Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
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@jonny That's one way to get there, I suppose
@brad
All I could do is give him a hell ya -
@chris_e_simpson @jonny
He's sure it has meat not from cows in it.@FritzAdalis
@chris_e_simpson
It was unclear what the non meat material was, it was bad whatever it is though -
@jonny I'm so confused although sorta impressed with the 4d chess thinking. Why wouldn't a vegetarian eat a burger if they were sure it didn't have meat in it?
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny Well there's a point of view you aren't going to argue with, anyway
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny @troublewithwords He may have read 11/22/63 by Stephen King and thinks that's where the meat is coming from? That book changed me, too. But like, I'd still eat the burgers!
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny Despite stereotypes of vegetarians being preachy, over the years I've got many unsolicited comments from meat eaters telling me science "proves" vegetarianism is unhealthy/makes me a pussy/I'm missing out.
It helps to always have a smartarse answer to the inevitable question. Why don't you eat meat? Because I enjoy killing plants. Because animals are stealing all our food, we need to get it first. Because there's no such thing as mad broccoli disease. etc. etc.
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
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@jonny Despite stereotypes of vegetarians being preachy, over the years I've got many unsolicited comments from meat eaters telling me science "proves" vegetarianism is unhealthy/makes me a pussy/I'm missing out.
It helps to always have a smartarse answer to the inevitable question. Why don't you eat meat? Because I enjoy killing plants. Because animals are stealing all our food, we need to get it first. Because there's no such thing as mad broccoli disease. etc. etc.
@BoysenberryCider @jonny Although there is the explosive lettuce disease that's been in the news lately.
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny Two things:
1. Your driver greatly underestimates how many cows there are.
2. Most fast food burgers aren't 100% beef. I forget what the limit is, but the USDA permits up to a certain percentage of TVP added to beef before it has to be labelled differently. 20%? If I remember correctly, above 20%, it starts to no longer taste or feel like real meat. -
@jonny @troublewithwords He may have read 11/22/63 by Stephen King and thinks that's where the meat is coming from? That book changed me, too. But like, I'd still eat the burgers!
️@Lucaas @jonny @troublewithwords I feel like it's more likely to be a Soylent Green style of thing.
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny The funny thing is there actually has been some work to create "synthetic meats" where it's basically just meat grown in a vat and honestly I for one would be 100% ok with that. (Heck, it's about 100,000x more likely to be safe compared to real meat, would be more consistent and more controlled, wouldn't have certain gross features of real meat probably no one here wants to hear, and you don't get more zero cruelty than than just meat cells grown in a vat.) But of course that will never go over in this society.
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny I’ll smoke what he’s smoking.
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny It takes all kinds to make the world and human society the glorious mess that it is.
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny did you say, holy crap nobody ever thought to add it all up before.
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny he is not entirely wrong
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Uber driver had a reason for being vegetarian I hadn't heard before: "if you add up all the hamburgers people eat, there aren't enough cows for that, so meat must be fake"
@jonny …given his reasoning/understanding of things, how sure are you that he is accurately describing his own diet…?
“Oh but chicken wings don’t count”, that sorta thing.
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@jonny Two things:
1. Your driver greatly underestimates how many cows there are.
2. Most fast food burgers aren't 100% beef. I forget what the limit is, but the USDA permits up to a certain percentage of TVP added to beef before it has to be labelled differently. 20%? If I remember correctly, above 20%, it starts to no longer taste or feel like real meat.Alternatively for #1: he greatly underestimates how many burgers you can make from a single cow
