Teasing

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Love it! I love straight forward people! I'm enjoying this too, it

really makes this list more " human " if that makes any sense! Ha! People

who are so stupid to say that plants are the same as animals deserve a

blunt answer! Vicki

 

Message: 19

Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:00:43 -0700 (PDT)

" S. Perez " <sperez60565

Re: teasing

 

I absolutely love these comments..they seem so well thought out and

compelling Some replies that I have given during the course of the

past

10 years include:

 

> " You can't possibly get all the vitamins & minerals you need " <

hmmm..neither do most Americans with their fat-laden diets. thus, the

booming herbal and vitamin industry (which most certainly includes

non-veggies..just not enough of us to support the sales)

> " You can't be healthy " <

We'll discuss this issue further when you are lying in the hospital bed

with

clogged arteries and an erratic heartbeat.

> " You're a hipocrite, you have to kill plants to eat them " <

plants, having no central nervous system and no cognitive abilities,

have no

concept of fear, pain or death. unlike animals, who are quite aware of

their

own mortality.

> " Humans are better than animals " <

I beg to differ. look at our track record: we are capable of some pretty

 

ugly feats.

> " How do you find enough to eat " <

I plan my menus well, something all Americans should be doing, as our

nutritional habits are less than examplary.

> " You're really missing out on this tasty steak " <

yes. that, and high cholesterol, high fat content, maggots, waste from

the

meat production facility, bacteria and other orgasisms, forced

antibiotics

and

> I have one family member who goes into a whole lecture about how evil

 

PETA is and about all the evil things they do, every time we go out to

eat

(I'm not even a member of PETA). I've heard this lecture about 15 times.

 

PETA gets a bad rap, but really, it is a very compassionate

organization.

It just depends on one person's particular preference for activism.

Vegetarianism is not the norm, so in some ways, it is a statement as

well as

a choice one makes for their life. Some people are more comfortabel not

 

eating meat and leaving it at that, others want their message to be

heard.

Either way, all forms are necessary. I think that the mere act of

standing

up for your beliefs and admitting to veggieism is activism on a small,

very

important scale.

 

I have found that most people want some " scientific " proof that you have

 

made the best decision because scientists/doctors/etc. say this is the

best

way to live. As if a cohesive argument is necessary to made your

decision to

be a veggie more valid. I like to simply say that it is a choice that I

am

happy to live with, but some people are not comfortable leaving it at

that

and want to ask questions. I am more than happy to oblige and will

answer

any questions that have been asked of me. Very rarely do I come across

people who are hostile or rude about this... most people are curious and

 

polite. Tho..I have met one or two people that seemed to take the issue

 

personally, so with them, I agreed to disagree and we both went on our

ways

 

ok... I have been wordy enough

steph

-- The punishment for animal torturers/abusers should be exactly what

they did to the animal.