"Vegetarian" Business/Formal Shoe Options

[Klobber]

Since Im feeling bored, I may as well pass on this muse:

We are that superposition of quantum states, as is our food. It is collections of atoms eating collections of atoms. If this were completely true, why would nature evolve us through random experimentation (instilling a survival of the species law) into beings that fear death and value life in general.

I wonder if justifying moral behaviour only makes sense if there exists god (not necessarily in a religious sense but as a set of laws and parameters arising from some predefined constraint written by a grand designer). Any other hypothesis regarding right or wrong-doing might ultimately be considered meaningless since the value of life would likely be nil-pwa in a completely random chaotic universe.

 

[Bargs]

Originally Posted by whnay.

Every vegan I've met has without fault been two things:

1) A self-important know-it-all dickweed

2) A left wing hack

But I guess those two things come hand in hand these days

+1 - Stumbled onto this thread - laughed ****** off!!!

 

[randomax]

Originally Posted by cptjeff

^Well, I do like a good salad.

but none of us eat enough of it to be actually using the appendix

 

[DWFII]

Originally Posted by randomax

By that arguement, we should also eat raw leaves since we have an appendix that is "designed" to digest them.
I don't think this is accurate. The function of the appendix:

Originally Posted by Loren G. Martin, professor of physiology at Oklahoma State University, in Scientific American magazine

In this context, the function of the appendix appears to be to expose white blood cells to the wide variety of antigens, or foreign substances, present in the gastrointestinal tract. Thus, the appendix probably helps to suppress potentially destructive humoral (blood- and lymph-borne) antibody responses while promoting local immunity. The appendix--like the tiny structures called Peyer's patches in other areas of the gastrointestinal tract--takes up antigens from the contents of the intestines and reacts to these contents. This local immune system plays a vital role in the physiological immune response and in the control of food, drug, microbial or viral antigens. The connection between these local immune reactions and inflammatory bowel diseases, as well as autoimmune reactions in which the individual's own tissues are attacked by the immune system, is currently under investigation.
I had never heard that the appendix was designed to digest raw leaves...so I looked it up. I hope you'll forgive me if I note that such mis-information is not helpful.

 

[randomax]

Originally Posted by DWFII

I don't think this is accurate. The function of the appendix:



I had never heard that the appendix was designed to digest raw leaves...so I looked it up. I hope you'll forgive me if I note that such mis-information is not helpful.

Always open to correction, but this one is pretty disputed. The most commonly agreed upon use of the appendix is that "it's a vestigial structure which has lost its original function." "One potential ancestral purpose put forth by Charles Darwin[4] was that the appendix was used for digesting leaves as primates. It may be a vestigial organ, evolutionary baggage, of ancient humans that has degraded down to nearly nothing over the course of evolution. "

There are other uses that have been proposed as well (including the one you quoted) but I know that a lot of people get it removed due to inflamation so I find it somewhat difficult to believe that it's actually useful. That being said I'm not an expert on the topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermiform_appendix

 

[JammieDodger]

So, about three months ago I became a vegetarian. Various reasons, the usual (is it right to be speciest/ecology/taking a life/etc.).

Bittt of a pickle, both my work pairs of shoes (Crockett & Jones) now need resoling. You know, I'm not wearing rubber soles to work, that would be mental.

Are there any options out there for vegetarians in terms of both shoemakers and err, some kind synthetic material which doesn't look like crap.

I'm guessing not, just have to quit my job lol (not actually laughing out loud).

Thanks,
Thomas

 

[KObalto]

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=210891

 

[pebblegrain]

Originally Posted by JammieDodger

So, about three months ago I became a vegetarian. Various reasons, the usual (is it right to be speciest/ecology/taking a life/etc.).

Bittt of a pickle, both my work pairs of shoes (Crockett & Jones) now need resoling. You know, I'm not wearing rubber soles to work, that would be mental.

Are there any options out there for vegetarians in terms of both shoemakers and err, some kind synthetic material which doesn't look like crap.

I'm guessing not, just have to quit my job lol (not actually laughing out loud).

Thanks,
Thomas

resole with rubber