Posted on 12/27/2009 11:06:05 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has never made any bones, if you will, about her culinary preferences. She's a carnivore, a hunter and proud of both.
So it's not really a surprise that her book, "Going Rogue," published today, extols the virtues of eating meat.
"If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore," she wrote. "If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”
But the former Republican vice presidential candidate did not stop there.
“I love meat," she writes. "I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals -- right next to the mashed potatoes.”
A vegetarian from Cleveland took issue with Palin. In a blog on the Examiner, Daelyn Fourtney wrote that Palin's remarks "will surely receive a chuckle and thumbs up from many avid hunters and steak house patrons. It is a sad statement on our society when we applaud those who refer to animals as the centerpiece of their dinner plate."
Now, Fourtney is reporting that she has received a lot of hostile e-mails from conservatives assuming her to be a left-wing pinko. A sampling of her inbox:
* “The liberal/socialist media elites are terrified of America's new Reagan and it's so much fun to see their PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) on display...including this Fortney writer.” –freeperjim
“Politicizing Food now?...is nothing sacred? ... off, Alinksy Vegan Radicals.” – Tyler(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
I got Sarah’s book for Christmas. The person who gave it to me said it was hidden in Barnes & Noble and the snot nosed libtard got an attitude when she had to get it for for my friend.
It seems that they subsist on fish, reindeer and lingon berries.
That's a far more carnivorous diet than the average dog or cat gets in modern America.
It's tasty though.
no Freeperjim in the Freep database...
“The person who gave it to me said it was hidden in Barnes & Noble”
I’ve seen several people complaint about both B&N and Borders hiding Going Rogue, but yet it remains the best selling non-fiction book at both chains. That just shows you that people are asking for the book, and getting it, no matter how much the clerks and managers hate it.
* “The liberal/socialist media elites are terrified of America's new Reagan and it's so much fun to see their PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) on display...including this Fortney writer.” –freeperjim
Apparently it is all right for her to make hostile, whiney, bitchy comments in her column but a grave assault on the 1st Amendment for us to respond in kind.
Hey, you are famous!
“freeperjim”?
What an obvious put up job.
My sister gave me many gifts for Christmas. One of them was Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” and the other was Glenn Beck’s “Arguing with Idiots.” Both came from a Sam’s Club in Maine. The book’s were not hidden by the staff, and from what I heard, there was no attitude from the staff. Both Sarah and Glenn have a lot of fans in Maine.
So, opposing views are attacks? It was okay to mouth off about Sarah. Can’t take it, huh, salad eater?
If she is your typical liberal, her “believe in the sanctity of life for all creatures” probably stops right at the door of unborn babies.
LOL!
Vegetarians are also genocidal maniacs. They know very well that carnivorous humans MUST eat meat to live.
Freeperjim must not know how to use bow and arrows! Hey freeperjim read Genesis 1: 26..you betcha!
# The LATimes story about my article was also posted on HuffPost http://bit.ly/6feppB about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
Just sent a response to her on The Examiner:
Hi Daelyn --
I didn't hear a lot of love or tolerance coming from you for what is clearly an individual lifestyle choice.
Attempting to disparage one dietary regimen "ab initio" (from the get-go, more or less) is divisive and counterproductive. Some people (adrenal fatigue) react badly to soy, some have Celiac disease; many are lactose intolerant; others do better on animal protein.
I say, hats off to Sarah for eating free-range, organic meat, instead of supporting the etiolated offerings from a heartless multinational corporation. Responsible stewardship of the herd (to prevent overpopulation followed by starvation), together with eating what one culls, rather than leaving it as waste, should be applauded.
What is the carbon footprint of an adult moose/caribou anyway?
One last -- are you a pure vegan or ovo-lacto-vegetarian? Do you prefer to grow your own or belong to a co-op? Or do you endorse progressive grocers such as Trader Joes and Whole Foods?
Cheers!
Sarah’s just doing the job that illegal aliens at factory farms won’t do: killing overpopulated, wild animal populations as quickly and humanely as possible.
P.S. All you have to do after you’re done preparing beans and rice is throwing the husks in the compost. The beans and rice do not bleed.
And, actually, we are not strictly carnivores.
We are omnivores. But I lean to to the carnivorous side.
That reminds me, I have to get that venison jerky into the smoker. Yum.
I know this has already been mentioned, but, she must be one of them radical right-to-lifers then. Right?
Would come as a surprise to the hundreds of millions of humans over the centuries who lived their entire lives without tasting meat.
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