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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

yewberry

(6,530 posts) Sat Nov 9, 2013, 12:24 AM Nov 2013

What's up with the spate of peta threads in GD? [View all]

Anyone aware of any particular reason for it?

Peta threads bring me down... somehow, there's always a point at which the topic turns into "vegans are a bunch of extremist/evangelical/humorless/biology-denying assholes people eating tasty animals won't someone please think of the carrots" festivities.

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What's up with the spate of peta threads in GD? [View all] yewberry Nov 2013 OP

..and here I thought it was Feta. I really like Feta - a great cheese for pizza! NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #1

It is hard to get worked up about sheep-milk cheese, for sure. yewberry Nov 2013 #2

Seattle is tough - we lived there in 1983 (U WA post doc) - my daughter NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #3

Husky here, too. yewberry Nov 2013 #4

I am sure I will get there a few times - once my tomato book comes out in Dec 2014, NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #5

Yeah, we still have a few bookstores. yewberry Nov 2013 #7

In Portland you ought to see if you can do an event at Powell's. LeftyMom Nov 2013 #10

yes, we love Powell's - definitely will be on my target list! NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #11

Because Thanksgiving. LeftyMom Nov 2013 #6

You're probably right. yewberry Nov 2013 #8

Yep, that was my mom. LeftyMom Nov 2013 #9

My mom's the same way. yewberry Nov 2013 #12