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PETA: Make Meat Eaters Pay Bigger Premiums
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting. ^ | Friday, November 14, 2008 | TV WPTZ

Posted on 11/16/2008 9:13:18 AM PST by poobear

Animals Rights Group Approaches Blue Cross Blue Shield

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called on Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont to raise health insurance premiums for people who eat meat and lower the premiums for vegetarians, Plattsburgh, Vt., television station WPTZ reported.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalwhackos; health; medicine; peta
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1 posted on 11/16/2008 9:13:19 AM PST by poobear
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To: poobear

Better idea: Let’s surcharge vegetarians for making us prepare special menus.


2 posted on 11/16/2008 9:14:40 AM PST by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: poobear

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Eating_veggies_shrinks_the_brain/articleshow/3480629.cms

Eating veggies shrinks the brain

MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer
brain shrinkage.

Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system.


3 posted on 11/16/2008 9:17:39 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: TommyDale

Even better idea:Feed all their veggies to my horses and cattle.


4 posted on 11/16/2008 9:18:20 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Texas Eagle
Eating veggies shrinks the brain

Figures that vegetarians would be dumber than the average human....

5 posted on 11/16/2008 9:19:32 AM PST by freebilly
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To: poobear

I worked with a woman who was a vegitarian a number of years ago. She was out sick a total of 35 times in three months. Was always getting a cold or some such other ailment.


6 posted on 11/16/2008 9:20:14 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: freebilly
Figures that vegetarians would be dumber than the average human....

Vegetables eating vegetables. Isn't that cannibalism? Sort of.

7 posted on 11/16/2008 9:21:02 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: poobear

Under the same logic, gays should pay more for health & life insurance, as the lifestyle is inherently more risky.


8 posted on 11/16/2008 9:21:04 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (ESPN MNF: 3 Putzes talking about football on TV while I'm trying to watch a game.)
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To: poobear

Does PETA have an official mascot? Let’s kidnap it and eat it, and put the menu on a billboard.


9 posted on 11/16/2008 9:21:16 AM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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Make Meat Eaters Pay Bigger Premiums

Great idea.

But, aren't there also some medical problems associated with lack of meat in people's diets? Shouldn't those people have to pay higher premiums for not eating meat?

BTW, aren't people already paying higher premiums, sort of, by paying for the meat they eat? Meat can be or is more expensive than vegetables and fruits.
10 posted on 11/16/2008 9:21:40 AM PST by adorno
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To: poobear

I say charge vegans a higher premium for being malnurished.


11 posted on 11/16/2008 9:22:10 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Texas Eagle

Vegetables are what food eats.


12 posted on 11/16/2008 9:22:12 AM PST by dfwgator (I hate Illinois Marxists)
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To: poobear

These are the same freaks who demanded that Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream use only human breast milk to make their ice cream>

YYYYUUUUUUUCCCCCK!!!!!


13 posted on 11/16/2008 9:23:06 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: poobear

Just illustrates how government mandates are not intended to help people, but rather to control them.


14 posted on 11/16/2008 9:23:20 AM PST by Safrguns
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To: TommyDale
Better idea: Let’s surcharge vegetarians for making us prepare special menus.

And because I find that cigar smokers generally have better dispositions and have to put up with crabby people who are not cigar smokers, I think there should be a special tax on people who do not smoke cigars. I propose that it be double the meat-eater's tax; and that the meat-eater tax be waived for cigar smokers.

ML/NJ

15 posted on 11/16/2008 9:26:59 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: poobear
People Eating Tasty Animals
16 posted on 11/16/2008 9:27:40 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: poobear
PETA should stand for:

People Eating Tasty Animals



If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made 'em outta meat!
17 posted on 11/16/2008 9:27:40 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: headstamp 2

I think it’s hard for vegans to get high enough quality and variety and ENOUGH protein.

Good quality proteins are absolutely essential for the immune system, which is creating and diposing of cells and chemical messengers by the truckload.


18 posted on 11/16/2008 9:28:59 AM PST by djf (The harsh reality of life is that reality is harsh.)
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To: headstamp 2

I had a vegetarian boss at one time. He was perpetually sick and he finally got a cold that just wouldn’t go away even after he went to his naturopath at read the latest vegan diet book.

I finally got tired of his coughing, sneezing, and whining and told him to go home tonight and eat a steak.

He actually did and came in the next morning and told me he felt much better and had much more energy.

He looked much better and had more color in his face. He had a classic case of anemia.

He seemed much happier after that.


19 posted on 11/16/2008 9:29:32 AM PST by seowulf (Discipline knows no emotion and frequently runs counter to the whims of panic or elation.)
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To: freebilly

Not only that. Have you seen what the average vegan looks like? Pale....anorexic...sunken eyes....like death warmed over. Heroin addicts look like the picture of health compared to them.


20 posted on 11/16/2008 9:30:08 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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