responses to the Chronicle on Vegetarian food

[Guest guest]

June 25, 2002

VEGANS EAT WELL, AND WIN

PRIZES

 

Editor -- I do not know what report

Martin Peter

McGurrin (Letters, June 22) refers

to, but many

studies show that vegetarians outlive

meat eaters

and, more importantly, avoid many

killer diseases.

 

To answer his question here are some

names.

Nobel Prize-winning vegetarians:

 

Isaac B. Singer, Sir C. V. Raman and

Chandrashekar Subrahmanyam.

 

Track star vegetarians: Carl Lewis,

Edwin Moses

and Dave Scott, who won the Ironman

Triathlon

Championship six times. Hank Aaron

ran the bases

rather well after his record home-run

hits also.

 

Eat green and be healthy!

 

VEGETARIANS HAVE

CONTRIBUTED GREATLY

 

Editor -- I am writing this letter in

response to

Martin Peter McGurrin's letter to the

editor on June

22. As a vegetarian, I found his

letter a bit offensive

and inflammatory. First of all, I

would like to have

scientific proof of his claim that

vegetarians live

shorter lives than meat-eating

people.

 

Secondly, in response to his question

of vegetarian

athletes and Nobel Laureates I have

the following

list: Albert Einstein, Charles

Darwin, Thomas

Edison, Sir Isaac Newton, Clara

Baron, St.

Frances of Assisi, Susan B. Anthony

and

Mohandas Gandhi. And yes -- Einstein

won a

Nobel Prize.

 

Also, in the Olympic ring, I am sure

that most have

heard of Edwin Moses, Kathy Johnson

and Carl

Lewis -- all of whom are vegetarians.

If you are not

a vegetarian, that is your personal

choice. But

please, do not attack vegetarians and

intimate that

vegetarians have not contributed

greatly to the

world.

 

 

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