"MarkW" > wrote in message
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>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:

It's satire. Lighten up, Francis.

>
> 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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