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[Dan The Chainsawman]

Cause cows taste good.

[hojucandy]

cultboy - "blasphemy" is your invention - i don't believe in it. no-one can hide behind the charge of blasphemy. least of all a fake guru like prabhupad.

the most offensive post on this thread is the OP.

vegetarianism is a good thing. but it does nothing to benefit your mind or your spiritual state. most of the people yu listed as vegetarian are hardly great people! vegetarianism is is just one more thing to add to the burden of spiritial pride that props up your elitist belief system.

yu fundimentalists make me sick.

i'm going to bed.

[Demonicat]

Well written response RD, now allow me to retort.
Having been to more than a handful of 3rd world countries I can safely say that going vegan isn't going to do it for most of them. The proper mix of amino acids and nutrients required for a vegatrain diet to be sustaining is prohibitive in areas like West Africa or Latin America. To get a proper vegan diet, as you are no doubt aware requires a mix of various plantas and legumes- things which are very hard to come by in desert and jungle areas, the areas that house most of the world's poor. Switching to veganism is hard in ways not dealing with foodstuffs as well. Telling a 3rd world people group to not use leather goods is tantamount to a death sentance. They don't have ready access to plastic and have no way of sidposing it properly. The same goes for any synthetic material, most of which are based off of petroleum byproducts. And there we have the rub. Which is more harmful to the world and causes more suffering, the sarificing of a few million cows, chickens, and goats or the polluting of the earths river and streams, the clear cutting of rain forests (yes this involves cattle too), and the destruction of the atmosphere in search for petroleum in order to make synthetics. Before it gets said, cotton and hemp won't do as substitutes- can you fashion a hemp bicycle wheel?
To touch upon your other note, yes the traditional energy cycle arguement (1 lb of flesh=10 lbs of corn) is true in a perfect world. In the real world, too many influencers stand in the way. In a perfect world we could do well to be vegetarian, but ours is not a perfect world. BTW, I did serve 2 years in Mali, West Africa with the US Peace Corps. I think in my tenure there I helped save many peoples lives from starvation, I helped create a cottage industry which allowed the village to save for a watering pump, and I gave the men of the village a renewable source of protein. My job with the Peace Corps? Raising rabbits for human consumption and teaching the host country nationals how to skin and dress a rabbit hide for commercial purposes.

[Babayaga]

I may be wrong, but I think I know why so many great thinkers have been vegetarians. As Tolstoy has said in one of his works, rich food stimulates the sexual drive, which, in my opinion, may distract people from pursuing meaningful activities. Perhaps people who eat plain food, are not irritated either sexually or otherwise (as in, getting rashes or feeling hyper ),and, therefore, can dedicate themeselves to thinking,etc.


From personal experience, I know that when I eat less,and when I haven't eaten for a number of hours and just drank water, I feel an uplifting surge in energy .

[red dog]

[mithridates]

Translation for the word from the original Greek regarding the fish:

{ikh-thoos'}
1) a fish

Root word for ichthyosaurus and all the others.

www.greekbible.com

[red dog]

About greatness/superiority/elitism, actually I'm one of the weakest people I know. It's obvious that many people here on these boards are a lot smarter, stronger and better educated than I'll ever be. I think all that shows is that even the most ordinary people are capable of making big changes in their lives if they really try. If enough average, non-great people put forth their best efforts to make more humane choices, eventually the slaughter industries will have to shut down. I don't think the OP was offensive, although Rteacher's conclusions may have been a bit exaggerated. He provided a list of people -- some great, others a lot more like the rest of us -- who made/are making a difference for animals in their daily lives. So what if Jesus turns out to have been a real person who wasn't veg? Does that really mean we can't do any better here and now?

[Dan The Chainsawman]

I agree lets celebrate over a nice rare rack of lamb.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

yah know I was only into this thread with my normal trollish glee for mayhem. Now I find myself sick as a dog.

Michael Jackson?

Chelesa Clinton?

Quote:

JUSTIN FRIGGIN TIMBERLAKE??????

[EFLtrainer]

[EFLtrainer]

[EFLtrainer]

[Bo Peabody]

Chris Rock says,

[Rteacher]

I think Chris Rock is qualified for the "list of great vulgar comedians with practically no sense of real spirituality or good taste"...

(Clearly, there are no great thinkers among the ranks of non-vegetarians who have posted on this thread...)

[peppermint]