Vegetarianism
For a while, especially being on a college campus, I have had many people explain the wonders of vegetarianism to me. I, of course, listen. It is not always an easy concept to understand, for, after all, animals seem to be pretty tasty and zero animals have come up to me and asked me not to eat them, so they must be ok with it, right? I mean, animals are a lesser life form. There’s no way around it. We don’t let them vote in elections and they can’t rent videos down at Blockbuster.
So why do people have such a bad taste for eating them?
It seems like there is a nutritional bad rap for a lot of animal products.
This report cleared up a lot of the things that I had heard about vegetarianism being the healthiest way to eat.
I respect all of my vegetarian comrades, and a choice is a choice, for whatever reason, but it certainly helped me to read this report.
November 18th, 2002 at 10:08 pm
Very interesting indeed. I had trouble reading the whole article. How do you come up with this stuff?
November 20th, 2002 at 11:44 am
For every article arguing in one side of an issue, there’s another article with just as much “factual evidence” that makes a good case for the other side. Example: a front-page story on vegetarianism in Time several months ago. It refuted many of the oft-cited supposed “dangers of vegetarianism” such as lack of protein, etc. and provided much support for vegetarianism being the healthiest nutritional lifestyle. All this just goes to show that a person has to make up their own mind, for their own reasons - outside sources can provide helpful information, but for godsake, don’t believe everything you hear. (Not ‘you’ as in you, Garrett - a general ‘you’.)
This is Amber, by the way.
I think you already know that I am a vegetarian. I have been one since I was 16 (I’m 23 now). I don’t particularly care whether someone else does or does not eat meat. I don’t like to be criticized for not eating meat, so I’m not going to criticize someone else for eating it. But I’ll tell you one thing: I lost 20 pounds after I stopped eating meat.
…Which reminds me of a recent Onion headline: “Surgeon General: ‘Americans Have Enormous Fat Asses’”. Love it, that Onion.
(P.S. Do you think I should add a comment section like this to my weblog?)
November 21st, 2002 at 11:39 pm
No, I definitely don’t believe everything I hear, but I have read a lot of support for vegetarianism and I was interested to see a report, published in a medical journal, debunking some of the myths that I had never seen proof for at all. Now, there’s always factual evidence for either side. I won’t deny that in most cases, I am probably wrong. Nor am I one to put down someone else’s lifestyle.