Call me pessimistic or misanthropic all you want, but I do hate vegans.  By vegans, I don't mean the Hindu family down the way who believes that that cow really could be their uncle, or the person who quietly believes that not eating meat will reduce their body fat.  No, I'm talking about the morons who never fail to remind us that eating animals is torture equivalent to concentration camps.  Prime example: I love Between the Buried and Me; hell, they're one of my favorite bands.  But this ad they have for peta2 about vegans "shredding harder" makes me puke, but not as much as the Napalm Death peta2 ad about "#99", the chimp at the butt of scientific research.

Let me be clearer: I'm all for stances and such and such, but not overtly hypocritical ones.  Vegans value the life of animals over humans as long as it conveniences them.  They support the destruction of other's property (tossing blood on clothes).  They have no interest in aiding truly admirable causes like the hungry in third-world countries.  Plus, very few use absolutely no animal products whatsoever (Bam! As long as it conveniences them!).

Also, in the spirit of Maddox, those who don't eat meat don't take into consideration the enormous amount of damage done on the environment by farming.  Yeah, pretty sure there's a dead spot on the floor of the gulf of Mexico caused by those chemicals used in farming.  That brings me to question: if vegans really believed what they said, wouldn't they all have their own little farms like the Amish, without using chemicals?  You would think, but no...

The problem with making any lofty claims about the damage done to animals by humans if you're human is that you're human and are inherently damaging to them anyway.  We've destroyed environments that created vegans' homes, malls, doctor's offices.  Vegans use all of these at the expense of good ole' Peter Cottontail, Bambi, and Yogi, but are not saddened by it one bit.

Truth is, vegans are in it for some sense of communal guilt.  If everyone became vegan, I'm sure half of them would fall out simply for the fact that it wasn't controversial anymore.  Oh, and about metal, metal is macabre: you can't have metal without talking about death or blood or something like that.  Not eating meat doesn't make you legitimately "metal".