Poll: Most would not stop eating meat if asked to by their loved one

[hunter]

14. My wife is a vegetarian and so am I most days.

Those who hunt and fish in my family do not understand.

My brother and one of my nephews are masters of the BBQ. I'll enthusiastically eat what they cook.

Nevertheless, by generally avoiding meat I have a much smaller environmental impact than meat eaters.

I've given up jobs and changed religions without blinking. A job is just a job and I'll always be a heretic no matter the religion.

We raised our kids Catholic, which wasn't difficult because we live in a very liberal inclusive parish. My feelings about the Church are very similar to my feelings about the U.S.A.. For better or worse that's the community I have to work within, that's my community. I can accomplish greater good as an insider than as an outsider. There are plenty of days I curse the Church and the U.S.A.. Both are capable of great evil. I've no tolerance for right wing Catholics, but right wing U.S. Americans are even more despicable and longtime champions of murder and mayhem.

When I was a kid my mom got kicked out of several churches. I'm much less volatile, I don't pick fights with clergymen on their own turf.

Anyone who practiced an anti-intellectual fundamentalist creationist religion would run away from me before we'd have any chance of being partners. I'm an amateur evolutionary biologist with quite a bit of formal training in that field. In my own intellectual pursuits, whenever religion and science conflict, the science supersedes. I'm comfortable with very large numbers. I've got no use for small gods presiding over small universes with mankind as some pinnacle of creation.

The universe is very big and the human mind is very small. We humans don't know shit. Best we can do is be kind to one another.

A person doesn't need a religion or a nation to be kind.