Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
>Yes, I've heard the sick joke "A vegetarian eats vegetables. I'm a
>humanitarian." If you try eating NOTHING but meat though, you'll get
>scurvy (unless you're an Eskimo, or a Maori herder in Arfrica or somebody
>whose physiology is adapted to animal protein that way.)
Um, the Maori live in New Zealand, and as far as I know they eat
anything. Is there some tribe called the Maori in Africa too?
There's quite a few problems you'll end up with besides scurvy, and
actually that goes for most animals- ever seen a dog eating grass when he
doesn't feel well? He's trying to clean out his digestive tract. The only
mammalian exception, AFAIK, is cats, who are "true carnivores" and can
survive on meat alone. Everybody else gets ill.
>
>Kristin
>carnivores can e self righteous too I know
I'm an omnivore. I even eat cafeteria lunches, and believe me, that says
something. But, incidentally, humans aren't really adapted to eating only
vegetables either- I've seen quite a few vegetarians send themselves into
various degrees of malnutrition that way, especially if they were
good-sized people to start with. It's very hard to get the amount of
energy you need from veggies alone.
Is that righteous enough? <grin>
Kat Feete
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