usual suspect wrote:
> J.C. Scott wrote:
> > I quoted from Northern Illinois
> > University which stated:
>
> Citation please. NIU doesn't throw out this kind of bullshit.

Too late.

> > Risk of death from heart attack by average American man: 50%
> > Risk of death from heart attack by average American vegetarian man:
15%
> > Risk of death from heart attack by average American purely
vegetarian
> > man: 4%
>
> Or did you get this "NIU" information out of a book like Diet for a
New
> America by Robbins? Yeah, you're the kind who'd do that.

The link was posted earlier in the thread, which makes it clearly
apparent your observational skills far exceed that of, say, the average
garden rake.

> > I would never ask anyone to let the facts contort their
expectations of
> > reality, however.
>
> Other than yourself, you mean.

Correct. Other than yourself.

>
> >>>What a crazy scare tactic that would
> >>>be to suggest that there are potential health risks associated
with
> >>>eating meat.
> >>
> >>There are also potential health risks associated with eating
produce:
> >> ...[F]ederal health surveillance of food-borne diseases from
> >> 1993 to 1997 found 2,751 outbreaks. Those outbreaks totaled
> >> 12,537 individual cases involving fruits and vegetables,
> >> compared with 6,709 cases involving meat.
> >>
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...od-cover_x.htm
> >>
> >>
> >>>Nevermind that the meat industry is a multibillion dollar
> >>>a year industry,
> >>
> >>>So is the "vegetable industry." So is the "fruit industry." So is
the
> >>>"soy industry." So is the "grain industry." So is the "water
> >>>industry." What kind of industry are you employed? Guess what.
It's probably a
> >>>multibillion dollar a year industry. You sloppy dunce.
> >
> > Yes, of course. I can see the line of Forbes 500 fruit and
vegetable
> > suppliers for miles.
>
> Maybe you should investigate which individual crops hire lobbyists in

> Washington, DC, as well as in state capitals. The "meat industry," as

> you call it, is but a drop in the bucket. Why is so much "corporate
> welfare" (as some are wont to call it) tied to grain crops?
>
> >>>You're right, there's none, except this:
> >>
> >>That's anecdote, not evidence.
> >
> > Nice assertion,
>
> Not an assertion. A fact.

Ah yes, the sound of chirping crickets, as we wait for that citation
regarding which parts of the lecture are anecdotal that you're going to
provide.