Vegansexuals

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/AAMB4/aamsz=300x44_MULTILINK/4147483a6009.html
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No sex, please, you're a carnivore.

A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme.

Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.

The co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, Annie Potts, said she coined the term after doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers".

Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical Consumers asked 157 people nationwide about everything from battery chickens to sexual preferences.

Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.

"It's a whole new thing – I have not come across it before," said Potts.

One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."

Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.

"I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance," she said.

Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.

She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.

She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.

"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," she said.

[Oban]

Geez, she could have just not swallowed and that would have solved the whole problem.

[Phildo]

This isn't the same Annie Potts that played Janine in Ghostbusters, is it?

[Sky]

Cruelty-free? Think of those poor fucking plants. Nobody gives a shit about the plants. If you really care, you goddamned walking plant carcasses, you'd just starve yourself so you don't kill another living thing and then we can get on with living without your ridiculous bullshit.

People worried about killing a chicken for food do not have real problems.

[cmlancas]

Give me a fucking break. They are the same god-damn amino-acids you fruitcakes. Seriously. Let's break it down on that level. It's not like I have tenderloin steaks for eyeballs and an eye-round for a pecker.


Just more people to be first to the wall, I suppose.

[Nevermore]

But you're eating their souls!!!11!11! 

[SnakeCharmer]

Crazy fuckin' Kiwis.

[WayAbvPar]

This is just fine with me. I wouldn't fuck most vegans with Ann Coulter's dick. Scrawny and bony ain't sexy.

[Engels]

Not to rush to the defense of vegans, WAP, but all the ones I know in the Seattle area and beyond, of which there are quite a few, tend to be on the chunky side. Don't tell anyone, but I harbor a theory that extemes in vegetarianism tend to be a cover for an eating disorder; it has nothing to do with teh poor animals.

[Riggswolfe]

Give me a fucking break. They are the same god-damn amino-acids you fruitcakes. Seriously. Let's break it down on that level. It's not like I have tenderloin steaks for eyeballs and an eye-round for a pecker.

It's a good thing too because I'd eat them!

[schild]

I hate hippies so much.

[cmlancas]

The more I live, the more I realize I just hate people. It isn't hippies, or right-wingers, or left-wingers, or idiots, or people who can't drive. It's just people.

[schild]

I describe all people I hate as hippies. Because 90% of the time, I hate them for their bizarre sexual, political, or environmental views. Which is to say, they're probably all  hippies.

[Engels]

Well, think of the hippies when watching this

[cmlancas]

I describe all people I hate as hippies. Because 90% of the time, I hate them for their bizarre sexual, political, or environmental views. Which is to say, they're probably all  hippies.

I am very okay with this. I like your definition.

[Signe]

I thought this was a thread about having sex with fruits and vegetables.  What a disappointment. 

[cmlancas]

Since it isn't, we can just do this instead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areyUfCNFxY

[Ookii]

I describe all people I hate as hippies.

What about the 'canadians'?

[schild]

I describe all people I hate as hippies.

What about the 'canadians'?

I don't hate canadians. Or "canadians." I just hate stupid motherfuckers.

[cmlancas]

I describe all people I hate as hippies.

What about the 'canadians'?

I don't hate canadians. Or "canadians." I just hate stupid motherfuckers hippies.

[Furiously]

While I am included to agree with WAP's sentiments. I also think Buckcherry said it best...

Hey - You're crazy bitch
But you fuck so good, I'm on top of it

[Nevermore]

I thought this was a thread about having sex with fruits and vegetables.  What a disappointment. 

Wow, I bet that pineapple would hurt... 

[Nebu]

Give me a fucking break. They are the same god-damn amino-acids you fruitcakes. Seriously. Let's break it down on that level. It's not like I have tenderloin steaks for eyeballs and an eye-round for a pecker.

For many vegans it's not about biochemical content, but rather brain development that determines what they eat.  Some less strict vegetarians will often eat some seafood and shellfish as it has little more than a midbrain.  If people want to be selective in what they eat that's fine with me.  I'm not so insecure as to let their opinions bother me.    

[Paelos]

I just want to eat a Vegan one day for the irony.

[Lantyssa]

There is a group like this who marches in the Pride Parade here every year.

Studies have shown plants can feel pain, and some can even recognize siblings.  Their plant eating ways are devastating vegetable families!  Think of the saplings!

Give me a fucking break. They are the same god-damn amino-acids you fruitcakes. Seriously. Let's break it down on that level. It's not like I have tenderloin steaks for eyeballs and an eye-round for a pecker.

It's a good thing too because I'd eat them!

You'd want his meat!?

[cmlancas]

I see your chasm, and raise you one Mythbusters!


That episode was hilarious :D

[HaemishM]

There is a group like this who marches in the Pride Parade here every year.

Studies have shown plants can feel pain, and some can even recognize siblings.  Their plant eating ways are devastating vegetable families!  Think of the saplings!

These are the cries of the carrots! THE CARROTS! For you see, Brother Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day. And to the carrots, it is the APOCALYPSE!

[Daeven]

Those bastards! They ate Sprout!

[Lantyssa]

Fear the Reaper!

[Trippy]

Cruelty-free? Think of those poor fucking plants. Nobody gives a shit about the plants. If you really care, you goddamned walking plant carcasses, you'd just starve yourself so you don't kill another living thing and then we can get on with living without your ridiculous bullshit.

Actually there are people who say they only eat fruits because those evolved/are meant to be eaten (as their means of seed dispersion). Of course in reality there would be no way to survive just eating fruit so they must supplement that with other stuff on the side/sly.

[Merusk]

I just want to eat a Vegan one day for the irony.

When angry.bob's foretold revolution comes, you just might get that chance!  :-D

[Oban]

They smell funny, doubt they would taste good.

[schild]

Yea, that's the other thing. I've only been in close proximity once for an extended period of time. She smelled like a devil's shit.

[Riggswolfe]

There is a group like this who marches in the Pride Parade here every year.

Studies have shown plants can feel pain, and some can even recognize siblings.  Their plant eating ways are devastating vegetable families!  Think of the saplings!

How the hell do you figure out a plant can recognize "siblings"? Or feel pain? It's not like you can hook it up to an EKG is it?

Give me a fucking break. They are the same god-damn amino-acids you fruitcakes. Seriously. Let's break it down on that level. It's not like I have tenderloin steaks for eyeballs and an eye-round for a pecker.

It's a good thing too because I'd eat them!

You'd want his meat!?

If it was made of steak yes. Hell, if any of you stay still too long you may end up on my plate if I'm hungry enough.

[cmlancas]

There is a group like this who marches in the Pride Parade here every year.

Studies have shown plants can feel pain, and some can even recognize siblings.  Their plant eating ways are devastating vegetable families!  Think of the saplings!

How the hell do you figure out a plant can recognize "siblings"? Or feel pain? It's not like you can hook it up to an EKG is it?

Give me a fucking break. They are the same god-damn amino-acids you fruitcakes. Seriously. Let's break it down on that level. It's not like I have tenderloin steaks for eyeballs and an eye-round for a pecker.

It's a good thing too because I'd eat them!

You'd want his meat!?

If it was made of steak yes. Hell, if any of you stay still too long you may end up on my plate if I'm hungry enough.

You fell into the chasm. I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be green. If not, there is an episode of Mythbusters solely about ESP and the experiments with a polygraph on plants.