Subject: RE: I'm sorry but...smokeater1833 - 2006-01-13 11:11 AM Brett - 2006-01-13 1:51 PM I just want to know when someone is going to start standing up for all the vegetables of the world... the voice of the eggplant must be heard!! Yeah the eggplants get the shaft all the time. I knew there was vegetable abuse and all but... that is just demented. There really needs to be some legislation. I had a GF once who was a vegetarian but she ate fish and shellfish. One day she was telling me how her dad makes this great pasta sauce with crabs. I asked her how he prepares the crabs and she said he pulls the legs off and then breaks the body in half and throws it all in the simmering tomato sauce. I was like... man, that sounds like a rough way to go! She says, "what do you mean?" I asked her how she'd like it if someone pulled off her arms and legs, ripped her body in half and then boiled her carcass! Then she started thinking.... "yeah, you're right. I need to stop eating fish and shellfish too." Mind you, she was already anemic so this new idea of hers was certainly not going to improve her health. You see, she was a vegetarian because she didn't want to hurt animals instead of for health reasons. So, I then told her that even being a vegetarian causes animals pain and death. I told her about how farmers trap and poison wildlife all the time and that there was no way she was going to avoid having a part in that unless she were to escape to some self supporting commune where everything is grown 'in house' without pesticides or chemicals. She thought about it for a day or so and then decided to eat meat! She became a regular meat eater although in moderation and her health improved dramatically... as did her manner of thought. |