first take a flight to Guangzhou China
Once you get off at that airport
You wanna ask around for the Guangxi provincial bus
And it costs 20 US dollars
And it's a four and a half hour ride
And you get off at Maoming West
Just remember Maoming West
Now you might have to stay there a full night
Depending on the time you arrive
Because the next bus that goes to Yulin only runs like once a day
And you have to buy another ticket
It's about another 22 bucks
But from there it goes straight to Yulin
Soon enough you'll be eating some dog
Now there are about 8 available hotels in Yulin
I'm checking online now
I suggest the Yulin Lijing International Hotel
Offering a sauna, fitness center
Wow it's not too bad at all
Nevermind, it's 50 bucks a night
But with free complementary breakfast
And a free cancelation fee
So it's not a bad as I thought
When you're ready the concierge will know exactly which festival you're talking about
And he or she will give you directions
So take a cab
But don't get ripped off
If you're white they'll charge you double
I shit you not
I shit you not
But anyways enjoy your flight
Goodbye
Enjoy the dog festival

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>>34805719
>posting an entire ff song
Please fuck off underagefag

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>>34803938
pigs eat human so why shouldn't I eat them?

checkmate vegan cuck

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>>34805566
Yay finally a vegan wearing pants made with animal products, in factiores made by animal products, while he is in a gym made by animal products using animal products and taking protein supplements that are made in factories built by animal products.

Also not a vegan all his life.

Tired of seeing these vegan shit memes.

Pigs arent that smart

>>34805770
dogs eat humans too

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>>34803938
Pigs are poor choice to argue for veganism/vegetarianism.

Pigs will eat anything. Pigs will eat (You), while you still live. They'd eat each other if they stood still long enough and didn't start eating right back at the one eating them.

That cute little piggy would eat you, your family and everyone you've ever known or came into contact with. And it would still be hungry after.

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>>34803938
Good job posting that online. Did you know without animal products their is no online, no net, no servers, no smart phones, none of those hipster things vegans use to try and act superior when they are hated by everyone accept those in their little cult.

>>34805745

Mentally underage but legally an adult who can rent a car without the underage fee.

>>34805829
To think, all he wanted was some oats.

I had dog before, it's not good but no weirder than eating rabbit or venison. Dog was much better than bear at least. I find it hard to believe anyone purposely killed bears except for sport or fur.

>>34805927
Dread the porcine uprising.

>>34803938
I would love to fuck hannah but she's such a cunt.

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>>34805927
brother...

>tfw no oats

>>34803938

Dogs are mans best friend.

They hunted with us and provided for us with more food than we'd get from eating the dog.

Whereas pigs/hogs/boars all just fucking sat in a field shitting and eating grass getting nice and fat and tasty.

One gives us an evolutionary reason not to eat it and to grow an emotional attachment to it and keep it alive.
The other evolved purely to taste good on a sandwich.

>>34806075
pigs gives us the delicious truffles

>>34806089
And those particular pigs get to live.

However, man hunted with dogs in tribal times. When we carried sticks and threw stones.

We only really started our relationship with cattle (like pigs) since the agricultural revolution when we first started farming. Since then, only specific cattle breeders had pigs, as opposed to fucking EVERYONE who had a dog.
This is why the bond with dogs is stronger.

More people have dogs, are used to dogs, have genetically inclined reasons for having dogs, than there are for pig-lovers. The relationshit with pigs is weaker, their meat tastier.

>>34803938
My brother once said you must devour what you love. I love pigs, but I also love sausages. I consider receiving their meat to be an act of love no homo

ribs tho

>>34806281
did you blow your brother tho

>>34803938
I'd eat a dog

>>34803938
piglets are cute as fuck but they stop being cute when they reach adult age. And they are usually assholes as well.

>>34805829
>we shouldn't care about pigs because they would eat us given the right circumstances

Okay.

We shouldn't care about people because if given the right circumstances they would eat us.

Case closed. We should eat people.

>>34804022
Farming (the thing that enables veganism) was much more important, without farming civilization wouldn't exist, without civilization you wouldn't even be posting here. Meat-eating is basically unnecessary at this point.

>>34803981
If you believe dog meat tastes like beef or chicken, then you a horribly mistaken. I would not recommend dining on your doggo.


>t. Malaysian

>>34806754
shitposting isn't necessary. civilization isn't necessary. as a matter of fact, the value of civilization is to allow as much unnecessariness as possible.
if anything, we should be eating koala, panda, giraffe, jaguar and penguin meat as much as possible, on top of the tonnage of regular flesh we devour on the daily

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>>34805797
>Hard shell

>>34805820
Won't stop me from eating a dog you fucking roastie, gtfo

I don't eat pork because it tastes like fatty shit anyway, and I hardly eat beef either. But I have no problem with eating chicken, my uncle who was a farmer told me when it rained he saw one open its mouth and keep it open until it drowned. They are fucking retarded animals.

>>34803938
>3 year olds

Maybe your 3 year olds.

>>34804355
Dogs can eat a diet of mostly grains and still be quite healthy. Dogs eating only meat is a myth. Most dog foods use potato, corn or rice as a base and just add some beef or chicken to it. Even wolves in the wild will eat an animal's intestines to get access to the semi digested grains and veggies and whatnot.

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>>34806684
We had a threesome with a pig and then we sacrificed the pig and made sausages from it and ate them

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I don't think you understand that i'd eat a dog too. I mean, it's just a fucking animal what's the big deal.

The only difference between the two is that some breeds of dog can prove themselves very loyal, and can help with hunting, and so forth where as a pig cannot under any circumstances.

I had a pet pig when I was 9 however I will continue to eat bacon until I die

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This "argument" has been said so many times already, there is simple reason why it's that way.
We are attached to cats and dogs simply beacuse they were useful for us, if you feed a dog he will help you hunt or he will defend you.
If you feed a cat he will kill rats for you.
At least it used to be this way, even though they're not as useful for us anymore, beacuse of all those centuries our species cooperated we developed more personal relationship with them.
Pigs, cows, chickens etc. however are useful for nothing but their meat and other products they produce, they aren't able to help you with anything but in case of pigs you can feed them literally anything and you will get meat and in case of other animals you can feed them and they will produce stuff for you like milk or wool.
Also, dogs and cats also eat meat making it pointless to keep them for food since you would need to feed it much more meat than you will get.

Tl;dr: Reason why we don't eat dogs instead of pigs is that they offer us much more service if they are alive.

>>34805829

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyEBXTL1Y3U

They will go thru bone like buttah!

>>34805797
Fucking hero those look pretty good. Dont know why i never thought of that.

>>34803938
I don't eat a dog because dogs are pets

China eats doggos

If I ever went to China I might eat a doggo

>>34805797
>Also not a vegan all his life.
virtually nobody is a vegan their whole life

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>>34804084
your high quality post deserves at least one reply anon

thank you for your contributions to 4chan today

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>>34803938
Tehe! Look at how silly their faces are in that picture! They must be so quirky and silly, tehe! I bet they're a total blast and super cool, like totally down to earth and super quirky, tehe!

Pork isn't good, so i agree.

>>34803938
I value dogs more than pigs. I like dogs more than pigs. That's why I'll continue to eat pigs and will continue to not eat dogs.

Welcome to life, you fucking tree hugging hippie faggot. It's not fair.

>>34803938
Dogs are scary and pigs are too, ops a faggot, fuck you.

>>34804084
Did you know pigs are about the most efficient human-eaters in nature? Thought that might be relevant information for you.

>>34803966
Emphasis on piglet. Those motherfuckers grow fucking huge and eat tons and destroy everything around them.

It's like every one of these anti-meat people has pictures of these cute little piglets, but you never see them grown up. I wonder what they do with their cute little piglet pets? Do they send them off to the happy piggy farm down the street when the big fucker starts eating all their furniture? Fuck no, they get rid of them to the first person who will take them or abandon them in the wild where they turn into wild hogs that destroy the landscape of the entire surrounding area. Then they go off and "save" another little piglet so they can take some more pictures.

>>34803938
I've never said I'd never eat a dog. I'd eat dog just to try it, if it was served to me and I knew that it was a dog beforehand. Same goes for cat too, and I love cats.

There's a difference between animals, and animals you've developed an emotional attachment to.

>implying i wouldnt eat dog if they sold it at the supermarket and it tasted good

>>34803938
But pigs are fucking delicious. dogs aren't bad but you can't compare it to pigs.

I wouldn't have a problem with eating dog it's just I wouldn't want to since they're supposedly awful tasting. Same logic with tilapia, modern pig breeds and chicken breast.
I mean the culture of my parents is one of the biggest consumers of dog meat in china today so it's cultural for me.

>>34803938
>its cute so we can't kill it!
this is one thing i despise about human nature
just like people feeling bad for killing mice that are all over in your house just because they are "omg fuzzy and small and cute squeee!"

>>34804084
Top fucking kek, well done anon.

>>34803938
baby pigs cum everywhere

That quote is bullshit. I'll eat any animal as long as it wasn't killed in some fucked up torturous way.

>>34803938
A few things,

>this profile was posted yesterday
>argument doesn't work since I have 0 compassion towards animals and don't find them cute at all
>a fully grown pig at a three year-old's level of intelligence is still stupid

>>34803938
I'd eat dog so a stinky farm animal that wallows in mud doesn't concern me. Loaded pictures. Obviously a cleaned up pigger. Real farm pig wouldn't ever look like that

>>34812974
>I'll eat any animal as long as it wasn't killed in some fucked up torturous way.

And therein lies the problem. The Chinese are almost proud of how they abuse the dog before its butchered. One of the ideas is that adrenaline makes the meat sweeter, so they torture them before they're butchered. The entire practice is disgusting and has probably forever tainted the idea of consuming dog meat.

>>34803938

But do they taste cute, too? I HAVE TO KNOW!

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>>34813162
The chinese are fucken fools for believing that nonsense because if anything, the fear they feel before death only ruins the quality of their meat.

>>34803938
But I don't eat pork. I eat beef, chicken, fish, and venison.

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>TFW 1488 ETHICAL VEGANARYANMASTERRACE TOOBEEONNEST
Best get (((you)))rselves gone, arabs, arabians, semites, muhhammadans, islamists, muslims, zionists, talmudists, hebrews, jews, israelites, israelis, and whatever the hell else (((ya))) otherworldly creatures call (((you)))rselves, before (((y)))'all get (((you)))r comeuppances.

vegans and vegetarians deserve death

meat eaters have a higher chance of getting a gf

>>34813325

They also think just about anything can help them with their pathetic baby dicks. From rare rhino horns to shark fins from sharks they throw back in to the ocean to drown.

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>>34813476
GRANDKEK
they also have a higher chance of getting heart related diseases which would shorten their lives likely leaving them with much less time to spend with said girlfriends overall

>>34813476
too bad most vegans are females because tee hee muh empathy

>>34813597
while vegans kill their reproductive system but not having nutrients required for sperm production

>>34803938

this girl again.

she's hot

They right that its not really morally consistent but im not sure people really care

>At school
>Hardcore vegan shoving her veganism down everyone's throat again like always
>comes to talk to me about the badness of eating meat and how you should not while in the middle of eating my meat loaf
>just look in her eyes and keep eating my meat without saying a word
>Stands there for a few seconds before she fucks off in silence

If there ever was an alpha moment in my life that was it. I bet she got damp down there even.

>>34813650
How exactly do you benefit by making up this unsubstantiated bullshit?

>>34813672
Researchers found that vegetarians have significantly poorer sperm concentration and motility than non-vegetarians. In a retrospective study, results from semen analyses conducted between 2009 and 2013 on 26 vegetarians, 5 vegans, and 443 non-vegetarians were compared. Vegetarians had significantly lower average sperm concentrations (51 million/milliliter vs. 70 million/milliliter) than the non-vegetarians and lower average sperm motility (33% vs. 58%)


it is you who is a heretic

>>34813672
also, enjoy killing your body with artificial chemicals that "provide the needed nutrients" while paying top dollar to pharmacist Mr Goldberg and becoming an effeminate nu-male

This just makes me want to eat pork because fuck vegans, but I don't like pork that much.

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>>34813532
Exactly.

That, and all sorts of other things, too. The array of animal-derived powders, potions, and other medicinal concoctions that they conjure up is simultaneously stupid and depressing in addition to their retarded worsening of their own air and sullying of their supply of food, not to mention all the other torturous debauchery that those slit-eyed wastes of space get up to on a regular basis.

>>34803938

It's funny how so many vegans use the cuteness argument. I'm a vegan myself and I dont give fuck if some animal is cute or ugly as fuck. I just dont wanna exploit animals, that's all.

REEEEEEEEE STOP EATING WHAT I DON'T LIKE REEEEEE YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO EAT THAT BECAUSE THAT IS MY OPINION REEE

Being vegan is a form of autism

I used to eat bacon in front of my pet pig all the time when I was young and he didn't seem to give a shit.

>>34804043
fantano is just chubby. he has bitch tits and doesn't seem to care judging by those tight t-shirts he's always wearing.
cover it up, fantano.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/we-asked-a-botanist-how-sure-science-is-that-plants-cant-feel-pain-302
http://gizmodo.com/nice-try-vegans-plants-can-actually-hear-themselves-b-1599749162
Where's your vegan God now?

Look, you have to consume life to continue living. In order to do that, you have to kill. Death always hurts. There are no painless suicide methods, take it from me.

>>34813862
well, to be fair, they're not eating plants, but rather their fruit, which are designed to be shed off and eaten by animals, to move the seeds around

still does not stop me from eating meat tho

>>34805797
why must white people ruin other people's food?

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>>34813862
I believe you, but I'm not taking it from you. wait you aren't...... you aren't a ghost are you????

>>34803938
I'm at least consistent, the whole moral outrage over dog meat just seems like cover for forcing westernization on people. Let them eat doggos if they want to ffs, there's plenty to go around. Primates are a different story, but not because they're smart or close to us or something: it's unsafe due to particularly nasty diseases, and most are endangered.

(This is not to say I'm okay with the poor treatment of dogs in that trade or poor treatment of animals raised for meat in general, that's a problem to be worked on)

Religiously aligning yourself to one type or food or another will be (rightfully) considered a mental illness in the not so far future. Keep being retarded in the meantime.

>>34813951
>well, to be fair, they're not eating plants

Except they do, you fucking retarded sperg.

>>34805566
Not a vegan or anti-vegan, but that nigga has a color in his face like he's been dead for 12 hours. Great example!

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Eating cows/pigs is no different from resorting to eating rats under harsh conditions. Humans are still savages and will lash out at anyone trying to deprive them of their jerky, much in the same way a dog lashes out if you try to pet it while it's eating.

If you must eat meat it is best to hunt and kill it yourself, processing facilities are a nest of misery and brutality. You're only poisoning your own body.

>>34803938
perhaps she is advocating eating dog

really activates ones almonds

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>>34813756
>IF I UTILIZE WANTONLY FANCIFUL VOCABULARY, MY POST WILL SEEM MORE SOPHISTICATED AND PROFOUND THAN IT TRULY IS

>>34814280
But I like chicken nuggets. And I can't hunt and kill a wild chicken nugget. I would even know how to get that nugget taste out of a rabbit or deer or squirrel or rather.

>>34814653
>I meant rat, obviously
t. phoneposter

>>34803966
and also delicious tbqh

>>34803938
bitch hasn't read animal farm

>>34803938
i would fuck that pig before its dinner on a plate

>>34803938
>pigs are smarter than 3 year olds

Stop this fucking bullshit

I have several memories from when I was 3 year old.

>>34814653
Chicken nuggets are poison to your body, you don't notice because you've been eating them for a long time. You are suffocating your body.

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are vegans actually furrys?

things are starting to make sense!

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>>34814719
humans are no different to animals.
all on the same food chain if we like it or not.
hunters and the hunted.

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>>34814719
holy shit this so true for most heavily processed foods
I once got someone to go on a brief fast from fastfood and they said that they felt terrible at first like a withdrawal from drugs then slowly started feeling so much better than before
then I got them to try eating only fresher organic sorts of stuff and they said that they suddenly felt better than ever one day after they did that for a few days
maybe it was a placebo type thing that happened but I told them that it probably wouldn't do anything good for them and at best wouldn't do anything bad for them and to be fair some people seem to have horrible bodily reactions to healthier diets strangely enough so I guess that makes them not really healthier diets at least not for those people anyway
they were better for it after all which is good but it's sad that more people don't care and/or have the self discipline to not be eating unhealthily all the time

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>>34813453
Ally, I...

>>34804107
I bet they are delicious and tender - need to ask some chinks.

>>34810895
I value pigs more than dogs, but I'd eat either. Especially your dog, faggot. It seems like a dumb sack of shit anyway. It's going in the pot desu

i love animals but i don't think killing them is unethical, only torturing them, that's why i want to start buying products from farms that treat their animal right when i have the money.

>>34803938
I would eat dog provided its well prepared and tasty

>>34813984
since when have tacos been sacred

they're fucking tacos

>>34803938
Pigs are cute.
But bacon are cuter.

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>>34816425

Very sickdark grimedge meme

>>34805566
That nigga looks photoshoped.

>>34803938
Because bacon.

>>34803938
I never understood this "animals are smarter than 3 year olds" bullshit. 3 year olds can speak languages fluently and can be taught the rudimentary level of almost any skill adults can do. Pigs of any age can't do that.

>>34804153
>Jews
>pork

Pick one

i actually thought about not eating pork.

but i can't keep making life harder, it's getting ridiculous at this point, making little changes, really all you're fucking doing is making life more complicated than it needs to be and i'm done doing that.

So pigs are smarter than black people?

>>34814757

Our only natural predators in this era are the schoolshooters (and cops, depending on where your skin stands on the fifty shades of grey spectrum).

>>34803938
I'd never eat a dog because chinks do it.
Also pigs are note cute.

I'd eat dog meat from a nameless dog, but I couldn't eat dog meat if I knew the dog I was eating. Same applies to pigs, chickens, cats, cows etc.

I wish dogmeat was available in grocery stores though. Variety is the spice of life

>>34803938
Pigs are not cute.
Also, that user name. I'd be happy to.

I'm trying to eat twice as much pork to balance the muslim invasion
I don't even like pork
Fuck shitskins

>>34803938
that pig makes me hungry.

I don't give a shit about how cute other beings are if they taste good and that's the only reason we keep them around, in the same way a superior being wouldn't care about us if we were worthless sacks of shit.

>>34804068
that pic is actually cute

>>34803938
I'd eat dogs too if they were tasty. I'm not a chink btw

>>34810675

Probably because it's an idiotic fad diet that's just as harmful to the environment as any other since it requires large scale transportation conglomerates to exist.

Feel free to explain how veganism/vegetarianism is cheaper than a traditional diet if I cook/prep an average of 2 hours a day.

>>34817825

Muslims don't eat pork because they hold them sacred they don't eat them because pigs used to be lousy with parasites.

They are literally laughing at you.

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>>34803938
Pigs are haram

>>34813756
>array
>concoctions
>conjure
>sullying
>debauchery
my brain can't handle all this intelligence