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   XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, misc.rural   
      
   On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:36:27 -0800 (PST), Rupert    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Feb 27, 6:23 pm, dh@. wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:47:10 +0000, Derek  wrote:   
   >> >On 25/02/2012 00:39, ToolPackinMama wrote:   
   >> >> My favorite food used to be chicken.  recently, while I was preparing   
   >> >> chicken for my family, I had an epiphany.   
   >>   
   >> >> I was handling the chicken parts with great caution.  I had vinyl gloves   
   >> >> on, and I was working hard to keep the process sanitary.  I am aware of   
   >> >> how unclean chicken meat generally is.   
   >>   
   >> >> It suddenly struck me:  "If I believe this has to be handled like toxic   
   >> >> waste, why am I feeding it to my family!?"   
   >>   
   >> >> It hit me like a bolt of lightning:  I believe that meat is unwholesome,   
   >> >> so why am I still eating it, and serving it to others!?   
   >>   
   >> >> I have always hated the cruelty that "food animals" were subjected to.   
   >> >> I had to not think about it, to be able to eat meat at all.  Well, I am   
   >> >> thinking about it now, and it makes the thought of meat even more   
   repugnant.   
   >>   
   >> >> OK!  The solution seems simple:  vegetarianism.  However, the solution   
   >> >> has created a new problem for me... I don't know how to cook vegetarian   
   >> >> meals.   
   >>   
   >> >> I am asking you good people to post your favorite recipes.  Not the   
   >> >> fancy ones, but the every-day comfort foods ones that you rely on the   
   most.   
   >>   
   >> >> Thanks a million!   
   >>   
   >> >> Laura   
   >>   
   >> >Hiya, Laura. You've made a very good decision to go vegetarian, so   
   >> >don't let the naysayers here against it fool you into thinking otherwise.   
   >>   
   >>   From the life and death of a thousand pound grass raised   
   >> steer and whatever he happens to kill during his life, people   
   >> get over 500 pounds of human consumable meat...that's well   
   >> over 500 servings of meat. From a grass raised dairy cow people   
   >> get thousands of dairy servings. Due to the influence of farm   
   >> machinery, and *icides, and in the case of rice the flooding and   
   >> draining of fields, one serving of soy or rice based product is   
   >> likely to involve more animal deaths than hundreds of servings   
   >> derived from grass raised animals.   
   >   
   >You've just made this assertion again, yet in another ongoing thread   
   >it looks as though you can't actually defend it.   
      
       It's still up in the air what the most likely number is so I haven't   
   changed   
   it yet.   
      
   >> Grass raised animal products   
   >> contribute to fewer wildlife deaths, better wildlife habitat, and   
   >> better lives for livestock than soy or rice products.   
      
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