I have a feling that i shouldn't reply to this but i will...
"usual suspect" > wrote in message
...
> wrote:
> > hello i am new. i have been anti-news group but i think that i will give
it
> > a try
> > i am 21 i have been vegan for 7 years and i have worked at mcdonalds for
6
> > years. anyone suprised?
>
> No, I'm not surprised that your life has stagnated at 21 in the mire of
> veganism OR the drudgery of working at McD's. Why are you still working
> a cash register after six years? Why haven't you become a manager?
i am a manager, i am the resturant manager.
>
> > i read the post about the supersize me video. yes there is sugar in the
> > fries, and beef. i was chastised one day about telling a customer who
was
> > obviously trying to cut back on meat (she ordered a bigmac with tomatoes
> > instead of meat)
>
> As you should be. It's not your duty to assume customers are trying to
> "cut back on" anything.
recent suits would argue differently, i didn't assume she was cutting back
i just informed her.
> > i felt morally obgliated to tell her not to eat the fries.
>
> Why? Did she say she didn't want minute amounts of animal parts included
> in her meal? If so, why did you not warn her about the bun since it has
> dairy?
Enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour,
thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, reduced iron), water, high
fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, yeast, contains
less than 2 % of each of the following: salt, calcium sulfate, calcium
carbonate, calcium silicate, wheat gluten, soy flour, baking soda,
emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of fatty
acids, ethanol, sorbitol, polysorbate 20, potassium propionate), sodium
stearoyl lactylate, dough conditioner (corn starch, ammonium chloride,
ammonium sulfate, calcium peroxide, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide,
enzymes), calcium propionate (preservative
i will say that is a lot of junk but i think that for a budding vegan beef
is higher on the list then any of these chemicals. we have to start
somewhere.
>
> > what i really wanted to say, i was more disturbed over the segment on
public
> > schools. it made me sick. absoutly sick. i knew that i would never make
my
> > children eat a plate lunch, but now i am sure of it. i will send my
little
> > people to school with homemade baked tofu sandwiches on whole wheat
bread i
> > made yesterday, with tomato and sprouts, (humm, that sounds good) and
their
> > little juice box of soy milk. let the other kids poke fun, we'll see
who's
> > arteries are hardened by 12.
>
> And we'll see whose (NOT who's) hormones go bonkers because of the
> phytoestrogens in soy.
>
if i have baby rats i will keep that in mind. and i apoligize for my
spelling. i will blame it on being vegitarian. not eating meat affects the
ability to spell, expecially in the privacy of one's home while checking
e-mail in her underwear
> See:
> http://www.mothering.com/articles/gr...soy_story.html
>
> Rat pups, exposed to high doses of the plant estrogen coumestrol
> (found in sunflower seeds and oil and alfalfa sprouts) through
> their mother's milk, suffered permanent reproductive problems:
> female pups when grown did not ovulate, and males had altered
> mounting behavior and fewer ejaculations (2).
> [Whitten, P., C. Lewis and F. Naftolin. 1993. A Phytoestrogen
> diet induces the premature anovulatory syndrome in lactationally
> exposed female rats. Biology of Reproduction 49:1117-21.]
>
> Neonatal and immature rats exposed to coumestrol experienced
> estrogen-related responses, such as premature estrous cycles.
> Coumestrol also interrupted ovarian cycles in adult female rats
> (3).
> [Barrett, J. 1996. Phytoestrogens: Friends or Foes?
> Environmental Health Perspectives 104:478-82.]
>
> Newborn rats exposed to the phytoestrogen genistein (a compound
> found in soy products), experienced altered hormone secretions
> and the onset of puberty may have been delayed because female
> rats were exposed to the compound as fetuses (3).
> [Ibid.]
>
> “In males, levels of 17B-estradiol and testosterone were not
> affected, but levels of 3a, 17B- androstanediol glucuronide (a
> metabolite of dihydrotestosterone) and dehydroepiandrosterone
> sulfate were decreased by 13% and 14%, respectively, after 2-4
> weeks of daily soya ingestion.”
> [Supported by USPHS CA56273, CA65628, CA45181, John Sealy
> Memorial Endowment Fund for Biomedical Research, American
> Institute for Cancer Research grant 95B119, and NIH NCRR GCRC
> grant M01 RR00073]
>
> All above lifted from:
> http://www.cheapbodybuildingsu pplements.com/articles/soyestrogen.shtml
>
> Additionally, see:
> http://www.t-mag.com/articles/185soy.html
> http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/satter6.htm