Guest guest Posted August 22, 2004 Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 All, So Larry King has a rerun of an interview with Julia Child on (right now) <sigh>. She says " if you are a vegetarian, you really have to know what you are doing " . Even registered nutritionists advocate dairy and meat. I am going to see relatives in a week in Peoria, Michigan City, Indianapolis, Wichita, and Missouri. Can you say " meat-eating bible belt " ? And I am a progressive, green party, god-loving, pro-life, pro-choice, vegan (unless I can find organic cheese from a local dairy). And have received hate mail from some of them. So I need help. Can someone help arm me with: Pro-environment pro-Kerry pro-life anti-meat eating talking points? I am spending one or two days in each location. Would appreciate BULLET POINTS only. I wish to be an effective advocate of all things we believe in and know that I can make a difference. Signed... Julie Dull ***************************** " If not me, who? If not now, when? We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. -- W.H. Auden ***************************** " I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. " - Sir Winston Churchill ********************************************************************** Free Farm Animals from Cruelty, Cannibalism, Confinement and Drugs: <http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery.htm> http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery.htm The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. " -----George Bernard Shaw ******************************************************************* Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein ******************************************************************* Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 22, 2004 Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 Julie Dull wrote: >So Larry King has a rerun of an interview with Julia Child on (right now) ><sigh>. And Julia Child's nutritional/scientific credentials were...? >She says " if you are a vegetarian, you really have to know what you are >doing " . No more so than carnivores. >Even registered nutritionists advocate dairy and meat. *Some* of them do, no doubt, but you can find *some* members of any group who are irrational advocates. What do they call the guy who graduated at the bottom of his class in medical school? ... Doctor! >Can someone help arm me with: > >Pro-environment pro-Kerry pro-life anti-meat eating talking points? ... >Would appreciate BULLET POINTS only. Best (reasoned, concise, factual, documented) list of bullet points for vegetarianism I have ever seen ( " 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian " ) can be found at http://www.vivavegie.org/ You can download a copy for free at http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/pdf/101.03.pdf (but it would help them out if you paid for your copy, which you can do at their Web site). .... Doug Days like these come along once in a lifetime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 Julie, Actually, I think it would be much more difficult to justify Julia Child's cooking as healthy. Quoting the SF Chronicle obit: " Above all, Child was an advocate for the good life and the joys of the table. Nouvelle cuisine, low-fat and low-cholesterol cooking and the politically correct insistence on organically grown food and free- range fowl all met with her unfettered mirth. " 'What's so great, " she once mused at a San Francisco press conference, 'about some birds trotting around in their own excrement?' " Child had a lot of great qualities, but her attitude toward food never adjusted to health research and she never seemed to have absorbed the increasing cruelty used in raising animals destined for the dinner table. She chose to remain behind the times. We are free to pick our heroes. Ann > Julie Dull wrote: > So Larry King has a rerun of an interview with Julia Child on (right now) <sigh>. > She says " if you are a vegetarian, you really have to know what you are doing " . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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