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(Foolocracy.com) Amusing Montana gubernatorial candidate is rumored to be ... GASP ... a vegetarian. Them's fightin' words in cattle country   (foolocracy.com) divider line 86
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LordOfThePings [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 04:56:42 PM  
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Theological Farker 2008-10-19 05:01:07 PM  
So they're afraid to excercise their God given superiority over their dominion, and you want to give them the highest office in your state?

 
T.M.S. [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:01:23 PM  
More mad cow disease for you all is the way I look at it.

Good luck with that.

 
mainstreet62 [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:01:43 PM  
That has to be false. Everyone knows that Republicans will be forced to EABODs on Election Day

 
The Great EZE [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:02:04 PM  
Damn. He'd have better luck having "ties" to a "domestic terrorist".

 
Etchy333 [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:03:57 PM  
Theological Farker: So they're afraid to excercise their God given superiority over their dominion, and you want to give them the highest office in your state?

Eating vegetables requires farming, which is also "exercising superiority blah blah blah". Also, if your doctor says, "cut out the red meat," are you going to just die?

I too, like a good steak, but c'mon.

 
sinanju 2008-10-19 05:06:44 PM  
Did he serve on the board of charity with a vegetarian? 'cause even if the patron of the charity was a meat eater, apparently, sitting within a few chairs of a veggie in only a few meetings is likely to make you a veggie.

 
Testiclaw 2008-10-19 05:07:51 PM  
Etchy333: Also, if your doctor says, "cut out the red meat," are you going to just die?

If I was ever in that spot, I'd still eat salmon, tuna, bass, etc.

I like steak, venison and buffalo, but don't care if others don't.

/Montanan.

 
worlddan 2008-10-19 05:07:53 PM  
Listen up brothers and sisters,
come hear my desperate tale.
I speak of our friends of nature,
trapped in the dirt like a jail.

Vegetables live in oppression,
served on our tables each night.
This killing of veggies is madness,
I say we take up the fight.

Salads are only for murderers,
coleslaw's a fascist regime.
Don't think that they don't have feelings,
just cause a radish can't scream.

Chorus:
I've heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)
Carrot juice constitutes murder (and that's a real crime)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables go)
It's time to stop all this gardening (it's dirty as hell)
Let's call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade is a spade)

 
lamenta3 2008-10-19 05:10:34 PM  
Now I want steak. Might be on the menu for dinner tonight.

 
Theological Farker 2008-10-19 05:15:51 PM  
Etchy333: "cut out the red meat,"

*faints*

 
bingo the psych-o 2008-10-19 05:18:02 PM  
mainstreet62: That has to be false. Everyone knows that Republicans will be forced to EABODs on Election Day

Eat A Bowl Of Daikons? That's an awful lot of radish right there.

 
Gangway Fathead 2008-10-19 05:18:42 PM  
I think of all the things we've politicized in America, dietary choice is my most favoritest of all.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:22:06 PM  
vegetarians taste better

www.independent.co.uk

 
nerf herder 2008-10-19 05:22:08 PM  
in related news, gubernatorial is a funny word.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:23:46 PM  
nerf herder: in related news, gubernatorial is a funny word.

only if you're scruffy

 
Madame Ovary 2008-10-19 05:26:14 PM  
Seriously, meat producers out West get pissed about this. In the early 1990s, I was in the Nebraska panhandle listening to an interview of a vegetarian on the radio. The interview ended abruptly when so many Nebraskans called the radio station complaining about the program. Interviewing vegetarians on the radio insults the people in the area that depend on ranching/cattle for a living. Corrupts their children too.

 
FormlessOne 2008-10-19 05:28:54 PM  
Madame Ovary: Seriously, meat producers out West get pissed about this. In the early 1990s, I was in the Nebraska panhandle listening to an interview of a vegetarian on the radio. The interview ended abruptly when so many Nebraskans called the radio station complaining about the program. Interviewing vegetarians on the radio insults the people in the area that depend on ranching/cattle for a living. Corrupts their children too.

Feh. Are we so easily led by others that we don't dare expose our children to outside influences, lest they develop thoughts of their own? Are we merely a nation of catt...waitaminute...

 
Im_a_mavricky_mavrick 2008-10-19 05:29:28 PM  
HE'S A QUEER!!!!!!

 
Bill Frist 2008-10-19 05:30:24 PM  
You know who else was a vegetarian....

 
Lawnchair 2008-10-19 05:30:26 PM  
Do lima bean producers go in a tizzy when you say, "gee, I don't eat them"? Do vintners call for boycotts of people who don't like wine and say "well, you don't actually have to drink wine to live"? Garlic farmers? Kumquat pickers? Anyone?

 
bacccc 2008-10-19 05:30:43 PM  
Next time they'll call him Arab.

/then McCain will say .... NO - he's not a stinking Arab ... he's instead a good man
//ready for the world to explode yet?
///too many tards to count

 
Bill Frist 2008-10-19 05:31:35 PM  
Lawnchair: Do lima bean producers go in a tizzy when you say, "gee, I don't eat them"? Do vintners call for boycotts of people who don't like wine and say "well, you don't actually have to drink wine to live"? Garlic farmers? Kumquat pickers? Anyone?

If there was a sparsely populated state where Garlic farming was a huge industry and an anti-garlic guy ran for gov, yes I think they would get in a tizzy...

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:32:28 PM  
Bill Frist: You know who else was a vegetarian....

Gandhi?

 
Sluggard Stone 2008-10-19 05:35:17 PM  
Now that is just mean.

 
ne2d [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:36:41 PM  
Lawnchair: Do lima bean producers go in a tizzy when you say, "gee, I don't eat them"? Do vintners call for boycotts of people who don't like wine and say "well, you don't actually have to drink wine to live"? Garlic farmers? Kumquat pickers? Anyone?

You don't remember when George Bush said he didn't like broccoli?

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:41:02 PM  
ne2d: Lawnchair: Do lima bean producers go in a tizzy when you say, "gee, I don't eat them"? Do vintners call for boycotts of people who don't like wine and say "well, you don't actually have to drink wine to live"? Garlic farmers? Kumquat pickers? Anyone?

You don't remember when George Bush said he didn't like broccoli?


that's one of the few things he got right.

 
toonz 2008-10-19 05:50:35 PM  
so are cattle.

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 05:53:44 PM  
He's not a vegetarian because he loves animals. He's a vegetarian because he hates plants.

 
msheda 2008-10-19 05:56:44 PM  
I'm a vagiterian... damn.. I guess that means I can't run for congress.

 
sadbad 2008-10-19 06:00:15 PM  
Am I the only one that thinks it's hilarious that he was "disgusted" by the rumor that he's a vegetarian?

I usually just thought larger society thought we were kind of strange; I've never been called disgusting over it.

 
Swat a Gadfly 2008-10-19 06:02:04 PM  
Thank you Bucky Katt. I will try to eat more vegetarians. In fact, I'd like to cultivate a few.

 
FormlessOne 2008-10-19 06:10:36 PM  
Bill Frist: If there was a sparsely populated state where Garlic farming was a huge industry and an anti-garlic guy ran for gov, yes I think they would get in a tizzy...

Why? The only reason I could see them getting in a tizzy is if garlic farmers had a preferential arrangement of some form under a pro-garlic governor - one that could be jeopardized under an anti-garlic governor.

It's not like cattle farmers have to worry about that, though, right?

 
Binary Dragon 2008-10-19 06:11:24 PM  
As a vegan I find myself disgusted by the majority of the content in this thread. I'm not going to judge someone for being an omnivore or not, but it sure would be nice if people could just act in a way where I don't feel ashamed to share the planet with them.

 
No Such Agency 2008-10-19 06:16:17 PM  
Honestly, people. We have CANINE TEETH for a farking reason. Vegetarians kind of embarrass me, they're usually whining about how hard it is to get enough niacin or something in their diet, when there's a reeeealy simple solution. Eat what we're BORN to eat. I don't give a crap if it's "cage free" organic macro-biotic chicken, but eat some damn meat and STFU. And don't you dare make a fuss about your kids getting offered some meat, or I swear I'll call the CAS.

 
ilambiquated 2008-10-19 06:19:07 PM  
I think the economics of this is interesting. Why insist on consuming yourself what you grow to sell at a profit?

No wonder we have so much foreign debt. You'll find a very different attitude towards export-oriented industries in some other parts of the world.

 
darthbandon 2008-10-19 06:20:24 PM  
I am a veggie and a support this message.

 
ilambiquated 2008-10-19 06:21:10 PM  
No Such Agency: Eat what we're BORN to eat.

Why are all these countless billions born, only to suffer and die?
-Kilgore Trout

The same argument is often used against homosexuality.

 
unyon [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 06:21:25 PM  
worlddan: Listen up brothers and sisters,
come hear my desperate tale.
I speak of our friends of nature,
trapped in the dirt like a jail.

Vegetables live in oppression,
served on our tables each night.
This killing of veggies is madness,
I say we take up the fight.

Salads are only for murderers,
coleslaw's a fascist regime.
Don't think that they don't have feelings,
just cause a radish can't scream.

Chorus:
I've heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)
Carrot juice constitutes murder (and that's a real crime)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables go)
It's time to stop all this gardening (it's dirty as hell)
Let's call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade is a spade)


Good call. Here's the video goodness. (new window)

 
brubakan 2008-10-19 06:26:11 PM  
I made the switch to veggie a year ago and have managed to loose 40 unwanted pounds! I feel better and I am saving a shiat ton of money.

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 06:28:48 PM  
No Such Agency: Honestly, people. We have CANINE TEETH for a farking reason.

I don't care, I'm still not eating dogs.

/unless there is mustard involved.

 
msheda 2008-10-19 06:31:35 PM  
Snarfangel: No Such Agency: Honestly, people. We have CANINE TEETH for a farking reason.

I don't care, I'm still not eating dogs.

/unless there is mustard involved.


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Gangway Fathead 2008-10-19 06:33:16 PM  
ilambiquated: I think the economics of this is interesting. Why insist on consuming yourself what you grow to sell at a profit?



Absolutely, no good dealer gets high on his own supply.

 
RemyDuron 2008-10-19 06:38:45 PM  
My girlfriend is a vegetarian. I can understand her being one though. Food means nothing to her, it gives her very little pleasure. Food is like second to sex for me, and limiting it for some questionable moral concerns seems silly. Hell, if human being was sold in the supermarket, I'd try it in a heartbeat. If it was good I'd eat it regularly.

 
His Mexcellency 2008-10-19 06:40:13 PM  
anti-garlic governor?

So Dracula wouldn't get very far in this land of garlic.


\Veggie over a year.
\\no dietary issues
\\\Don't care what you eat

 
Bill Frist 2008-10-19 06:42:21 PM  
Gangway Fathead: Absolutely, no good dealer gets high on his own supply.

that is for a different reason...

 
GeeksAreMyPeeps 2008-10-19 06:49:10 PM  
I firmly support the rights of vegetarians to leave more meat for me.

Bucky Katt: vegetarians taste better

That pic makes me want to eat a salad right now.

toonz: so are cattle.

You might want to read up on the practices of meat producers in the U.S.

 
Doak 2008-10-19 06:55:08 PM  
No Such Agency: Honestly, people. We have CANINE TEETH for a farking reason. Vegetarians kind of embarrass me, they're usually whining about how hard it is to get enough niacin or something in their diet, when there's a reeeealy simple solution. Eat what we're BORN to eat. I don't give a crap if it's "cage free" organic macro-biotic chicken, but eat some damn meat and STFU. And don't you dare make a fuss about your kids getting offered some meat, or I swear I'll call the CAS.

We were also born with brains and moral compasses for a reason too. Now our ancestors might not really have a choice in what they ate. They hunted and gathered what they could in the name of survival. In the modern era meat is entirely unnecessary and cruel, because we have a choice to not eat it. And while you can continue eating it if you want, you shouldn't begrudge any man for deciding not to.

 
Bergyd 2008-10-19 06:56:48 PM  
my girlfriend is vegetarian.

i hate most fruits and vegetables.

it works out.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-10-19 06:58:24 PM  
No Such Agency: Honestly, people. We have CANINE TEETH for a farking reason. V

Yes, our mighty meat destroying teeth really are major carnivore-class

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www.bbc.co.uk

 
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