TMC
01-13-2015, 09:28 PM
http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/01/ron-swanson-parks-and-recreation-meat/
In the battle between vegetarians and meat-eaters, the vegetarians have two advantages: they live longer and they’re really good at recruitment. Even I, a man who once ate a turkey leg while riding on a jazzy scooter at a county fair, was once seduced into vegetarianism thanks to a zoo/recruitment camp that won my heart with a pig and its origin story. Only the smell of steak brought me back to the flesh — which is the one advantage that meat-eaters have as they try to keep their numbers up: the captivating smell and the illuminating taste of meat.
We also have Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman’s Parks and Recreation character — a man, a mustache, and the father of the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness. And while The Pyramid informs us that a torso should be thick and impenetrable, it doesn’t tell us how to preserve our way of life when kindly vegetarians try to respectfully educate us on their meat-less ways or innocently mention that they don’t eat meat.
Thankfully, Ron Swanson’s meat-eating acumen stretches beyond his pyramid. Swanson is a prolific philosopher who oozes wisdom, and with that collected wisdom, we have built a list of ten life lesson that can be deployed to proudly state your case for meat-love — or steal one back for our side.
In the battle between vegetarians and meat-eaters, the vegetarians have two advantages: they live longer and they’re really good at recruitment. Even I, a man who once ate a turkey leg while riding on a jazzy scooter at a county fair, was once seduced into vegetarianism thanks to a zoo/recruitment camp that won my heart with a pig and its origin story. Only the smell of steak brought me back to the flesh — which is the one advantage that meat-eaters have as they try to keep their numbers up: the captivating smell and the illuminating taste of meat.
We also have Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman’s Parks and Recreation character — a man, a mustache, and the father of the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness. And while The Pyramid informs us that a torso should be thick and impenetrable, it doesn’t tell us how to preserve our way of life when kindly vegetarians try to respectfully educate us on their meat-less ways or innocently mention that they don’t eat meat.
Thankfully, Ron Swanson’s meat-eating acumen stretches beyond his pyramid. Swanson is a prolific philosopher who oozes wisdom, and with that collected wisdom, we have built a list of ten life lesson that can be deployed to proudly state your case for meat-love — or steal one back for our side.