If you "don't want to be surrounded by skyscrapers" then move to the suburbs or the wilderness. Living in a place like San Francisco and complaining about the city's evolution and increasing density is the very definition of stupid.

Higher density (which is better for the environment, you know) is the only thing that's going to solve this problem, not standing like an idiot in front of a coach and angrily waving a sign.

You were doing fine until you got to this part. It's not the fault of the Google employees, it's the fault of the protestors. If they'd stop blocking new residential developments at every turn and trying to shorten the tall apartment buildings that do manage to get built, the city would stand a better chance of building enough housing stock to meet demand and rents wouldn't be so high in the first place.

They are total fucking morons. Their problem is with rising rents. Rising rents are a result of a shortage of housing in the city falling way short of demand. Shortage of housing in the city is the result of these same idiots objecting to every residential development taller than a gas station. Who do they blame? Not themselves, they prefer to scapegoat some tech workers, most of whom spend money in local businesses and help the local economy anyway. These ignorant cretins are so fucking stupid on so many levels I don't even know where to start.

Animals are an inherently inefficient means of getting energy into the human body. Eating meat is also much more prone to health problems, obesity being the most pressing.

Is it okay to eat your straw man?

Why is it that some people care more about the death of 200,000 Syrians than the death of over a million jews during WWII?

See? I can find a bigger problem too.

Speak for yourself.

In other words, veganism is the only logical outcome of a discussion about the morality of eating animals.

Black slaves weren't bred for food, and weren't slaughtered on industrial production lines.

Slavery was an institution that many people thought was sacrosanct and was so entwined into all aspects of society that it was unthinkable that it would ever be abolished. But a more evolved sense of morality prevailed. My comparison is entirely valid.

Nice try, AC, but as you know China is still going through their own industrial revolution. We got the working conditions thing sorted out in the west a long time ago, and we're not going back to Dickensian working conditions despite the best efforts of some people.

I would have no problem with lab grown meat as long as it's safe and healthy. As long as a living animal didn't have to suffer and die, that's fine by me.

I became vegetarian two years ago. I'm 38. Chances are I've eaten more meat in my lifetime than you have.

1 - It's not just about dolphins. It's about human treatment of dolphins.

2 - That's your prerogative. Personally if I lived in the revolutionary war period I'd prefer it if my legacy was on the abolitionist side.

3 - The question of "morality" in other life forms is irrelevant. Morality is a human trait.