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In Reply to: 'Factory Farms' are where ALL the meat you consume originate from posted by A.R. on November 08, 1999 at 09:18:22:

I apologize in that I have to inform you of the fact you are wrong. Ask any nutritionist, the most healthy diet is an omnivorous one. Many of the "expert nutritional scientists" you have got your facts from are probably vegans themselves and as such are willing to lie so long as it gets a few people to stop eating meat. And it may not even be "lying;" if they are conducting science experiments to prove something that they fervently support, they may inadvertantly give the wrong conclusion as it is what they themselves believe and as such their experiment was corrupted. People are omnivorous; that's why we have molars and canines. There are vitamins in meat which you just plain CANNOT get no matter how many plants you eat or vitamins you take.
My diet is unhealthy. It is constructed of about 75% red meat-based meals; I do not eat much pork because it's more expensive and refuse to eat any bird products because I raise parrots and have since I was ten. Birds are an integral part of my life and, though a chicken is considerably stupider than a macaw, cockatiel, amazon or even a budgie, I can't bring myself to eat one as it is still a bird.
But, I grew up on the outskirts of Seattle and (regretablty) in rural areas of Washington and Oregon. I was exposed to cattle and honestly cannot see why anyone would call a cow a beautiful animal; they are stupid, smelly animals that will walk into a river or channel unless it is fenced off. A cow doesn't necessarily deserve to die but it sure as hell isn't a loss. Even to other cows: I've witnessed newborn calves being born and separating; there's some mooing, a large wet splat and the calf is taken away, and the cow just goes back to doing whatever. The other cows do not notice the loss of their fallen comrade when it is slaughtered and go on grazing, defecating and occasionally humping another cow of the same gender. Wow... wait a minute... we've made cows martyrs for the vegetarian and vegan movements... why not martyrs of Women's Lib, feminism and man haters everywhere?
I now live in Cambridge, MA, one of the most liberal cities in the world. Here it is very cool to be vegetarian or vegan and nearly every girl from the ages of 12 to 30 is vegetarian (about one quarter of males from 16 to 20 as well). These are the ones who, when in conversation, go out of their way to point out that they don't eat meat and so they're ass is higher than yours. And I don't really care. None of these kids have ever lived in a low-class shithole where if you don't eat meat you'll starve. None of them have ever seen how a cow really acts; all they do is read crap on the internet about how a cow is as intelligent as a dog and is a majestic, beautiful creature. If it really is as smart as a dog, i really don't give a fuck because birds are truly majestic and the intelligence of Rocco, my newest bird, a three month old budgie (often called a parakeet, which is wrong) is already far beyond that of a dog. He can sing "Bugman" by Blur on command, recognizes his name and loves to play games. I've never seen a cow do that before. Why? Because they are STUPID, people. Get it through your plant-encased skulls to the meat within.
Also, I'm sick of lists of great philosophers and celebrities who are vegans. Here's another well known veg: ADOLF HITLER. That's right, folks. The most evil man ever to live was a VEGETARIAN. Just because you don't murder animals doesn't mean you can't be evil.

Respond, please. I love debates.

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McSpotlight: Good heavens, will people continue to trot out this "Hitler was a vegetarian, ergo vegetarianism is wrong" argument?; for the record, Einstein, Ghandi and Leonardo da Vinci were also vegetarians; it's a completely bogus argument to bring up the old Hitler canard.

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