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From: morris@Shasta.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: meat is a poison?
Message-ID: <73@Shasta.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 18:23:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 18:23:39 1986
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Reply-To: morris@Shasta.UUCP (Kathy Morris)
Organization: Stanford University
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I stopped eating meat about 2 years ago.  I still eat eggs occasionally,
and dairy products.  Twice in the past year I have eaten fish, and both
times I felt ill -- as if the food was just sitting there, not being
digested.  Very unpleasant.  I don't remember if this happened at all
before I stopped eating meat, but I doubt it.

So, now when people ask me why I don't eat meat, I have a good
``excuse'' (mostly, I don't try to evangelise on the subject of
vegetarianism.  I was living in Sydney when I became a vegetarian, and
meat-eating is far more prevalent there than here in California.  If
someone asks me why I don't eat meat, I say I don't like it.  It's only
if I know them fairly well that I try to explain myself.  Personally, I
think they should be able to just accept it and leave me to my
eccentricities....)

One thing that interests me is the question of eating foods that are
supposed to seem like meat.  My mother, who is semi-vegetarian now,
like to use the various forms of TVP (textured vegetable protein, or
whatever) that the seventh day adventists sell.  I prefer to stick to
grains, legumes, etc.  I don't feel the need to eat foods that are
supposed to seem just like meat.  What do others out there think?

	Kathy Morris
	(morris@diablo)