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I vehemently support free speech, but, I also support the idea that just because you can say something doesn’t mean you should. In my opinion, this is not practicing free speech, though; This is bullying.

If they were merely posting unpleasant pictures and passing out fliers about thier views of meat eating in general, I'd agree it was free speech, but they're not. The vegans are deliberately targeting a specific group of people. Not only are they targeting them privately, they are targeting them publicly, and now groups outside the high school have gotten involved. This is actually the definition of bullying is it not?

Besides, this is high school educational program, not a governmental office whose practices these vegans are protesting. This is completely inappropriate in an educational setting. I damn well guarantee if the agriculture group was doing this to the vegans, there’d be community outrage.

Let me add...
I am not advocating silencing the vegans, even though I feel that this sort of thing is completely inappropriate in an educational setting. If this is acceptable for the vegans, then it must be acceptable for all, though.

I'd like to see the agriculture kids fighting fire with fire. Granted, you can't find "gruesome" pictures of plants being slaughtered but I am sure they can come up with something.

Fair is fair.

I had mini bibles given to me in the entrance of my high school.

Here they were these clean cut rich blonde freckled pale people holding hands in a prayer circle & giving me mini bibles. It was terrifying.

I trashed those things but the memory persists.

Where does it say that people have a "right" to not be offended?

Their skin is TOO thin, methinks.

"Carcass crunchers" ? I see a popular T-shirt coming out of this. Mine in XXL, please.

The article is short -- I don't see anyone calling for the behavior to be prohibited.

I find it useful to identify online bullying because it often takes the place of *argument* (that connected series of statements intended to support a proposition.)

It's not that people have a right to be protected from offense, but it is useful to point out that a person is not engaging in constructive dialogue, but is just using social techniques to bully, coerce, intimidate, demean others.

Complaints of being bullied, or being harassed, is very much different than a complaint of "they are offending me".

I'd respond by posting pictures of starving babies in Africa, captioned "I got yer vegan diet right here!"

"Carcass cruncher" just makes me want bacon.

I saw a Nova special decades ago that starts with cattle grazing in a field and then takes you through the whole slaughterhouse process. "Not for the squeamish" is an understatement!

But I appreciate having the knowledge. I think everyone should know how the steak gets to the plate. And then enjoy the steak. Especially a good rib-eye.

Maybe the agriculture students need to remind the vegan students (and associations) how vegan food gets to the marketplace.

Hint: it has something to do with agriculture.

And "carcass cruncher" would make a good name for a band or a monster truck.

Kids don't know where or when to quit. If they get butthurt, just don't go to wherever it is the source of butthurt resides. The internet isn't like a schoolyard where you can be chased. Once you're off of a webpage, that's typically it.

One of the comedians managed a thousand years ago used to do a joke about vegetarians in restaurants....

"I'm a vegetarian. Is there meat in this water?"

"Once you're off of a webpage, that's typically it."

In the adult world, yeah. I can be as big a bitch as I want to you (or at least as much as our hostess here will allow) and you can just walk away. You don't know me, you don't work with me, you don't even know where in the world I really am. I'm just words on a webpage.

But these kids are going to school with each other. Even if they can walk away from the webpage, they'll see the people who are posting nasty things the next day at school.

"Even if they can walk away from the webpage, they'll see the people who are posting nasty things the next day at school."

Good point.

Some vegans are adamant about "meat is murder". Like one of the ag students said, it is depressing to raise an animal and butcher it. It ain't murder, though.

I'd like to see the agriculture kids fighting fire with fire. Granted, you can't find "gruesome" pictures of plants being slaughtered but I am sure they can come up with something.

No you cant find gruesome pictures, you can make charts showing the amount of species driven to extiction by habitat destruction caused by farming at its current levels and extrapolate the carnage that would follow if we stopped eating meat entierly

Oh, and the millions of animals, usually rodents, killed and left to rot to safe gaurd field and stockpiles

Vegetarians are just better than us corpse-eaters.

We'll all die from bowel cancer while they will simply get lighter and lighter until they ascend, full of light, to the light. Lightly.

Carcass Cruncher....HA!

Proud to be one. Ever notice vegetarians and vegans are usually pale and sickly looking?

And short? Always thought that was odd....most vegetarians I know are under 5'8.

Thanks, Gog. I'm going to use that the next time I tease a vegan.

I don't know about short, but most I know are fat and hypothyroid, half are also diabetic.

If they're not space aliens, why do they call themselves Vegans?

I don't know about short, but most I know are fat and hypothyroid, half are also diabetic.

It's not really a surprise though if you think about it. Most of them eat a LOT of carbs. I have a good friend who is a vegan. I'll order a steak and broccili at dinner. He'll order onion rings.

Yeah. I'm good.