Posted on 07/06/2003 11:28:59 AM PDT by mvpel
It is unfortunate that Gov. Pataki gave them the ammunition they needed to make a consistent case for a ban on meat-eating in the state - that just goes to show you what happens when government overreaches its constitutional limits.
Also note that this author makes reference to Peter Singer, the infamous proponent of infanticide of disabled newborns, and states that "the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee."
These are the kind of people who want to weild government force against you and your family. Think about it.
--Boris
Why oh why do these veggie fundies keep on referring to the rest of us normal folk as 'carnivores'? I love meat, but an average meal consists of at least an equal amount of vegetable matter.
Are these weirdos so ili-educated that they don't know what 'omnivore' means?
Fortunately, this is a much harder battle. Second hand smoke has long been an annoyance to those of us who didn't smoke. And in many buildings the level of smoke in the air truly was a health hazard.
There is no such concern as "second hand meat". There is not even a health issue, since people who don't eat red meat tend to become anemic unless they take supplements. And vegetarians die younger than meat eaters.
Therefore they will have to win their battle either along idealogical lines, which I don't see happening. Except for the warning in scripture that in the last days men will say not to eat meat.
Or they will have to pitch an economic argument such as a cow only feeds 1 person, but 20 people could eat the grain that the cow consumes. Therefore it's obscene to eat meat when other people can only afford to eat grain. Or some nonesense like that.
Of course not, they don't have facts on their side... They will run the emotional campaign. History shows it works.
So the force of government coercion was applied to smokers because people couldn't be bothered to install adequate ventilation. Terrific.
All they have to do is make a compelling case against the impact of slaughterhouses and ranches on the environment and the health of those nearby, as they have been working hard on doing for pig farms and their effluent ponds, and voila, there's a second-hand meat case.
They argue that between heart disease, cholesterol, etc, that eating meat isn't healthy when compared to a vegetarian diet, which may be true.
Banning of smoking, and efforts to tax it out of existence, were considered nonsense 25 years ago. I don't think it's a wise idea to write these people off as nuts.
This sort of creeping fascism was why the Constitution specifically enumerated limited powers to the federal government.
My point exactly.
The food Nazi's, however, will affect everyone, and this should wake some people up to the fact that government is more than willing to allow tyranny of the minority.
Does not matter to me what the VEGGIE Kooks push through I'll still eat meat.
Hey all you VEGGIES, let me introduce myself; I'm Hannibal Lectors Cousin!
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And this differs from Fundies trying to ban gay sex how?
Vegans often use this argument, and it's entirely facetious. I ask them: Have you ever eaten feed-corn? Of all the wheat grown in California, wheat from only two very small microclimate regions has enough protein in it to be accepted by bakers; the rest of the grain, barley, wheat, etc., grown in here is too low in protein, and is fit only for stock consumpion.
In other words, the grain fed to livestock is not even close in quality to the grain eaten by humans! Hey, vegans -- there's a reason Ruminantia like cattle, deer, buffalo, goats, llamas, and other cud-chewing animals have four chambers in their stomachs!!! Those animals can eat and process stuf that we can't!!
*sigh* Vegetarians, especially vegans, are idiots, if often likeable idiots, every one of them. I have a lot of friends who are vegetarians, and I must say, they go down in my estimation when I learn they're vegetarians. I lose real respect for them. I ask them, don't they feel guilty for all the little critters they've killed directly and indirectly, by their advocacy of crop farming, which not only wipes out thousands of acres of land where formerly lived cute little foxes, birds, snakes, lizards, squirrels, deer, coyotes, bobcats, etc. etc. and replaces them with rows of crops, BUT which also diverts water from ecosystems in order to irrigate? I.E., how many animals died for that plate of broccoli?
Nor do they know what to say when I point out that vegan mammals such as manatees and deer and even horses have small brains for their body sizes, wherease omnivores and carnivores have much larger brain cases in proportion to their bodies. Why? Because protein is what builds brain tissue in any mammal foetus.
Vegans and vegatarians are harbingers of a New-Age Dark Age!
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