Guest guest Posted June 17, 2002 Report Share Posted June 17, 2002 On 17/6/02 7:05 AM, " vegan-network " <vegan-network > wrote: > The punishment is for decisions and actions, but the actions and decisions > can be, and often in the case of crimes, are the results of various more > fundamental causes I was kind of amused by the hardline Macrobiotic opinion that the people that were in prisons need to be in hospitals, because they criminal insanity was caused by bad food and lifestyle, and the people in hospitals should be put in prison for the crime of abusing their body and the environment. A touch over simplified perhaps but it touches on my sympathies. There was one famous study where a penitentiary in the US changed the diet of the inmates to one that was macrobiotic in nature and cases of violence and unrest etc dropped by a huge factor. It is crazy to fill folk full of high protein, high energy " yang-ed up " food when they are going to locked up for 23 hours a day. An enlightened prison services would just limit their prisons to a light veggie diet, cut out the sugar and cigarette. Of course, the prisoners would go cold turkey for a week or so before slipping into a laid back monastic calm. And it is harder to smuggle Mars bars into jail than it is heroin or crack cocaine ... I can hear the liberal whining already about " rights " . On the hospital side, another study in the UK calculated that the average vegetarian cost the health serve more that 45,000 UKP less than an average omnivore. When you stop out side a hospital and see all the folk hugely overweight and congested out smoking cigarette it make you wonder why we bother patching them up. Freedom of expression and come to freedom to self abuse and cost society hugely.. Eat a beef burger and we cut off your right hand. john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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