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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (106431)	6/23/2005 2:42:45 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Once I found out that beef cows are fed chicken feces with dead chickens in it and cow blood do you like mushrooms? Did you know that manure and even decomposing vegetable matter is actually used to fertilize plants! and people eat plants! <shudder> addition to being shot full of antibiotics and contaminated with pesticides, steak didn't taste so good, either. Did you know that it takes 50,000 gallons of water to grow one pound of beef, incidentally? Meat production on the scale we are doing it is very bad environmentally. And unlike early man, who only ate meat occasionally, we eat it every day. So the health effects are much more deadly. sounds like a strong argument for only eating meat that is hunted in the wild. It also sounds like you are arguing for eating eat in moderation and not stop altogether. At least based on health reasons. Hell, I can go for the moderation thing. you list "meat eaters" and "plant eaters"...what about omnivores? why aren't they included? btw: it was mentioned in one of the other posts about how quickly plant matter goes through our digestive system. Well, ummm, that's cuz much of it is indigestable. And that ain't necessarily a bad thing. It turns out that a omnivorous diet speeds the meat right through the system... It seems that the reasons that you attribute to meat not tasting good are based on emotional responses and not your natural physiological response to meat. I assure you that a thick NY steak, raw or otherwise gets my salivary glands working overtime. It turns out that my son is primarily a vegetarian, with the exception of bacon, an occasional hot dog and chicken nuggets. I suspect that he likes the salt mostly. Personally, I would never force him to eat something that he doesn't want. His best friend loves meat. Meat of all kinds. Simply ravenous with things I would never touch. His parents don't get it, they only eat meat one day a week. Maybe some of us have a natural disposition to primarily like meat, some of us have a natural disposition to primarily like vegetables. And they are both perfectly natural.