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- From: wadley@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fruit Loop)
- Subject: Re: Vegetarian Ethics?????????????????
- Message-ID: <9300310.4245@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <993300083@peg.pegasus.oz.au>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:27:01 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- wlmss@peg.pegasus.oz.au writes:
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- >[...]
- >AND this Whopper:
- >
- >) Nothing died to give me my dinner
- >
- >comment: Wrong! I have watched land being cleared for agriculture. Tonnes
- > of creatures large and small are crushed or driven away. Those
- >[...]
- >Some suggestions to mitigate the horrible hurt we are doing to other lifeforms:
- >
- >Burn uranium, not coal as too many radio-isotopes are entering the food chain
- >Stop all garbage burning urgently as this is releasing too many poisons
- >Australia MUST stop importing people, the pressure is already too great
- >Encourage energy-conserving indolence and apathy with cheap drugs (joke.joke.)
- >Waste less at every meal
- >Shoot the pope
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-
- Vegetarians have their heart in the right place, but are simply misinformed
- about nutrition, like everyone else, including most nutritionists.
-
- The answer to the above problems, which you can safely try at home,
- is to become a frugivore.
-
- Like other closely-related primates, humans are natural-born fruit-eaters.
- That's all you need for all your nutritional needs, and when you stop
- eating other stuff, most diseases, from cancer to the common cold, go away.
- What's more, you only need very small amounts, eg a couple of apples a day.
- Related advantages include major savings on your food and energy bill,
- and a virtual cessation of house-work, esp. cooking, cleaning, and shopping.
-
- And, to about as close an approximation as you'll ever get,
- nothing dies for your dinner. Fruit trees are in a symbiotic relationship
- with frugivores. They 'want' you to eat their fruit, and 'try' to make it
- as tasty and nutritions as possible, so that you will.
-
- For more info, write to The Fruitarian Network, po box 293, Trinity Beach,
- North Qld, 4879.
-
- Happy eating ...
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