i love your website. [edited]
Heatem Response: Thanks for your kind feedback.... Unfortunately only the first four words of it were fit to print.... but we love you too.
I have recently become vegetarian and my two year plan, at this point in my life, is to eventually become vegan. I have many personal reasons for doing so and I strongly believe it is the right choice. I think PETA is a life saver (even though I don't blindly conform to their tactics) and I am thankful they have so much information posted on their site. (My boyfriend eats his steak rare to medium rare btw)
That being said I'd like to say that I like your site. It's a little crass, a little in your face, and somewhat distasteful at times but it's fairly well done. It's intelligent, it's comical, it's opinionated and a bit emotional (mail bag anyone?) I really like that.
Anyways, I just thought I'd share. I don't hate meat eaters.
Heatem Response: HEY look at that! Reasoned and fair feedback. We thank you for your kind words. You also seem to have gotten the point that HEATEM does not hate vegetarians or vegans simply because they choose not to eat meat. It's getting persecuted for private eating habits that we have problems with. HEATEM likes people who just eat what they want to eat and leave it at that, no matter what's on thier plate. As far as I am concerned, you'd be more than welcome at the next (first) HEATEM banquet and I will personally serve you vegetables.
Haha you're doing the same shit as peta do, they're saying to go vegan and you're saying to eat meat... And after you're saying that you don't like when people tell you what to do? you're not better than another.
Heatem Response: HEATEM represents the freedom to eat as one chooses.
hope you die of colon cancer you deserve it!! and get your self a healthy case of aids while your at it!!
For me, why I'm a vegan is pretty simple. Eating meat is no longer necessary, we can survive perfectly healthily on a diet of plants along with bacterium for b12. No sentient being need be directly hurt and my diet causes as little harm as possible. (I am aware of a few being indirectly hurt in crop harvesting, but certainly not so many as need to be hurt in order for even more plants to be processed through another animal which is then also eaten, so there's still a far smaller mortality rate)
I am completely at a loss to understand why otherwise compassionate people would choose to cause unnecessary and completely avoidable suffering to animals... just for the sake of taste?? That is the only reason I can deduce, and it seems selfish as well as naive, considering the many delicious vegan food options out there which many of you probably haven't even tried. Have a heart and open your minds, and your palates!
Heatem Response: mmmmmmm..... Bacteeeeeriummmm
I just wanted to point out a serious error in logic you've got.
Your article on farting is, um, well, interesting. At the beginning of it you claim to be concerned with the welfare of the environment. That's fantastic. Everybody should be. You claim that vegetarians are doing HARM to the environment by not eating meat, because of their farting. Ok, you're allowed to make that claim. My question is, do you really think that flatulence of the 1-2% of people in the US who are vegetarians far outweighs the flatulence of the BILLIONS of cattle who are being raised for slaughter, so that you can eat them?
Heatem Response: HEATEM never made such a claim. Additionally, why do you imply that the United States is the only country with flatulent vegetarians? That implication, combined with your capitalization of the word BILLIONS makes it seem as though you are "spinning" the facts. HEATEM is not fooled!
Directly from your farticle "Cows, along with the methane gas they emit are one of the top sources of global warming, otherwise known as the greenhouse effect." Ok, well, then wouldn't one of the best ways to preserve the environment be to, well, stop raising cattle? Just a thought. To say that vegetarians are causing global warming out of their asses is preposterous.
If we're all going to die anyway, why do you give a damn about the planet? Why give a damn about anything?
Heatem Response: Would you like to buy a t-shirt? .
Great job, there. Any way, the thing that got me was the bit about the food chain. First of all, people don't mind animals eating other animals because they have to to survive. Humans do not need to eat meat to survive. And what if there WAS a more intelligent species? What if we were purple? You can "what if" as much as you want, but nothing is going to change. For a lot of animals, it's not even biologically possible to eat us.
Heatem Response: Ahhhh... but they would if they could, don't kid yourself. Animals have no sympathy for humans, so why should we have sympathy for them? It's a 2 way street. They get the short end of the stick, so to speak. Hey that's life. We didn't invent it, we just observe it.
Another thing is how you say that cows contribute so much to pollution. Well, guess why there are so many cows? People bred them. It's not the cow's fault. Not to mention how much factory farming pollutes. It makes cows look very innocent when it comes to pollution. (Oh noes, farts are destroying the environment! It's not like cars and factories contribute to any pollution!)
But no, vegetarians are the selfish ones! But are you going to tell people to stop driving their cars? But still, thank you for not saying that you don't care what the animal goes through.
The Anti-Veg approves this website. HEATEM rules!
FYI, Peta employs an arsonist terrorist and kills over 3000 animals a year that they "rescue" from animal shelters. They don't believe in keeping pets so what else would they do with them. And lastly, if we didn't eat cows they would probably go extinct cause they don.t serve any other damn purpose. Oh sorry, and lastly, humans were hunters and gatherers before they were farmers. Vegans should be dragged out into the street and flogged with salami. GREAT job on the site.
You said: "The obvious conclusion here is that by avoiding the consumption of beef, you are keeping methane producing cows alive longer than necessary, and actually helping to expedite the deadly effects of global warming. If you are an active member of an environmental organization and also a practicing vegan or vegetarian - you are living a contradictory lifestyle. I think it's time for a long look in the mirror."
Do that, because this is some much Bullshit!
Mind you I am a meat eater, but the amount of meat produced is basically the amount of meat consumed! Otherwise you get overloads of stocks (of dead meat)and you have to invent silly things like "the danger" of Mad Cows Disease to get rid of the surpluses! If vegetarians start eating meat, more meat will have to be produced, so keep the veg of the meat is OK! Only simplistic morons, which there are many of, off course, will "believe" your arguments!
Heatem Response: If English is your primary language, we strongly recommend you repeat grades 1-6.
Great site. Cows and such are ugly they should be glad we eat them not to mention damn tasty too. I'm a meat eater and plan on staying that way PETA will never change that.
Heatem Response: Excellent! PETA blows.
You people a cruel and heartless.......... How could you take the time to make a web site like this???? The inhuman treatment that cows must go through just to be killed for people to eat is sickening!!! You should go to peta website and watch the videos. It just might change you mind.
Heatem Response: For the record, HEATEM has never tortured any animals.
Your website kicks ass!!!!!
if the vegan diet is so wonderful,why isn't linda mccartney still alive?
who are you people? and why do you waste your time with shit?
Heatem Response: Somebody's gotta do it.