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Default Anti-Vegetarian Article in Denver paper

Actually,

I don't see it as anti-vegetarian. His writings reflect the same
attitude as most meat eaters. However, it looks to me like he is using
the press as an outlet to test his poorly written comedy routine.


MarkW wrote:
> 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.
>
> Write to Bruce at .