NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/aus/general/2693

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From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Dwyer)
Subject: Re: Herbivorously Challenged? I think not!
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Stuart Andrews, Jack Strangio and Jonathan Gowland write:
|> >
|> >> >TOP SEVEN REASONS NOT TO BE A VEGETARIAN
|> >> >
|> >> >1. What about the poor plants?
|> >> >2. The cow has a really good life until the end.
|> >> >3. The cow wouldn't have existed at all if we didn't eat it.
|> >> >4. God put animals on the earth for us to use.
|> >> >5. We're more important than animals anyway.
|> >> >6. Where do you get your protein from?
|> >> >7. (just recently) vegetarians have to pop vitamin pills all the time.
|> >> 8. If God had meant us to eat vegies, why did He invent butchers?
|> >9. So vegetarians are able to wear leather shoes!

10. It's better to kill animals than it is to kill plants, because plants are
   not only easier to enjoy (go on, try taking a relaxing stroll through a
   field full of cows waving in the breeze...) but they also produce oxygen
   for us to breathe, whereas animals often produce methane... :)



Jon