Black male: watermelon. OH MY GOD SO RACIST. See, it is racist. And if it's too racist to be 'joked' about for one group, no race/gender group should be 'joked' about.

Agreed! The medical practitioner that linked autism and vaccines was found to have his own greedy interests in casting a shadow on vaccinations, he fabricated the whole argument.

Absolutely. You can't have a well rounded diet without meat, sorry, but you just can't. No one would be able to be vegan a hundred years ago (and be healthy at the same time), because we didn't have access to the vitamins/proteins that people get in a shot or a pill. Yeah, so 'natural'. If you want to be vegan, fine, but don't expose your child to crippling hunger and deficiencies in their diet, I've also heard of animals that have died because their owners refused to feed them meat.

People still eat dairy cattle, it just goes into lower quality mince and such.

I don't hate Jenny at all, I think it's to be expected that someone who's been sexually abused by their father since an incredibly young age will make a lot of bad decisions.

Personally wish there was no 'minority' tag. Nowhere in life did you sign a form that says 'life will be fair'. You're born where you are and either you make the most of it, or you don't. Yes, for some it's a heck of a lot harder, but that doesn't make it impossible. That's just life.

As much as I agree the bears shouldn't be in captivity (in an entertainment setting), the horses wouldn't be terrified. They'd learn that the bears aren't going to hurt them, and relax, just like they do around humans (we are predators as well after all).

I would encourage you to leave the city and go and actually look at farm animals before trying to tell someone that these are sheep.

This isn't a menu, you don't get to order.

Sure, they are free to come to Australia if they'd like. What they're not free to do is discriminate based on the fact that someone wasn't lucky enough to be born into a bilingual family. People should be free to be employed at whichever store they apply for (as long as their attitude and skills are appropriate, because that's something you can change). Blocking English-only speakers (as is to be expected seeing as it's our official language) is racist and discriminatory.

Well, murder, rape, slavery etc have no benefit to anyone. The use of animals for nourishment, tools, medicine, clothing, really does a lot more benefit than most people realise. Look up a list of what animal products are used for, and you'll see just how important they are to us. If we all started to eat just crops, the land wouldn't be able to sustain us. As well as that, it would mean major destruction of habitat for native animals, increased co2 emissions from the mass production, exponentially increased chemical run-off (organic farming uses worse concoctions to kill off bugs, so don't tell me that's an option), and starvation for those who suddenly wouldn't be able to eat meat, which in third world countries is the only thing keeping people going (if they're able to have it at all).

It absolutely is instinct to eat meat. If you're out there, surviving on bare minimum instead of surviving within a supermarket, that deer would start to look mighty tempting. You're not tempted because you've never had to live in difficult conditions, as soon as you haven't eaten for a week, even bugs will start to look tasty, your human instinct knows you need that protein to survive.

No, I don't buy that. If people have come to an English speaking country, and are living here as a citizen, then the people the employ should not be required to speak any other language than English. That is blatant discrimination. Bakeries, restaurants etc do not have foreign markets. Fair enough supply writing on menus or pamphlets that's in a different language for customers that are visiting, but if you live in Australia you're not supposed to discriminate on race, culture etc. Put it this way, if an English speaker said they wouldn't employ an Asian because they speak more than just one language, oh boy they'd get shut down real fast, and everyone would be saying how racist Australians are.

Then you're the best kind of vegetarian there is :P I'll just point out, 'factory farming' is a lot less common than PETA and Animals Australia etc make it out to be, and in a lot of cases actually doesn't stress the animals out. For instance, dairies have copped a lot of flack because the cattle don't naturally get milked, or they're 'bred constantly for milk'. As someone who has worked on dairies, the cattle could not be more relaxed, they're carefully monitored when being selected for breeding and allowed plenty of time to recover etc. If you (or anyone else) is really concerned, literally ring farms, most of the time people are more than happy to let people look around and explain what's happening, the behaviour of animals, what to look for in healthy animals etc.

But see, if someone spends a long time saying that animals have souls and that they're equals etc, then eats one because it's necessary, they're admitting that human instinct, and a big part of humanity, revolves around the killing and consumption of animals. Which it does.

As well as makes up stories about how bad animal products are for you and how if we all ate only vegan diets then the environment would be better. News flash, there's not enough arable land in the entire world to deal with that kind of farming.

See I'm happy you've stated your opinion nicely, and hopefully I can do the same too. But, way I see it, as soon as you take yourself away from the comforts of modern life, if you were marooned on an island or lost in the woods, you immediately get 'back to nature' and go into survival mode. That's when people realise that we're equal to animals, which means they're fair game. They're prey, we're predators, that's just the nature of these things. I'd be more than happy to go back to hunter/gatherer existence to be honest, and I feel the only reason why people think that we shouldn't eat animals when we get down to it, is because they've forgotten their own humanity. Would be cool to hear your opinion on my thoughts too.

You also hear that farmers mistreat and hate their animals, but that's not true either. Just cause PETA (and similar) say it, doesn't make it so.

There's this magical function that cameras have called the 'zoom' function. Ha, but these guys are mostly pretty docile. Not quite so scary as what the info makes them out to be, although I still wouldn't want to pet one.

Not in the sense that people have best friends. They will have another cow that is the same 'rank' in the herd that they can hang around with, and can become anxious if separated but if separated very long they'll forget about them and find another cow of the same ranking.