Vegetable Gardens (pro) VS Flower Gardens (con)

INTRODUCTION Oh, such a shame you’ve forfeited. I always love writing long rebuttals. And honestly your second round doesn’t give much stuff to refute. But anyways, here we go: REBUTTAL I stated this before and I will state it again: I would just like to point out that you completely broke conduct: "Round 2: up to 3 arguments- NO REBUTTALS " Definition of rebuttal (thanks Google): "A refutation or contradiction. Synonyms: refutation, denial, countering, invalidation, negation, contradiction. " Now you see how you broke conduct? You accepted my terms but then you went against them by stating rebuttals early! Then, you went on to say how this debate is about opinions and so it is not worth it to state it because opinions are irrelevant. Ok this is flawed in so many ways: 1: Why would you accept this debate if you knew it was about opinions and then you wouldn’t debate with them? Why? 2: Opinions are based on facts. Just because we don’t statistically state numbers and quotes, we are still saying things based off of the references and the bottom of the page. 3: From Debate. org: “Debate. org is a free online community where intelligent minds from around the world come to debate online and read the opinions of others. ” You see? Debate. org is about opinions. 4: Isn’t that a opinion? You saying that they are irrelevant! That is a opinion! My opinion is that opinions are not irrelevant but your opinion on opinion’s is that they are irelevant! “I could also list a bunch of facts about flowers which would be unnecessary. ” What? You think facts are irrelevant too? This is a debate! For goodness sake, facts prove your side in a debate! They give you evidence! I can’t believe that I have to tell you this! And then you go and give a fact! I will address that right now: Ok to address your one and only “fact. ” The fact that you stated after saying that facts are irrelevant. “There are more than 42 flowers that you can eat. So basically you can eat from flower gardens. ” I wonder how that would taste. Just because they are edible doesn’t mean they taste in the least bit good! Take silkworms, they are edible, but imagine how disgusting they would taste! {1} Also, ok so there are some edible flowers, but how many edible vegetables, fruits and herbs combined are there? Just between the number of veggies and fruits that were common had over 200! And now do address your rebuttals that you shouldn't have posted but you did. “I could say the same thing with flowers in a garden then instead of them in a flower shop. They look better and are more fresh. ” So, how does that make flower gardens better? How would that make vegetable gardens any worse? I agree with you, flowers from gardens are much better in quality and freshness, but the only purpose of the produce is much better, CONSUMPTION. Your point does not prove that vegetable gardens are not better than flower gardens “I don't have a vegetable garden and I'm not dying. ” Maybe you are not dying, maybe I’m not dying, but read this. “According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the less severe condition of undernourishment currently affects about 842 million people, or about one in eight (12.5%) people in the world population. ” Sometimes people forget how lucky they are that they have what they have. Alot of those starving people would be very grateful to have those food gardens. “I can sell flowers to make money. ” Again, this does not make vegetable gardens any worse. I cannot find anything saying how much money people can make from selling flowers, but I found this. ‘“Tim and Jill Stark, owners of Eckerton Hill farms in Hamburg, PA, welling their colored and flavored peppers. They have been gardening for profit since 1995. The business cleared $25,000 last year. We could have made our money just selling to restaurants, says Tim, but getting a price worth our time was too tough. If you have a great product and you know it, you should be bold and charge what you think you're worth. .. and don't be afraid to start small. ” This article was in 1999. As the population grows so does the need for food, which means more sales which equals more money. “Can I actually see the statistics for that? Or is this just another assumption you made? ” How about this? “HOW MANY CALORIES DO YOU BURN WHILE GARDENING AT 125 POUNDS The average 125 pound person will burn 308 calories per hour while gardening. HOW MANY CALORIES DO YOU BURN WHILE GARDENING AT 150 POUNDS The average 150 pound person will burn 369 calories per hour while gardening. HOW MANY CALORIES DO YOU BURN WHILE GARDENING AT 185 POUNDS The average 185 pound person will burn 455 calories per hour while gardening. HOW MANY CALORIES DO YOU BURN WHILE GARDENING AT 215 POUNDS The average 215 pound person will burn 528 calories per hour while gardening. HOW MANY CALORIES DO YOU BURN WHILE GARDENING AT 250 POUNDS The average 250 pound person will burn 615 calories per hour while gardening” CONCLUSION WHY I HAVE WON: -My opponent violated conduct -I have made better and more arguments -I refuted all of his points -My opponent’s definition of opinion is false because he provided only one source for his arguments References: {1} . http://www.smosh.com... {2} . http://vegetablesfruitsgrains.com... {3} . http://voices.yahoo.com... {4} . http://en.wikipedia.org... {5}. http://www.motherearthnews.com... {6} . http://voices.yahoo.com... Thanks for debating me!