dh@. wrote :
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:55:01 -0600, 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:
It was HUMOR, and he even says in the article that he's a
humorist!
Take 25 cents and buy a cheap sense of humor!
> · Vegans contribute to the deaths of animals by their use of
> wood and paper products, electricity, roads and all types of
> buildings, their own diet, etc... just as everyone else does.
> What they try to avoid are products which provide life
> (and death) for farm animals, but even then they would have
> to avoid the following in order to be successful:
>
> Tires, Paper, Upholstery, Floor waxes, Glass, Water
> Filters, Rubber, Fertilizer, Antifreeze, Ceramics,
> Insecticides, Insulation, Linoleum, Plastic, Textiles, Blood
> factors, Collagen, Heparin, Insulin, Solvents, Biodegradable
> Detergents, Herbicides, Gelatin Capsules, Adhesive Tape,
> Laminated Wood Products, Plywood, Paneling, Wallpaper and
> Wallpaper Paste, Cellophane Wrap and Tape, Abrasives, Steel
> Ball Bearings
Yeah, there's no way to have a modern life without them, and
there's no way to live without killing, unless they have a way to
become such a highly spiritual being that they don't need to eat
living things anymore. ( whatever
> The meat industry provides life for the animals that it
> slaughters, and the animals live and die as a result of it
> as animals do in other habitats. They also depend on it for
> their lives as animals do in other habitats. If people consume
> animal products from animals they think are raised in decent
> ways, they will be promoting life for more such animals in the
> future.
Absolutely, supply and demand at work. Want to keep elephants
from becoming extinct? Farm them and eat them! And while you're
at it, you should breed them smaller and smaller so they don't
eat everything in sight.
In their natural habitat they destroy jungles and forests. Shame
on them!
> People who want to contribute to decent lives for
> livestock with their lifestyle must do it by being
> conscientious consumers of animal products, because they can
> not do it by being vegan.
> From the life and death of a thousand pound grass raised
> steer and whatever he happens to kill during his life, people
> get over 500 pounds of human consumable meat...that's well
> over 500 servings of meat.
And all you gotta do is feed them GRASS. How bad is THAT? They're
vegans! LOL!
That reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw: Save an animal, eat
a vegan.
> From a grass raised dairy cow
> people get thousands of dairy servings.
Yeah, AND meat. What could be more environmentally friendly.
Input grass and get meat and dairy products!
> Due to the influence
> of farm machinery, and *icides, and in the case of rice the
> flooding and draining of fields, one serving of soy or rice
> based product is likely to involve more animal deaths than
> hundreds of servings derived from grass raised animals. Grass
> raised animal products contribute to fewer wildlife deaths,
> better wildlife habitat, and better lives for livestock than
> soy or rice products. ·
AND if you soy milk drinking women are wondering why you're so
cranky, the soy interferes with estrogen absorption in the body.
That's why Asian women are so flat chested and have less breast
cancer because of it. But for those of us who NEED our hormones,
that's not a good thing.
--
Ms. Libertarian - United States of America