On Apr 6, 4:18*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> On 4/6/2012 12:19 PM, Rupert wrote:
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> > [steaming load snipped]
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> Why do all "vegans" spend a huge amount of time searching for micrograms
> of animal bits to get out of their diet, and no time whatever trying to
> determine what the lowest-harm fruits and vegetables are?
>
> Why would any rational person take such absurd satisfaction in learning
> about the minute part of an anchovy that's in a bottle of Worcestershire
> sauce and thus stop buying one bottle a year, versus finding some grain
> to substitute for a known lethal product like rice?

yeh, rice is incredibly lethal. That's why there are no bison left in
California. Rice farming killed them all.