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you didn't answer
as is typical
yeah, freeing the Indians from Brit rule, non-violently even, was pretty foolish. is everyone who has been assassinated automatically a fool i...
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 7:55pm PST
it's like
fighting an inanimate object.
here's hoping that "history bluff" gets the help he's crying out for....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:39am PST
this raises some provocative questions that cannot be dismissed with ridicule
[In their accounts of the affair, the powers that be (and not just in Britain) greatly exaggerate the role of non violent resistance because they want the rest ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 4:33pm PST
never said anything about
it was just an aside that to a point that Gandi, a vegetarian opposed to animal testing, who must be a misanthropic psychopath by some people's twisted logic, a...
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 4:49pm PST
Ghandi and NonViolence
From reading Nehru's history of India I didnt really get the same picture of Ghandi as one hears from those debating violence vs nonviolence. I have to relook u...
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 5:39pm PST
"much more energy goes into producing meat than vegitable products"
This is simply untrue. Much more energy goes into producing meat than vegetable products only if the meat is raised in the modern American way. Traditional meth...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 9:21am PST
meat eating is fine on
funny, that in a comment about getting facts straight the author uses hypotheticals to make his/her point -- meat is largely not produced in a "traditional...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 11:57am PST
another straw man
>meat is largely not produced in a "traditional" way in this country
I never said it was. Why do you feel that you have to make stuff to debate me....
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 1:33pm PST
but you eat meat
because some third world person farms goats on a hill
it's like the person who argues for eating meat here in America by noting that the indigenous peoples o...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 1:47pm PST
I eat meat because Nature made me an omnivore.
Only fools oppose Nature.
Your crack about "some Third World person" smacks of racism. Justify that....
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 2:11pm PST
tradional isnt better
If you look at "traditional" culturest that have been vegitarian vs those that eat meat you notice that those areas that are traditionally vegitarian ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 2:14pm PST
"Nature made me an omnivore"
What does that mean? "Nature" made it so people can eat cooked meat (and almost not be able to digest noncooked meat). Humans also evolved to be viole...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 2:17pm PST
"The problems with raising animals in highly populated areas." etc.
(1.) The problems with raising animals in highly populated areas stem from over population, not the raising of animals.
(2.) Meat needn’t be raised in highl...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 2:27pm PST
guilty pleasure
Some people living away from cities may have to drive a car since there isnt public transportation available to get to needed services. In some parts of the wor...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 4:28pm PST
meat
and i never feel guilty eating it, or feel the need to justify it. it's as natural as anything else humans do....
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 10:35pm PST
morally obligated if other options are plentiful
no, bro. raising millions of animals in factories for mass slaughter isn't how nature made us. the first humans were hunter gatherers where it is estimated that...
Posted: Sun, Mar 28, 2010 11:38am PDT
A Turkey Named Adam
This Thanksgiving nearly 45 million turkeys will be slaughtered for holiday dinner. Learn the story of one turkey who escaped this misery....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 8:08pm PST
A suspected case of mad cow disease has been detected in the United States
Second mad cow case suspected in USA...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 4:37pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign Update 11/18/04
* Update from the Field
* Come Stand with the Buffalo - Volunteers Needed
* 2004 East Coast Road Show Completed
* TONIGHT! Yellowstone Buffalo Documentary Airs Again - Watch with Caution!
* Action Alerts - Comment on Buffalo Quarantine
* Last Words...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 12:59pm PST