Jonathan Ball > wrote in message
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> See James Strut wrote:
> > http://www.post-gazette.com//pg/03273/227089.stm
>
>
> Off topic, jimmy, you asshole. This is supposed to be
> a forum for the discussion of vegetarian *food*, not
> for patting yourself on the back for being a
> health-obsessed freak.
>
> Anyway, that study is bad science. It's right there in
> the press release:
>
> Other studies have shown that vegetarians have a
> lower risk of heart disease and cancer,


That's me - Vegan for 35 years.


while people
> who eat large amounts of red meat have an increased
> risk.


That's my parents and most of my aunts and uncles who all ate a "normal"
diet and died of coronaries and/or strokes.

>
> It commits the logical fallacy of false bifurcation,
> asswipe. The choice is not between vegetarian diet or
> "large amounts of red meat". In fact, I eat a diet
> that contains relatively small amounts of meat, and not
> a lot of it red.
>

That's no excuse. Looks like it's still enough to make you use expletives
all over the plaice!!


> You sanctimonious self congratulatory shitbag. You're
> also a skinny geek.


He's got a webcam???

Wish I was a skinny geek! My beergut is the equivalent of carrying two heavy
suitcases around all the time and it won't go away.

And anyway - it might be his religion. He might be Geek Orthodox!!

And there's a hyphen in self-congratulatory.

And as for the subject line - I used to suffer terribly from Migraine - up
to three attacks per week before I became Vegan. Once I'd given up dairy
stuff it virtually disappeared!

So there!