I actually bought into this, well the health part, several years back. In
order to stay in top shape for running hounds I took up bicycling. Over time
it became something of an obsession. I began mountain bike racing and
eventually graduated to the highly elitist sport of road racing. I generally
took a spanking every time I entered a road race (I did quite well on the
mountain bike) and I began filtering through performance enhancing food,
suplements, training techniques and so forth and finally went to the extreme
by going vegetarian, cheered on by a couple of limp wristed vegan types I was
riding with at the time. I went all the way and did so for over a year
without a single conscious slip. I lost weight (muscle weight
unfortunately), noticed no difference in my general health, I suffered
continually from cravings, mostly for pizza of all things.. and most
importantly my perfomance actually declined. It was somewhere in the 14th
month I believe, that I finally threw up by hands and called "bullshit", went
back to meat eating with a vengance and recovered my lost performance in a
remarkably short period of time. My friends have mixed emotions as I'm back
to bargecuing but now I'm not giving away all the pheasants, grouse, quail,
ducks, geese, deer, elk, antelope and so on that I kill. Well, gotta go,
I've got mink to skin.

Bacon



On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 23:22:44 -0700, TofuBoy wrote
(in message ) :

"Going vegan is the best thing people can do for the environment,
their health, and, of course, the animals." -- Howard Lyman, ex-fourth
generation cattle rancher and feedlot operator