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From: steve@loral.UUCP (Stephen Newbegin)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: Please go away.
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 16:31:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 16:31:49 1986
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Summary: add some spice


     Finally an interesting discussion on the nature of veggies vs
meat-eaters. I found the trading recipes useful, but boring.
I have often heard the argument about man's digestive track and teeth
not being like the carnivores.  I've also read that its not like the
pure vegetarians like cows who can eat grass all day and make eyes, bones,
fat, etc. Man is usually compared to primates who supposedly hang from
trees and eat fruits and berries all day. Problem is they balance their
diet out with an occasionally bird egg or very small game. People call
this an omnivore, but man gets carried away with this and eats everything
including big game, plants both raw and cooked, and man made creations that
no animal of any type would want to eat. All the scientific research seems
to point the theory that the big animal diet(red meat) is bad, vegetables and
fruits are better uncooked and unprocessed, and eggs in small numbers, small
game like poultry and fish, and grains are OK. The best way to get a perspectiveon diet and hunger is to grow or raise ALL your own food yourself and
not buy it at your supermarket or health food store. I do it and it changed
my diet more than any religion or diet book. It takes ALOT of land to grow
beef whether you let it eat range grass or grain you grow. Fruits and vegetablesare easy to grow to get nutrition but to get enough calories takes more land.
Chickens are great because they eat bugs, grass, garbage, worms and other
things I don't like and give me lots of very good eggs, excellent manure,
and occassionally meat. You see, chickens produce as many roosters as hens
and you would go broke or hungry feeding them for years like hens. Thus you
have to do something with them. Yep, you guessed it. Lets keep this discussion
going. I like it.


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	     Steve Newbegin   Loral Instrumentation   San Diego

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     At my farm I care not whether your a Communist Swine, a
Facist Pig, or a Middle-of-the-Road Hog; your arguments must
carry their own weight on my scales.