[lysol@whitehouse]

Brilliant! Let's hear it for obesity, heart attacks, slaughter houses, and tasty charred animals. Who gives a poop about suffering when taste buds cry out for sumptuous deceased and putrified animals?? With a modicum of cooking knowledge a plant-based diet is delicious, healthy, and full of energy. I work out each day, and have MUCH more energy than my meat eating friends. I wonder how many meat-eaters could tour a typical slaughter house operation and then defend this outrage?? BTW the Vegi-Burger at Burger King along with a dry baked potato loaded with chives make a great alternative lunch for those interested in changing fast food habits.

[Trickyguy]

No society in history has been vegetarian. The reason is
because vegetarian mothers have sickly, brain-damaged
babies. You're leaving in a crackpot fantasy land, and I hope to God you have no children.

[ProudGOP]

You must have missed this line.

I wasn't one of those vegetarians who felt the urge to lecture meat-eaters about the wrongness of their ways

[jeremiah]

Warning: Vegetarians lives are shorter than meat eaters. Look it up.

[tob2]

I have tried to be a vegan but found that my protein needs are higher than offered in a fruit and vegetgable diet. Coupled with the fact that I'm allergic to legumes (soy beans being one with the most protein and peanuts too), a vegan diet is not suitable for me. There are many wonderful and tasty offerings from a vegan menue and I frequently use them. The conflict I had over eating meat is now gone. I do as the Native Americans do, bless the soul of the animal which is contributing to my meal, my shoes, my clothing. While I'm sympathatic with efforts to reduce cruelty to animals, I find the tactics used to force everyone to be a vegetarian nauseating. Life is not "one size fits all". Bullying and terrorism are just that, no matter who does it and no matter what the cause. People should be allowed to choose own their eating plan and given all the information available necessary to make an informed choice. BTW, I have found Burger King's veggie burger lacking. It's soggy, thin and falls apart quickly. Garden burgers from the frozen foods section of the grocery store is much, much better.

[William Terrell]

Seems mad to base one's diet on a philosophy rather what one's body needs. To survive, vegans and vegetarians have to use commercial suppliments produced only by a high technology. Vegans are especially vulnerable since they don't eat dairy products and dairy products are necessary, with grains and legumes, to balance the proportions of four essential amino acids needed to make a vegetarian protein. Animal tissue is complete and perfect without hassle or high technology.

Human beings started off hunter/gatherers. Uncovered remains of hunter/gatherers yield strong bones, healthy and complete sets of teeth. Uncovered remains of later agricultural phases yield the opposite.

Every thing known about the human body points to the fact that we are omnivours designed to get our protein from animal muscle tissue. You keep trying to combine those amino acids; I'll use that which is already perfect.

[Kevin Curry]

Brilliant! Let's hear it for . . . tasty charred animals.

Ummmmmmmmm. Tasty charred animals.

As an experiment to get my cholesterol and trigylicerides down a bit (I am not overweight, but my triglycerides have always been a bit on the high side) I once without without eating meat for four months. Toward the end of it, I went to a luncheon where prime rib was served. After the meal was over and the speaker had started, but before the plates had all been cleared away I remember detecting the odor of decomposing flesh. It was quite pungent and unpleasant.

I started eating meat again the next week and haven't noticed the odor since.

[lafroste]

You sir are obviously an ill-informed, cliche spewing drone.

[rlwinston]

Your a Veggie that good for you if you are happy thats good for you.....but do not lecture the rest of us who enjoy eating meat and are quite happy with it and on how superior you are to us because you are a veggie. MIND YOUR OWN BUSNESS PLEASE!!!!

[T Minus Four]

BTW the Vegi-Burger at Burger King along with a dry baked potato loaded with chives make a great alternative lunch for those interested in changing fast food habits.

GAAAAAAAKKKK! I tried one once as an experiment. Ghastly! I didn't expect it to taste like meat, but I expected it to at least taste like food!

[discostu]

I toured a typical slaughterhouse operation when I was a kid (growing up in the former meat processing capital of America, Chicago, that's done under the auspices of learning local history). Made me hungry. Thinking about it again makes me hungry. Meat good. And properly prepared and portioned it leads to no more health problems than veggies, fewer actually because there are proteins in meat that you quite simply MUST have for prolonged health.