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Default Michael Jackson, vegetarian, dead at 50

On Jun 27, 6:12*pm, K > wrote:
> billyquealy wrote:
> > On Jun 27, 3:33 pm, Dragonblaze > wrote:
> >> On Jun 27, 11:27 am, Fred > wrote:

>
> >> [snip]

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> >>>>>> Eating meat in moderate amounts won't harm your health, either. *Meat is
> >>>>>> an excellent source of protein, some minerals and other nutrients.
> >>>>> And you have to kill to get it
> >>>> Not a problem.
> >>> * * * * Well, unless you're a psychopath, it is.
> >> Having to kill for your food does not make one a psychopath. We all
> >> kill living things to eat, vegans included. Unless you somehow manage
> >> to subsist on salt alone, everything you eat was once alive.

>
> >>>>> and it comes laced with residues of growth
> >>>>> hormones and anti-biotics and red dyes that the butcher adds to make it
> >>>>> look good, and heaven knows what else.
> >>>> No, none of that is necessary, and quite a lot of meat doesn't contain
> >>>> any of that.
> >>> * * * * Yeah it does. unless you buy organic meat, and how many people do?
> >> In the UK that is pretty common, with all the major retailers offering
> >> organic meat and produce.

>
> >>>>> No thanks I'll never eat meat again.
> >>>> That's your choice. *However, most of your reasons for not eating it,
> >>>> particularly the slaughter of the animals, are specious.
> >>> * * * * Humanist. *Caring people don't eat meat.
> >> ********. Humanist means one who has studied the humanities.

>
> >> The only time caring comes to play in what you eat is when you make
> >> certain that your food had a good life and was killed humanely. Easy
> >> enough to do.

>
> >> Since hominids have adapted to meat-eating long before Homo Sapiens
> >> came along, I do not see any reason to alter my diet, especially when
> >> doing so would mean having to take artificial supplements as vegans
> >> have to do. That little fact alone reveals that a vegan diet is not an
> >> ideal diet for humans. An ideal diet for any species will not need any
> >> supplements, as the micronutrients are provided by the diet.

> > ______________________________
> > Garden of Eden (protection in balance) was destroyed by same selective
> > taking of knowledge
> > of good and evil, *reasons for eatting meat conveniently , then when
> > fruit of this action
> > without considering the ACT itself,fell from the tree, it led them to
> > be forced off the desolate land they
> > gathered and hunted to death, and later with their goats in tow,

>
> > Like the meat-eatters in this blog they covered their shame with fig
> > leaves,

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> Meat eaters are not ashamed of eating meat.- Hide quoted text -
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Thats because they too are dead like the animals they are consuming.