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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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Subject: Re: Question (and an Answer)
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Date: Sun, 1-Jan-84 17:11:22 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  1 17:11:22 1984
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Just because one religion (no matter how correct it may be) requires the
eating of meat does not mean that someone else cannot have religious reasons
for not eating it!  Some reasons:
	1) Religious - feel not right to kill other animals
	2) Health - less concentration of chemicals lower in the food chain
		  - more fiber, less fat > almost provably healthier
	3) Social/Moral - Meat is very expensive protein from a world energy
			flow viewpoint.  One kilo of beef protein requires ?20
			kilos of plant protein. Pigs & Chickens are more
			efficient, but still >5:1
I am not currently a vegetarian, but I have friends who are and have a
lot of sympathy for the reasons.  If you are interested, there is an
excellent book called: "Diet for a Small Planet" by Francis Moore Lappe'
which gives a good explanation of the social/moral reasons mentioned above,
and also a variety of excellent recipes with "balanced" complete protein.
-- 
 -- Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
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