[TheForge] "Sea Kittens"??? OT

[Andrew Vida]

What about dirt's rights?  We need dirt's rights NOW.  Just look how we 
abuse dirt!  It's a sin.  SIN I say!

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Uh huh. So, what or who set you up to decide animals 
> have more right to live than plants? Hmmmm? I figure if 
> we weren't supposed to eat them they wouldn't taste 
> good and we'd be set up to process dirt and sunlight.
> 
> Hey wait! Minerals must have just as much right to not 
> live as we have to live. What right do we have to take 
> poor innocent unassuming minerals and bring them to 
> life without their consent? And what about inhibiting 
> sunlight's right to free passage?
> 
> We should just disappear, evil blights on EVERYTHING 
> that we are.
> 
> I have to laugh at the folk who claim our digestive 
> system is more closely related to a goat than a 
> carnivore. The look on their faces when I ask them 
> where our other three stomachs are is priceless. Then 
> they look at me with even more consufsion when I tell 
> them they should crack a book and check out an omnivore 
> like a bear or pig. I'd feel sorry for them if their 
> vote didn't count as much as mine.

	This has been the lame argument of the vegans for decades.  No offense 
to any vegans out there, but the argument doesn't even rate as 
laughable.  A study of carnivore gut anatomy usually shows a long 
intestine (one notable exception being the domestic cat).  We, too, have 
long ones.  This gets ignored.

	I was a fairly strict vegetarian for about two years when I was at UC 
Davis.  No meat.  I was very strong (rode 125 miles/day, 7 days/week in 
the 8 month season) and felt pretty good the whole time.  On return to 
NY I continued but soon began feeling poorly.  Kathy (gf @ time) 
suggested we dump the veggie diet - we did, and I got to feeling much 
better in short order.  Not calling veggies bad, but methinks it is not 
for everyone.  As I am fond of saying to the point of people throwing 
things at me, one size does NOT fit all.