Hi Lenny, I've taken this opportunity to respond after reading your recent post on GoaNet. I too was of the same opinion until a few years ago when I tried vegetarianism on a whim in an effort to curb an ever-expanding waistline. It was after a few months of realizing that I actually could survive without meat that I started investigating the roots of cultural and religious vegetarianism. One of the first books on the subject that I read was 'Diet for a Small Planet' written by Frances Moore Lappe (actually her specialty was ecomomics!) over 30 years ago. Many of the ideas in that book hold true today and unfortunately not much has changed. I would encourage you and others who have the time and inclination to read this book - it just might change your attitude towards meat eating. Here's a review of the issue by someone you might trust: http://americamagazine.org/gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=1&textID=3709&issueID=4 93 Frances and her daughter, Anna, have made this their mission in life: http://www.smallplanetinstitute.org/
Several books later, I encountered an interesting book by Canadian Michael A. Fox entitled 'Deep Vegetarianism' and it put many other aspects of meat eating into perspective. Here are some of the online reviews to pique your 'appetite' http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj11/nagendra1.html http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/reviews/vegetarianism.htm Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON. ps. Approach vegetarianism with caution! It just might change your worldview /ks --------------------------- Message: 8 Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:29:10 -0400 From: lenny dsouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Christian Goanet. Religion-bashing & Bigotry (attn. G.Pinto) To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello All, Well I think there should not be any ban on cow slaughter, firstly there are people like me who are good beef eaters and mutton nowdays is really costly. Secondly, no one should support this ban, the reason is today there is ban on cow slaughter and serving, the next will be on pigs slaughter and serving them, please have a heart and dont start a new war, we already have enough problems on hand in society today. These things must not be given any air. i sincerely appeal to all to stop these topics, can only cause more harm than good, beef is served, let it be served and the poor man eat one meal. Lenny -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
