"Rising" - incentive to become a vegitarian?

[ylai]

I am also wondering whether those people in the Atlantis team do consider becoming vegitarians, after their "experience"...

[Icemancmd]

Only Major Shepperd saw it happening.

[ylai]

Well, although it is not quite clear how much Lt. Ford have seen, he should at least haven seen the body of Col. Sumner.

[Anthro Girl]

Okay, I'm confused. Why would this be an incentive to not eat meat?

[ylai]

Okay, I'm confused. Why would this be an incentive to not eat meat?

Well. Isn't their much similarity to the Wraiths, that: "All living things must eat, in this I'm sure we are similar. [...] There we are quite the similar, Col. Sumner, we don't require our food to agree with us." And in certain area in the world, people even eat rather intelligent mammals.

[Anthro Girl]

Hmmm...(maybe unnecessary spoiler space for Rising)






Nope. Sorry. Still don't follow you. I still don't see how anything the Wraith do or say would be an incentive to become a vegetarian...as if that would help the humans' predicament. Unless, of course, the Wraith do not like the taste of herbivores. Then, by all means, pass the salad!

Granted, meat might not be widely available in the Atlantis world, but that's another issue entirely.

[uknesvuinng]

Well. Isn't their much similarity to the Wraiths, that: "All living things must eat, in this I'm sure we are similar. [...] There we are quite the similar, Col. Sumner, we don't require our food to agree with us." And in certain area in the world, people even eat rather intelligent mammals.

I'll let you in on a little known biological secret, plants are living too . Unless we start eating some sythesized nutrient paste (and do so without destroying anything living in the process, including eliminating any bacteria), something will always die for us to survive. If you let what the Wraith say affect you, it's time to stop eating all together and starve to death.

[Icemancmd]

Thats a good question to followup....

Where are all the people going to get food from??????????????????

[MetZger]

Well i don't think that eating an animal and eating an intelligent being is the same thing. I think that was what O'Neill was trying to explain in the episode "Pretense".

[David85]

Even if they became vegitarians they would still have to eat live things and we still would be "similar".

[Selmak]

And most plants are alive for weeks after being picked... so we eat them alive... just like the Wraith eat(suck life) when we are alive.

[Stargate Agent]

As I tell all vegetarians I meet in life.

I am not a Vegetarian because I love animals

If you are a Vegetarian you hate plants!


MMMMMM STEAK

[Roatbaum]

I think the folks in Atlantis are going to become seafood lovers. But the wraith would inspire me to pursue a very dynamic dental health program.

[Whitster]

The thing is plant's may have to die to feed a vegitarian, but as those plants lack a CNS(except maybe brocolli) they don't fear their death or feel pain during it like animals. Also since the human race thinks it's so advanced now and we know we can survivie on a vegitarian diet yet we still eat meat. I can't see us becoming the fith race with that attitude.

[VirtualCLD]

Well. Isn't their much similarity to the Wraiths, that: "All living things must eat, in this I'm sure we are similar. [...] There we are quite the similar, Col. Sumner, we don't require our food to agree with us." And in certain area in the world, people even eat rather intelligent mammals.

I believe the quote was:
"There we are quite disimilar, Col. Sumner, we don't require our food to agree with us."


I also have my own "vegetarian" quote:
"Save a cow, eat a vegetarian!" HoweverI would never eat a sentient animal, but I have no problem with other animals. Even after seeing the Wraith, I just consider it survival of the fittest.