On Feb 27, 6:22*pm, dh@. wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:39:12 -0500, ToolPackinMama >
> wrote:
>
> >My favorite food used to be chicken. *recently, while I was preparing
> >chicken for my family, I had an epiphany.
>
> >I was handling the chicken parts with great caution. *I had vinyl gloves
> >on, and I was working hard to keep the process sanitary. *I am aware of
> >how unclean chicken meat generally is.
>
> >It suddenly struck me: *"If I believe this has to be handled like toxic
> >waste, why am I feeding it to my family!?"
>
> * * It's not that way with "meat". It's that way with *some* meat. Notice that
> it's that way with meat from omnivores, which we are. So it makes sense that
> there is a danger of exchanging microbes that can thrive in the bodies of
> omnivores if you eat the bodies of omnivores without doing something to kill
> those particular microbes. Notice that it's a danger in pork and chicken which
> are both omnivores, and not in beef and fish because their systems are too
> different. But the good part is that if you kill the microbes which is simple
> enough, then the meat is good for you and your family.
>
> >It hit me like a bolt of lightning: *I believe that meat is unwholesome,
> >so why am I still eating it, and serving it to others!?
>
> * * Just make sure you kill the microbes which also results in better tasting
> meat. No one likes rare chicken, and though rare pork tastes awesome it can make
> a person horribly sick. So cook it.
>
> >I have always hated the cruelty that "food animals" were subjected to.
> >I had to not think about it, to be able to eat meat at all. *Well, I am
> >thinking about it now, and it makes the thought of meat even more repugnant.
>
> * * Broiler chickens and their parents are not kept in little cages and the vast
> majority of them get to enjoy lives of positive value, imo. The same is true of
> cage free laying hens in general so if you buy cage free eggs you are supporting
> a system which deliberately tries to provide lives of positive value for laying
> hens. There's reason to feel good about doing that, not reason to feel bad about
> it. There's reason to feel bad about buying battery cage eggs though especially
> if you could get cage free simply by spending more money. Not only does buying
> cage free eggs and whatever other animal friendly products deliberately
> contribute to lives of positive value for livestock animals, but it also puts
> you in the position of deliberately contributing to a more considerate type of
> society and thinking in general. Notice that it's a level of consideration and
> participation that eliminationists do NOT want other people to intentionally
> rise to because it works AGAINST their selfish and lowly elimination objective.
>
> >OK! *The solution seems simple: *vegetarianism.
>
> * · Vegans contribute to the deaths of animals by their use of
> wood and paper products, electricity, roads and all types of
> buildings, their own diet, etc... just as everyone else does.

Which gives her absolutely no reason why she shouldn't go vegetarian.