Where's The Beef?

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Keep eating meat and your chances of seeing this live in person will increase greatly! (ALL SALES ARE FINAL - VERY FINAL!)

Onto my post....

Bogdan, Bogdan, Bogdan! You made 2 posts in the same day! That's why I saw pigs flying on the way home from work! LOL

Anyway, it's good to hear from you again, and of course I have to respond to what you said. First of all, yes I was ABSOLUTELY serious when I said we DO NOT need meat to survive, and I was right. What we need is the protein in meat. Meat is a great source of protein and it's a very easy source to come by for most people. I mean all you have to do is drive up to a window to get it. You don't even have to get out of your car, or for that fact you can have it delivered right to your house. That way someone doesn't have to exert any energy to actually get up off their fat ass and move. The only reason you or anyone else may think we need it to survive is because you were brought up to believe that. You were told that by your parents, told that by Ronald McDonald and all the other cool, fun carton characters that had you hooked on flesh before you were even old enough to walk. As I said before, Tens of MILLIONS of people don't eat meat and never have. I'm not going to act like it's easy because it's not. You're surrounded by it every where you go and it takes no effort to get it. Good healthy food requires you to actually PREPARE IT and COOK IT. Now I know for many of you that's CRAZY talk, but believe me there are people that do it everyday and enjoy every morsel.

In regards to your comments about cows not being the same as dogs or cats I have a question for you. Are you still smoking crack? I thought I told you to give that up?! LOL How can you even say that? Even though you haven't taken some time to get to know a cow (even though they're everywhere - every time I'm in Romania) I have. Cows are truly the most gentle, peaceful animals there are. People see them as disposable, so they don't see them for what they really are. Any living creature that has a nervous system feels pain. Humans, Dogs, Cats, Chickens and so on have nervous systems. They feel pain. Any idiot can see that (and I'm not calling you an idiot Bogdan - at least not this time.)

The irony is they're vegetarians themselves.

And I'll keep going back to my original point. We don't have to torture, abuse, and massacre them. We don't have to have psychotic people using their jobs at slaughterhouse to mask their true violent tendencies. We don't have to force them to live in miserable conditions. It's not right. It's barbaric and it's what I would expect from an uneducated, ignorant, selfish, greedy, and uncaring society. The funny thing is that I feel those adjectives describe us at this point in time - PERFECTLY!

Also, one more point. I HATE THE MEDIA! People have to stop depending on the media to tell them anything. You have to use the blessing that is technology to really learn the truth. Go on the Internet. Go underground. You wont find the truth on the news, or at the mall, or at MacDonald's. You have to look long and hard for it and dig deep and you have to learn to accept the fact that the way you live your life is part of the problem. No one is perfect and you cant completely change your life overnight. However, you can make small changes daily that will add up over time. Stop eating beef. Stop buying things prepackaged. Eat organic. Start recycling. Stop using products tested on animals. Start buying Fair Trade. There are a million easy things everyone can do to get started and that's all you need to do - JUST GET STARTED. The rest is easy.

Of course if you dont care about animals, you should car about yourself. Here's some data on the difference between a vegetarian lifestyle and a meat eating one.

ENJOY!

Leading health experts agree that going vegetarian is the single-best thing we can do for ourselves and our families. Healthy vegetarian diets support a lifetime of good health and provide protection against numerous diseases, including our country’s three biggest killers: heart disease, cancer, and strokes. The American Dietetic Association states that vegetarians have “lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease; … lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer” and that vegetarians are less likely than meat-eaters to be obese.1 Well-planned vegetarian diets provide us with all the nutrients that we need, minus all the saturated fat, cholesterol, and contaminants found in animal flesh, eggs, and dairy products.

Research has shown that vegetarians are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of meat-eaters.3,4 Plus, meat-eaters are nine times more likely to be obese than vegans are.5

The consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy products has also been strongly linked to osteoporosis, Alzheimer's, asthma, and male impotence. Scientists have also found that vegetarians have stronger immune systems than their meat-eating friends; this means that they are less susceptible to everyday illnesses like the flu.7 Vegetarians and vegans live, on average, six to 10 years longer than meat-eaters.

A plant-based diet is the best diet for kids, too: Studies have shown that vegetarian kids grow taller and have higher IQs than their classmates, and they are at a reduced risk for heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and other diseases in the long run.10,11 Studies have shown that even older people who switch to a vegetarian or vegan diet can prevent and even reverse many chronic ailments.

Tomorrow starts my new topic. Something a little lighter and less controversial....RELIGION!

LUAP :)