Re: Vegetarianism - encouragement

Good for you :-)

"animaux" <animaux@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Daniel, I don't feel superior because of my vegan or vegetarian ideals. 
I 
> feel
> very much a part of the entirety.  It's a decision, a choice.  I can't
do 
> meat
> any more.  And I love a good prime rib, or a delicious jumbo lump crab 
> cake.  I
> love my scrambled eggs and whole milk on shredded wheat with sugar.  I
am 
> going
> to miss pudding made of milk and salmon and all the other meat products
I 
> love.
>
> I don't feel superior to anyone.  Life is not a contest at all.  It's a 
> series
> of decisions and choices.  I decided to be vegan.  I never said it was 
> easy, or
> that it makes anyone a better person.  I mean, of course there are the 
> elitists
> in each group of whatever the representation, but the older I get, the 
> more
> precious every minute becomes.  In maturity I have started to experience
> sacrifice, but without the chip on  my shoulder.  I don't tell people
I'm 
> vegan
> or vegetarian, I just am.
>
> I am no  more morally superior than anyone.  I'm my own moral compass. 
I
> compare my behavior with my behavior of my own past and that's how I 
> measure MY
> growth.  I don't measure it based on you or your life's ideals.
>
> When  my sister in law became a yoga teacher, and when my mother in law 
> found
> out she was also vegetarian, my mother in law freaked out and told my
SIL 
> all
> her problems were because she didn't eat meat.  Huh?  How does that
work? 
> Then
> again, many of us are recovering Catholics.
>
> Being vegan or lacto ovo vegetarian is a decision, based on a choice. 
> Nobody
> said you  had to do it.  If you feel inferior, address that.
>
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:19:57 +0800, "Daniel" 
> <sitting.quietly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> opined:
>
>>How morally superior you must be feeling.....being a vegetarian.  I sure

>>am
>>glad that I read this post I was always wondering what the cause of
crime 
>>in
>>the US was about, and that crazy gun thing they have.  Now I know its
>>because they eat meat.  Of course a vegetarian is so much more superior 
>>than
>>your average meat eater.  I mean look at Hitler, he was a vegetarian,
and
>>look at where his head was at.
>>There is some nonesense out there that plants can think, that they feel 
>>and
>>can hear your thoughts.  If this is so then Vegans and Vegetarians must
be
>>evil incarnate to vegetation.  Like demons amidst the helpless souls in
>>hell, rending them, eating them live, murderering the beloved in the
most
>>horrible and senseless manner.....could that be how the plants envision 
>>you.
>>But oops I almost forgot you are morally superior.
>>"Nick Phillips" <nick.removespam.philips@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> "suzi" <suzi777@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> > Somebody wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >Vegetarianism is the human diet of the future. Eating heavy red
meats
>>> > >creates self-destructive habits by accentuating the animal
instincts.
>>> > >Eating a lighter diet of vegetables, which can also include eggs,
>>> > >cheese and fish, increases a person's self awareness. Look at 
>>> > >America,
>>> > >the biggest meat-eating country in the world. They have a huge
crime
>>> > >problem and an obsession with guns.
>>> > <snip>
>>> >
>>> > Vegetarianism is good and especially im****tant for people who are on
>>> > 'the path', but organic vegitarianism is best. As we'll all
eventually
>>> > know - everything is light. Traces of pesticides that are in
>>> > non-organic veggies take light from  the veggies and have a negative
>>> > effect on the people who eat them.   The more processed a food is
the
>>> > less light it has.  It's good for people to grow their own, and to
>>> > bake their own food - with organic ingredients whenever it's
possible
>>> > and with  LOVE!
>>> >
>>>
>>> Eating fish does NOT class you as a vegetarian!  I tire of people that

>>> say
>>> 'I'm a vegetarian and I only eat fish and chicken' etc.  If you eat
ANY
>>> ANIMAL you are an omnivore at best.  Stop kidding yourself!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nick
>>> x
>>>
>>> There are two secrets to success...
>>> 1. Never reveal everything you know.
>>>
>>>
>>
>