Digest Number 1124 Hi Sherrie

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Hi Sherrie,

I agree with you, for the most part people are respectful and try to offer us

things without meat. That guy was going to be rude to you anyway, just like the

sexual advances he made. Over the years I have shared my lunches with coworkers

and 4 of them have become vegetarians because they could see there are so many

tasty things to make that are easy. I've always been helpful in supplying them

with info and recipes once they make that decision. It's always easier to offer

a taste of something you brought intead of pushing your beliefs on them.

Smiles, Donna

 

sherrie <sherriesvintiques wrote:

 

I have only had one person treat me the way you describe. It was at a party. He

tried to force little sausages on me. I had to get ugly with him. He made sexual

advances to me several times after that. I found out later he was a crack-head.

 

But, I have to admit, that I do not think less of someone for being a meat

eater. I tell them that I respect their rights to eat what they feel their body

needs. I explain to them that the growth hormones and bacterias in meat products

simply aren't agreeable to me. If I know someone very well I might expound and

talk about the unpleasant taste of blood, and the disgusting smell of meat

putrefaction compared to veggies. Other than that one time, I've had no one

" dis " me about being a veggie, on the contrary, they show interest and respect

for my convictions. I believe it may be the laid back way that I approach the

topic. I'm very non- militant and matter of fact about the whole thing.

 

 

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Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:52:48 -0800 (PST)

Jiraph Wirpel

Advice / opinions, please!

 

 

First off, who is veggie miostly for life-is-precious

reasons, and slaughter-is-murder? That is how I feel!

 

Who else would rather not have to eat around people

who feel fine shoveling warmed dead flesh into their

digestive system?

 

I have a friend who I share meals with often. A long

time ago, he asked me not to refer to eating meat as

using your stomach as a burial ground for decaying

flesh! :^) I stopped. But he knows I will not eat

meat! And he knows I came from an environment of

observing laws of keeping kosher. He teases about

offering me pork products.

 

Yesterday, he brought it up. He challanged me that,

eating meat is just his posiion in the food web.

" Snakes eat rodents, are they vulgar, immoral

murderers? "

 

" We have so removed ourselves from the actual

killing, " I explained. " If you actually made your own

kill, with your own agility, teeth and claws, I might

feel differently. " And I contend, he would!. " We are

capable of making choices, " I offered.

 

He kept going, challanging me to prove that eating a

carrot is any less taking a life than eating a Perdue.

 

Suggestions, please, for when (and why) meat-eaters

think they have to defend, and prove somethng to a

vegetarian?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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