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- From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: religion in general
- Message-ID: <1johe2INNk9@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:14:26 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.150032.5145@wkuvx1.bitnet>
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- westsh@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
-
- >re:religion in general
- >mostly, i agree with your letter. my problem with it is your comment about
- >using religion as a reason of abstaining from the consumption of animal
- >flesh. you say instead of worrying about religion, we could be solving
- >world hunger. the key to solving world hunger is surprisingly simple.
- >if all americans became vegetarians, we would be able to feed the world
- >three times over!!!!! albeit, religion is not a good reason for this, but
- >it works just the same. i agree religion of any kind is bull, but some of
- >it has good ideas: like not killing people or animals. i am also glad that
- >someone pointed out that christianity is not the only culprit. all
- >religions are is a way to explain things without thinking.
- >susan hamilton west
- >the info on world hunger can be found in VEGETARIAN TIMES(i'm not sure what
- >issue).
-
- It is well known that vegetarians are often fanatical and like to bend
- the truth a little. Actually, just based on energy concerns, I suppose
- we could feed the world if we stopped cycling food to the animals.
- However, the people and animals don't really eat the same kinds of food.
- The corn grown for pigs is not meant for human consumption. I suppose
- it could be eaten, but it is rather course. Also, humans have a hard
- time digesting various grasses. You can't just let a human graze in
- the open range. In fact, most of the land used for cattle probably
- couldn't be used for anything else (well, sheep, I guess). If somehow
- you could get humans to eat grass, then I suppose youru statements
- might be true.
-
- Anyway, perhaps you should post these sorts of messages to
- alt.religion.vegetanarianism or whatever.
-
- keith
-