Why are we giving this moron television space?
Viewers tore into a militant vegan who claimed the dairy industry rapes and ‘sexually violates’ cows on This Morning as he sat next to two farmers who received death threats after posting photos of their calves online.
Joey Carbstrong, 31, an Australian ‘celebrity’ vegan activist with tens of thousands of YouTube and Instagram followers, lectured dairy farmers Jonny and Dulcie Crickmore about their rearing methods.
Another question would be why are we giving house space to a convicted criminal from Australia instead of sending him packing? We don’t need his lectures and we don’t need him to convert us.
Not least given that he is a massive jerk.
The campaigner, who just days ago attacked Jeremy Vine for eating a ham sandwich, claimed artificial insemination – during which semen are injected into the female cow’s ‘reproductive tract’ – was equivalent to ‘sexual abuse’ as the animal could not give consent.
Has this prize prick ever observed the mating rituals of ruminants? I have yet to see a bull seeking consent before mounting a cow.
Carbstrong, from Adelaide in south Australia, is currently touring the UK and Ireland because he has an ‘obligation’ to convert meat eaters to veganism.
There is no such obligation and, frankly, any sympathy I might have had for his arguments on animal husbandry have long since evaporated. What other people eat is none of his damned business and he has no business converting anyone. All I want now is for him to be thrown out of the country and sent back to the colonies. BTW, that bacon sarnie I had at lunchtime wasn’t bad – just wish they would put butter on the bread.
If I come across him I might just have an ‘obligation’ to tell him what to do with his food-fadddiness.
People like him see the world through rose-tinted telescopic vision. They never seem to realise that if you take their argument to its logical end, we would have to live on microscopically filtered air and nothing else.
Also, there would be far fewer animals sharing the world with us. Cows, sheep, goats and pigs are amongst those species that realised that to become a staple for the top species on the planet is a good way to protect your species. Horses thought they had it wrapped up, too, but along came the internal combustion engine…
If we no longer consider a species worthy of husbandry, you can be pretty sure that the land they presently occupy will be converted to growing crops.
“Viewers tore into a militant vegan”
Aside from the unfortunate, somewhat cannibalistic phrasing, ‘tearing into’ is a really bad response to such ‘people’ because it only serves to strengthen their Christ like delusions of grandeur. They relish suffering for their beliefs. They seek it out like a 1st Century Xian sought out lions.
The only correct response is to laugh at them and and continue to laugh at them until they flounce off.
Good question. My mother and I discussed this vegan promotion yesterday.
Conclusion BBC/MSM is infested with greens, socialists and minorities promoting their own preferences – BBC is an Advertorial
He seems to be a lving warning of the dangers of not having protein in your diet. Brain turns to jelly…
[He] lectured dairy farmers Jonny and Dulcie Crickmore about their rearing [!] methods.
I believe that he told Jeremy Vine that farmers shove things up cows’ anuses, so his biology is a bit off too.
This idiot seems to take his views on animal husbandry from watching James Herriot with his arm buried in some cow having difficulties and thinks that’s how it’s done.
Time for him to return to Terra Nova Australis Incognita I think.
“…a convicted criminal from Australia …”
I thought Australia was a place to which we despatched convicted criminals; not a place from which we acquired them.
Indeed. And it’s time he was sent back.
“…that bacon sarnie I had at lunchtime wasn’t bad – just wish they would put butter on the bread…”
Butter on a bacon sarnie? Heaven forfend! Brown sauce is fine – even ketchup for the kiddies, but butter?
Still, as the froggies are wont to say “One man’s fish is another man’s poisson.”
I can’t stand brown sauce. Butter on the other hand…
I am perfectly happy – as are you – for others to have tastes or opinions which differ from mine – as long as they do not attempt to forcibly impose them on me. ‘Tis that which differentiates us from the left and its acolytes.
‘Nobody,’
He whimpered,
‘Could call me
A fussy man;
I only want
A little bit
Of butter for
My bread!’
Excuse me, Longrider, for taking of the liberty, but marmalade is tasty, if it’s very thickly spread. 🙂
Butter? Sacrilege. It should be plain bread. Enough fat on the bacon usually.
No, it’s too dry. It needs butter for moistness. Bread always needs butter.
I think that this guy is being given television space because he is interesting. Yes we all disagree with him and think that he is a twat but here we are taking an interest in him. To be honest I think that he is entitled to his vegan opinions but he seems to be unable to extend the same courtesy to those who disagree with him, which in my view means that he is totally out of order and a bit of a bellend.
I don’t think he is going to make many converts to be honest. A much better advocate for the vegan diet is Scott Jurek, who is a champion ultra-marathon runner. Not only is he not ‘in your face’ about it, he also has some pretty impressive sporting credentials behind him.
Interesting? Not as such, but he’s certainly far funnier than what is described as comedy on the Beeb these days.
Interesting isn’t the word I would use. As an advocate for veganism he’s appalling.
If he isn’t interesting then why are we talking about him?
“As an advocate for veganism he’s appalling.”
As I said, he isn’t going to make any converts which, as an advocate, is surely the measure of success.
Scott Jurek, on the other hand, can run 120 miles faster than anyone else on the planet and can provide you with plant based recipes for the meals that he used to do it. you can point out how much you love bacon but you can’t counter him by claiming that a vegan diet will turn you into a weakling.
Personally I became a vegetarian initially for moral reasons although I was never that keen on meat anyway. Over the years I have learned that if you are going to claim to be moral you would have to cut out dairy products too. In the end I think that living things eating other living things is just the natural order of things. So now I eat fish cheese and eggs but don’t eat meat because I don’t really like it that much.
We are talking about him because he is annoying, not because he is interesting. And I don’t take kindly to arseholes who think they have the right to lecture me or convert me, so I’m answering back.
I haven’t. Indeed, I share some of the concerns vegans have about modern farming.
Shouting at me and using words like rape won’t make me give up my bacon butty though.
Maybe it would have been more accurate to say that the TV people find him interesting rather than everyone else who, as you say, find him annoying.
I realise that you didn’t say it but it is a common argument against an all plant diet that it must be deficient in certain essential nutrients. I suspect that getting enough protein must be difficult, but Jurek has proven that it can be done. Not sure that I would want to eat that many beans and mushrooms myself though.
You have to work harder to get the balance right. I’m not sure I could be bothered and, no, the beans and mushrooms really do not appeal.
Basically a massive amount of effort and sacrifice just so you can go around being holier than thou.