Got any leather shoes or football boots Nik ? I am a meat eater but I couldnt eat meat if the animal was previously a pet or indeed had suffered unnecessarily during its slaughter, yes some abattoirs are shown up, but are closed down for their practises, it is different.
I’m not vegetarian or vegan, but I am conscious of the implications of eating animals.
It’s silly for people to believe they have a moral high ground because the animal they’re eating has been brutally slaughtered in a ‘humane’ way. The animal is still hung upside down whilst their blood runs out of them into a gutter.
And the truth is nobody truly knows whether that specific animal they’re eating unnecessarily suffered or not. It could well be argued that them being killed at all is them having unnecessarily suffered.
It’s just funny that people’s animal welfare activism (and, in a similar vein, child sexual exploitation activism) starts and ends at the mention of Muslims. Kosher slaughter never gets a mention either, funnily enough.
I know that isn’t your argument here but that’s the one I’ve been responding to.
I am a believer in asylum in genuine cases, but am sure that for instance with the amount of Albanian young men coming in aren’t such seekers, hence they are now saying its because they are gay and persecuted rather than politically in danger. Some may be but far from a majority. For every one false asylum it is one less space for a genuine one.
I appreciate that, but it isn’t as simple as they professing that they’re gay and they’re immediately granted asylum. The government have guidelines and processes in which they assess asylum applicants and consider their claims.
Does that need to change/reformed? Maybe, but given the requirements as they are now, the research shows that the majority area genuine.
It is also wrong to think that people who have certain views on the future of the UK must be racist, some will be, some wont. We aren’t a racist country, we are a country with some racists in its population, name me a country that doesn’t have some people like that.
What I’m calling out as racist is what Alicante said; it was blatant racial stereotyping that’s not tolerated here (apparently).
Roblee’s responses were more considered, albeit still rather generalising against the majority for the sins of the minority.
If something’s racist then it’s right to call it out as such, in my opinion.