Why are you a vegeterrian

[Verto]

This thread disenfranchises those who make use of their omnivorously-adapted physical abilities.

[Paddy]

I insist that the animals I eat have been vegetarians for at least 6 months prior to slaughter...

Anything to help the cause

[Harry Tuttle]

Will SOMEONE please think of the poor vegetables?!?! They have feelings too you know.

[Jon Miller]

actually

I konw people who tihnk that

Jon Miller

[Ted Striker]

jon miller hops don't count as vegetables

[Inverse Icarus]

you know, millions of animals are killed by harvesting equipment used to harvest vegetables, so unless you eat hand picked ones, you can't claim a moral high ground for that.

[Inverse Icarus]

how is it more efficient, btw?

more meat = more protien = more muscle mass, brain power, etc.

[Jon Miller]

because meat is grown by feeding animals stuff that we can eat

over 100 people could live off the vegetables that is fed so that 1 person can have meat

Jon Miller

[Provost Harrison]

Cool...but then I think of steak...so bugger those 99 other people

[Peter Triggs]

over 100 people could live off the vegetables that is fed so that 1 person can have meat

So if everyone in the US stopped eating meat, they could eat about 100x the amount of vegetables they now eat.

Yeah, sure. What a good idea.

[Jon Miller]

or maybe we could feed the starving people fo the world

just an idea

when oyu eat meat you are starving somalians

Jon Miller

[Inverse Icarus]

right. because we'd grow that surplus and just give it to them.

[Jon Miller]

World Hunger

The senseless waste of the world’s growing meat-centered diet is illustrated by the following hypothetical statement: “If everyone adopted a vegetarian diet and no food were wasted, current [food] production would theoretically feed 10 billion people, more than the projected population for the year 2050,” according to the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington, D.C.-based research group. Even today, 840 million people are malnourished and nearly 50,000 die of starvation every day.

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

Men’s Health

The second leading cause of cancer death among men -- prostate cancer -- is not just an inevitable outcome of getting old; it is the result of a lifetime diet of animal fats. The fats stimulate the production of male hormones, which in turn spur prostate cancer cells to grow. Radiation, cryosurgery (the freezing of malignant cells) and traditional surgery are the treatments. But don’t worry: there are condom catheters for the incontinence and penile implants for the impotence.

JOn Miller

[Jon Miller]

from http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N44/veggie9-24.44a.html

and I think you can do a protein heavy diet while vegeterrian

just eaet lots of tofu

Jon Miller