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katrine wrote:

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>>I have just read in my local newspaper that a hospital in the UK is
>>conducting a trial with 40 patients suffering from heart disease. They
>>are going to give them regular amounts of dark chocolate, you know, the

> 70% cocoa stuff which is suitable for vegans. They seem to think that it
> may help ward off heart attacks. Just the excuse I need to eat an extra
> bar a week.
>
> No there is never an excuse for overdoing anything.


Does that include abstaining from meat, dairy, and/or eggs and everything
containing derivatives and byproducts of the same simply because of
inflated, emotive concerns based on political propaganda about how animals
are (mis)treated?