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<blockquote data-quote="Frankie" data-source="post: 403318" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Probably. But if we set back and ignore them, they think they've got an open road.</p><p></p><p>I never heard of a vegan until about three years ago when they literally attacked the Ranchers.net site. <em>Time</em> magazine had done an article on vegetarians, mentioned the site and quoted the owner (not Macon at the time) of the site. It seems like the motto was "<em>Beef - it makes women more beautiful, men stronger, and kids smarter."</em> The vegans just about shut down the site, calling us murders, fat, old, whatever insult they could come up with. Jodie started a board at the site just for veg discussions to get them off the Bull Session board. Most of us were just shocked that they were so ignorant. Since they were mostly kids, we tried to educate them and explain how things work, but they weren't interested. Then a couple of non-ranchers who had been posting on anti-vegan sites for quite a while turned up and showed the rest of us how to deal with vegans. Eventually we just wore then down and they stopped posting there. Macon didn't even put up a veg board when he took the site over. Several of us started posting on pro-vegan sites, explaining how cattle don't live in small cages, that beef is more nutritious than grain, that it can't possibly take 40 lbs of grain to produce one pound of beef or you couldn't buy ground beef for less than a pound of soybeans, that there are more forests in the US today than 40 years ago...... We refuted most of their prized excuses to give up meat. Today there are probably one third as many vegan boards online as there was back then and most of them are not very active. The ones that are still around make you register so they can block you if you don't toe the party line. I think it's important to stay ahead of these flakes. Most of them are kids, easily lead and mislead. If we ignore the lies and misrepresentations on the net aimed at them, we could be in for trouble in the future. Just my take....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frankie, post: 403318, member: 13"] Probably. But if we set back and ignore them, they think they've got an open road. I never heard of a vegan until about three years ago when they literally attacked the Ranchers.net site. [i]Time[/i] magazine had done an article on vegetarians, mentioned the site and quoted the owner (not Macon at the time) of the site. It seems like the motto was "[i]Beef - it makes women more beautiful, men stronger, and kids smarter."[/i] The vegans just about shut down the site, calling us murders, fat, old, whatever insult they could come up with. Jodie started a board at the site just for veg discussions to get them off the Bull Session board. Most of us were just shocked that they were so ignorant. Since they were mostly kids, we tried to educate them and explain how things work, but they weren't interested. Then a couple of non-ranchers who had been posting on anti-vegan sites for quite a while turned up and showed the rest of us how to deal with vegans. Eventually we just wore then down and they stopped posting there. Macon didn't even put up a veg board when he took the site over. Several of us started posting on pro-vegan sites, explaining how cattle don't live in small cages, that beef is more nutritious than grain, that it can't possibly take 40 lbs of grain to produce one pound of beef or you couldn't buy ground beef for less than a pound of soybeans, that there are more forests in the US today than 40 years ago...... We refuted most of their prized excuses to give up meat. Today there are probably one third as many vegan boards online as there was back then and most of them are not very active. The ones that are still around make you register so they can block you if you don't toe the party line. I think it's important to stay ahead of these flakes. Most of them are kids, easily lead and mislead. If we ignore the lies and misrepresentations on the net aimed at them, we could be in for trouble in the future. Just my take.... [/QUOTE]
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