--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> new.morning wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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.
>
I ate a vegetarian diet during most of my 20's, and always craved
sugar because I wasn't getting enough protein- couldn't hack it.
Used to eat meat three times a day as a kid. Couldn't do that again
either.
