An Essay about Vegetarianism

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An Essay about Vegetarianism

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Hey, guys!
I've decided to try to write an essay about vegetarianism in Latin:
Quid homines in hoc foro cogitant de vegetarianismo? Ego vegetarianista sum, ego credo carnis edendum non permissibile esse. Quomodo id permissibile esse possit? Si carnem edimus, aliqui occisus esse debet. Id saepe non videmus, sed non licet nobis id ignorare. Et in Sina, multi homines canes edunt, easdem canes, quas nos amamus. In Helvetia etiam multi homines feles edunt. An canes et feles quodam modo differentes sunt a bubus et suibus, quas nos occidimus, ut carnem possimus edere? Forsan feles et canes sapientiores a bubus et suibus sunt, sed boves et sues certe sapientiores a liberis infantibus sunt, et quis neget infantes occidere non permissibile esse? Sane, aliquae animalia non possunt vivere si ea animalia carnem non edant. Ergo quid? Mantisae religiosae etiam non possunt liberos habere, si eae non occidant et edant maritos suos. An eius causa, quodam modo, permissibile est mulieribus, quae homines sunt, suos maritos occidere?
Argumenta pro carnis edendo, quae saepe dantur, sunt:
1) Carnis minime carus modus vitamini B12 acquirendi est.
Ita, multa animalia, boves inter alia, habent, in suis lactibus, bacteria quae vitaminum B12 faciunt. Sed in carne, quae non carum est, vitaminum B12 paene non datur. Bubus, et aliis animalibus quae edimus, hodie semper antibiotica dantur. Ea antibiotica protegunt ea animalia a morbis, quos bacteria faciunt, quia ea animalia paene semper in parvis et sordidis spatiis sita sunt. Sed antibiotica etiam ea bacteria, quae vitaminum B12 faciunt, occidunt. Antibiotica enim et bona et mala bacteria occidunt. Carnis piscium vitaminum B12 continet, sed carnis piscium multe carior (plures pecunias debes dare, ut carnem piscium possis emere) a pilulis quae vitaminum B12 continent est.
2)Edere magnam sumam omega-3-acidi protegit a morbis cordis.
Simpliciter, hoc non est veritas. Evidentia huius non datur. Et si hoc veritas esset, non debeamus magnam sumam carnis edere, debeamus magnam sumam lini edere. Linum enim plenius omega-3-acidis quam carnis est.
3) In optima diaeta, triens energiae ex proteinis acquisita est.
De veritate huius informationis loquitur id, quod lac hominum continet paene nulla proteina.
Spero, ut vos de his rebus cogitare faciam. Quod nos edimus, et quem aut quam nos edimus, afficit homines, et alia sentientia animalia, circa nos. Cum carnem emimus, facimus plures carnes factae esse, id est, plura animalia facta esse et occisa esse. Leges de animalium protegendo id non afficiunt.
What do you think about it? I've written a longer essay about it in English here a few years ago.

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What do you think is the best way of saying "in their intestines"? I've tried "in suis lactibus", however, I am not sure if that's unambiguous ("lactibus" could also be ablative plural of "lac", to mean "in the milks", right?).

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FlatAssembler wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:28 am Hey, guys!
I've decided to try to write an essay about vegetarianism in Latin:
Not exhaustive and subject to criticism as well.

permissibile (it's not Latin) --> licitum ?
carnis edendum --> carnem edere
aliqui occisus esse debet. (use present infinitive) --> aliquis occidi debet
sapientiores a bubus et suibus (comparative with simple ablative without a) --> sapientiores bubus et suibus
sapientiores a liberis infantibus --> sapientiores liberis infantibus
mantisae --> mantides (from Greek)
non possunt liberos habere (liberi: free children vs, slave) --> subolem (or something else)
maritos--> mares : animals don't get marry (yet!)
pro carnis edendo --> pro carne edenda
quae non carum est, --> quae non cara est,
carnis piscium multe carior (caro, carnis!) --> caro piscium multo carior
a pilulis --> pilulis
sumam --> summam
quam carnis est. --> quam caro est.
plures carnes factae esse, (beside wrong case, use present infinitive) -- > plures carnes fieri
plura animalia facta esse (not clear what you mean) et occisa esse. --> plura animalia fieri et occidi
de animalium protegendo --> de animalibus protegendis

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Thanks for the response!
bedwere wrote:not clear what you mean
I meant to say that more meat we buy, more animals are being bred.

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FlatAssembler wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:26 am Thanks for the response!
bedwere wrote:not clear what you mean
I meant to say that more meat we buy, more animals are being bred.
plura animalia ali

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bedwere wrote:Not exhaustive
Perhaps we should add something about how factory farming causes antibiotic resistance. How about this:
Dare magnam summam antibioticorum animalibus etiam possibile facit, ut aliquae bacteria, quae et animalia et homines morbidos faciunt, ab antibioticis invulnerabilia fiant. Materia genetica, de invulnerabilitate ab antibioticis, in paene omnibus bacteriis data est, et ea potest activa fieri. Probabiliter, id fit iam hodie. Forsan multos morbos, quae hodie possumus curare antibioticis, in futura non poterimus curare... carnem edendi causa.

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