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Hitler was not a vegetarian, please do your research- try reading something.

PETA uses the methods they do to get the response they want- which is free publicity, period. They do it because it works. It makes no difference to them if they are 'liked' or not, quite obviously, the opposite is more effective.

The meat industry has, does and is causing irreversible harm to the environment. Again, try reading something. Time Magazine online predicted the end of meat eating in the next century because the planet will simply no longer be able to support it, period.

When Julius Caesar made his triumphal entrance into Rome in 45 B.C., he celebrated by giving a feast at which thousands of guests gorged on poultry, seafood and game. Similar celebrations featuring exorbitant consumption of animal flesh have marked human victories--in war, sport, politics and commerce--since our species learned to control fire. Throughout the developing world today, one of the first things people do as they climb out of poverty is to shift from their peasant diet of mainly grains and beans to one that is rich in pork or beef. Since 1950, per capita consumption of meat around the globe has more than doubled.

Meat, it seems, is not just food but reward as well. But in the coming century, that will change. Much as we have awakened to the full economic and social costs of cigarettes, we will find we can no longer subsidize or ignore the costs of mass-producing cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep and fish to feed our growing population. These costs include hugely inefficient use of freshwater and land, heavy pollution from livestock feces, rising rates of heart disease and other degenerative illnesses, and spreading destruction of the forests on which much of our planet's life depends.

First, consider the impact on supplies of freshwater. To produce 1 lb. of feedlot beef requires 7 lbs. of feed grain, which takes 7,000 lbs. of water to grow. Pass up one hamburger, and you'll save as much water as you save by taking 40 showers with a low-flow nozzle. Yet in the U.S., 70% of all the wheat, corn and other grain produced goes to feeding herds of livestock. Around the world, as more water is diverted to raising pigs and chickens instead of producing crops for direct consumption, millions of wells are going dry. India, China, North Africa and the U.S. are all running freshwater deficits, pumping more from their aquifers than rain can replenish. As populations in water-scarce regions continue to expand, governments will inevitably act to cut these deficits by shifting water to grow food, not feed. The new policies will raise the price of meat to levels unaffordable for any but the rich.

That prospect will doubtless provoke protests that direct consumption of grain can't provide the same protein that meat provides. Indeed, it can't. But nutritionists will attest that most people in the richest countries don't need nearly as much protein as we're currently getting from meat, and there are plenty of vegetable sources--including the grains now squandered on feed--that can provide the protein we need....

As the responses clearly show, it is bigots show time here, forcefully attacking the obvious, and twisting whatever the words you find opposing. Blame shifiting at best!

Goodbye.

This "past and copied" article is full of bias as much as the posters, Canadians in the majority with some sort of social issues to tolerate other's opinion.

Worthless the comment. Bones for the **stards. Chew my dear, chew.

As the responses clearly show, it is bigots show time here, forcefully attacking the obvious, and twisting whatever the words you find opposing. Blame shifiting at best!

As the responses clearly show, it is bigots show time here, forcefully attacking the obvious, and twisting whatever the words you find opposing. Blame shifiting at best!

Did they also tell you that B12 can excite you that way to cause heart problems, I am sure they will not... It takes at least 10 years for some to have a really funded base of study... {/quote]
You failed to mention here that B12 is essential in good heart health & is often lacking in most diets; particularly vegetarian & vegan diets.


And those of us who CANNOT eat most of the foods you listed, CANNOT survive in good health as vegetarians. It is not a matter of choice to forego protein & maintain good health. As living proof of an educated, experienced attempt at vegetarian lifestyle , I can positively tell the world that it CANNOT work for everyone. Individual physiology precludes mass generalization.




I'm 52! And yes, my pictures are up to date too.

many of us `excuse' ourselves by simply not getting our own hands bloody and pretend that those who did the dirty work for us (if you did to your dog what happens to virtally all pigs raised for food in the us, you would be thrown in jail in most municipalities) are the bad guys.

Dwayne88: it's amazing how human beings don't want to play by the "I'm the top of the food chain" rules when they are in Grizzly bear country; because I assure you, the Grizzly bear is at the top of the food chain.

It's just selfishness and self-entitlement.