I am attaching a link and the article of the Denver newspaper from
today, Saturday. It is very anti-vegetarian and I guess i was just
shocked at some of the comments made. He's so out of line. At the
end of the letter is his email and I plan to email him and maybe
others want to do the same. Of course as you can see the way he talks
about his sister he seems very arrogant:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...658338,00.html

Cameron: Vegetarianism just doesn't hold up to close scrutiny

W. Bruce Cameron
April 29, 2006
My sister thinks she's smarter than I am, just because she got better
grades in school, bested me in SAT scores and has a higher IQ. But
while I've gone on to use my English major to serve mankind to great
effect as a newspaper columnist, all she's managed to do is become a
doctor. "You're an internist," I point out kindly, "not a brain
surgeon or anything."
"Whereas you're a humor columnist," she shoots back.

"You just proved my point," I say smugly. "Humor columnist is sort of
the brain surgery of writing."

Another area of disagreement has to do with her being a vegetarian,
while I'm tolerant of all people regardless of their food groups. My
attitude is "let me eat steak."

Some people are vegetarians because they believe it's healthier both
for themselves and for cattle. Others eschew meat because they believe
that when you die you're reincarnated as an animal, and they don't
want to accidentally turn Uncle Bob into pot roast. My sister,
however, is a vegetarian because she wants to irritate me. She denies
that this is her motivation, but how would she know?

She's visiting me right now, opening my refrigerator and saying things
like "You eat liverwurst? Are you crazy?" I point out that it's a
little ironic to accuse me of being the crazy one when she's the
person shouting at kitchen appliances. Eventually she calms down and
says that even though I eat meat, she loves me. I respond that even
though she eats twigs, I'm always right about everything.

In spending time with my sister, I've found out several things about
vegetarians that I'll relate here because I believe we should all be
aware of subversive threats to our survival.

First, there is a difference between a lacto-vegetarian and a
lactating vegetarian. My sister is the first kind. She became a little
testy with me when I kept telling waitresses that she was the second
kind, so if you're out to lunch with a vegetarian, try to avoid this
common-sense mistake.

Second, vegetarians won't eat a BLT, because technically bacon is not
a vegetable. They won't make exceptions to this even when you rather
logically point out that once you've eaten it, you can't see the
bacon.

Third, vegetarians get in a really bad mood when all you're trying to
do is find out whether, if they were on a desert island with nothing
to eat but hamburgers, they would starve or eat a delicious burger
and, if that's the case, why we can't just go out for a burger now
since obviously it's not that important to her. They also don't like
to entertain arguments that, under certain situations, pork could be
considered a fruit. And when you tell them they're just snippy because
they're hungry, they get even more snippy, which, if you think about
it, sort of proves my point.

My sister originally gave up eating meat because she didn't want to
have things killed on her behalf, though after about an hour of
listening to my comments about it, she seems willing to be make an
exception for me. "Hey," I hooted triumphantly, "you have plants
killed all the time on your behalf! What's the difference?"

She was actually able to come up with a few, but I was too busy
declaring myself the winner of the debate to pay any attention to her
rebuttal.

The next time we went out to lunch, I told the waitress that my sister
can't eat meat because she's a vegetarian and that I can't eat plants
because I'm a planetarium. The woman had a big laugh at my sister's
expense.

Now, if you're reading this and you're a vegetarian, please don't
think I'm making fun of you. There must be something to the whole "not
killing animals, plus it's healthier for you" thing, because otherwise
my sister wouldn't do it. I love my sister and respect her opinion
about a lot of things, just not roast beef, and will always listen to
her carefully so I can make fun of her. And she's a good sport about
it, even if she is only a doctor.

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