new.morning wrote:
> --- In [email protected], t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
>>
>> <big snip>
>>
>>
>>> Recruit
>>> them from kids who grew up on the myths created by people
>>> like Gandhi or Buddha or Martin Luther King, and who can
>>> thus think of more than two solutions to the problems of
>>> the world.
>>>
>> Why the Buddha? Buddha wasn't shot, he just died of poisoned meat.
>>
>>
> <snip>
> And in the modern age, eating meat, and supporting the whole caged
> meat industry complex, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions
> -- methane in particular. Global warming doesn't seem to be a divine
> reward for righteous activity.
>
Let's try some performance tests of a westerner wannabe vegetarian and a
western meat eater against a Indian whose ancestor were vegetarians for
centuries. My bet is the Indian would way out perform the wannabe
vegetarian but be on a par with the western meat eater. Unfortunately
meat eating is a curse that for most of us was given to us by our
ancestors. Most of us with the curse have learned long ago with little
forays into vegetarianism it wouldn't work for us. In fact two weeks
into my first foray in 1972 I had a check-up from an ND who asked me if
I was a vegetarian. I told him I had been experimenting with it for two
weeks and he told me "you're already showing signs of anemia so you
can't be a vegetarian." He recommended that I include some animal
protein two or three times a week. Now for most westerners that would
be a considerable reduction in their animal protein intake and probably
the most reasonable way to go. As with many things, your mileage may vary.
