[cyborg]

:sigh: I want to be on the Atkins ping list. However, I work in a health food store frequented by a lot of militant vegans. When a man found out I eat meat, he told me eggs are the periods of chickens and fish eat dead carcasses (as scavenging). I am very serious. He really grossed me out about the chicken thing and talked about how harmful meat is.

I wonder how many other people who do low-carb run into this all the time? BTW I asked him what he thought of Atkins and he said, what happened to him? I said he died falling on ice. He said, good he's not around to tell people to eat meat :-(

[carlo3b]

Welcome aboard... Tell the skeptic to GO TO another HEALTH food store..

[Yeti]

He said, good he's not around to tell people to eat meat :-(

Tell someone like that to smile when s/he says that. When(if) s/he does, compliment his/her canine teeth.

Or: look deeply into their eyes, very sincerely, and say, "Deep inside you, something is speaking to me... I'ts saying, 'I am [person's name]`s appendix, and I want you to know s/he is confused.'"

[jammer]

Tell him that plants eat sheep do-do.

[grimalkin]

He sounds like an a**... just smile and then forget about it.

I don't normally discuss how I eat with others. If they ask, I say that I don't eat sugar and flour. If they throw a bunch of negative opinions my way, I just say it's my business and not theirs.

[kancel]

At this year's fair there was one of those vegan people with the video of the cows living a thousand heads to a cubic foot cage. It was all I could do not to go buy the fattest juiciest tastiest onion burger and stand in front of her booth and eat it. I mean they are cows, they re-eat the contents of their stomachs for crying out loud.

I guess I am just not that compassionate when it comes to my food. However in all honesty if I could afford free range "happy cow" beef (or chicken etc.) then I would simply because I really don't want all the growth hormones and nasty stuff in my meat. It is so expensive though. It would be nice if market demand for "clean" meat would increase enough that the price could come down drastically.

[Tony in Hawaii]

What did he say after you broke his jaw?

(Just kidding, folks.)