Here are some very bad, yet strangely common, arguments against vegetarianism:
1. “But other animals eat each other!”
2. “We’re at the top of the food chain!”
3. “How do you know plants don’t feel pain?”
I’m not saying there aren’t good arguments against it, but you have to wonder why the really bad ones come up so often.
How about this “pro-vegetarian” argument:
“I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals; I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
All I’m saying is that you get super mega double props from me for your awesome Simpsons quotation! “Lisa the Vegetarian” is my all-time favourite episode 🙂
I love — love! — that Troy McClure video.
LISA: You can’t expect us to swallow that tripe?
SKINNER: Now, courtesy of the meat counsil, please help yourself to this tripe!
CLASSIC.
Peace,
Eric
Actually, I think the first argument is a pretty good foil for the sort who complain of “speciesism.” Holding humans to a higher ethical standard, in itself, carries an implicit “speciesism”–doesn’t it?
On a more juvenile level, I always wanted to get a bumper sticker reading “So was Hitler–think about THAT!”
A Thinking Reed 
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