Re: MARMITE (Little) JACK (Horner) POT

[Norman Buchwald <jbuchwald@huey.csun.edu>]

103042.307@CompuServe.COM (KateKnight) wrote:
>
>     Enough already with this "marmite" psychedelia! Humans 
>EVOLVED into meat-eaters. We are the dominant life form on the 
>planet. Until another more advanced species comes along to eat 
>US, I suggest all you veggie-heads go back to reading your frayed 
>copy of "Ecotopia" and leave the rest of us Homo sapiens alone!
>
>-- 
>"Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted."


Uh . . . I'm a meat eater myself, but the vegetarians and vegans have a 
point or two.  Dairy products are not easily digestable.  Nor is red 
meat.  (In comparison to other foods).   In the U.S.A. we end up using so 
much energy just to produce meat, making it expensive and costly and 
wasteful for our environment.  Of course, the problem is mainly that a 
lot of us eat too much red meat (which explains our often high 
cholesterol). The whole discussion about marmite began with a discussion 
about what Kate is supposed to have said about her diet in a past 
interview.

I mean, yes, I did have a vegan roommate once, who would deliberately 
make faces or sounds whenever I wanted to eat a hamburger, and that's not 
nice.  But that's hardly what's going on here.  (Those who are vegans do 
have to focus very highly on their nutritional balance, though, but they 
can stay healthy and live happy lives with such a diet if they so wish). 
 I do not buy the argument that humans are really, by their nature, 
vegetarians, but I think all of us would benefit health-wise and 
enviro-wise if we were all part-time vegetarians at least.

                                                        Stormin' Norman

                                         We all have a dream. . . maybe?