Nader's view on vegetarianism

[Guest guest]

That answers that question.

Now I don't need to feel bad about not voting for him.

I've gone back and forth on Dr. John Hagelin,

and at present he gets my vote.

 

 

At 07:16 PM 10/25/00 -0400, Mark Sutton wrote:

>Nader isn't a vegetarian:

>

> From 09/05/00 Washington Post, C8:

>

> " Waiting in a TV station greenroom for an appearance, Nader is approached

>by an admirer who assumes he eats no animal products. " You're vegan,

>aren't you? " she asks. Nader points to the turkey and roast beef

>sandwiches he's eating. " Not when there's stuff like this, " he says. "

>

>His response to the vegan question was not quite sympathetic to vegetarian

>concerns and I thought it was rather callous.

>

>FYI, Mark (I already posted this on Vegsource and Veg-DC lists)

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

This post seems uncharacteristic of Nader.

I suspect that many are working to smear Nader

as are all political candidates " smeared " by their

opposition. I doubt that the episode ostensibly quoted

in the Washington Post ever happened.

 

The entire article is slanted anti-Nader

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11868-2000Sep4.html

I'm sure the Democrats and liberal establishment is concerned

enough to do something like this...

 

Consider the following from MOTHER JONES

 

http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JA00/nader.html

 

" Nader's audiences are often overwhelmingly white and

disproportionately filled with practitioners of decidedly

alternative lifestyles. At campaign events, tables are

invariably stuffed with literature on animal liberation

and vegan nutrition, issues that are unlikely to play in

Peoria. On the March swing, an oppressive air of virtue

and clean living hung over many campaign events. At the

Whole Earth Center in Princeton, for instance, the crowd

gathered among shelves laden with whole-wheat spinach pies,

organic soy-nut crunchies, and unsulphured, unsweetened

pineapple rings. At many events, not a drop of booze, not

even a beer, was available. The puritanism comes from Nader

as well as the Greens. A vegetarian, he has been acutely

health conscious, especially since his brother Shafeek died

of cancer in 1986. At the office, Nader employees who grab

lunch at McDonald's have been known to eat their food on

the sly, careful not to let the boss catch them with a

Big Mac. Critics on the right have long castigated Nader

for what they see as his moral absolutism... "

 

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I've received calls from Nader's people here in Massachusetts

all week. I'll give them a call tonight about this and post

the phone numbers so anyone here can follow up. (They've

wanted me to distribute Nader materials locally.) ~Ernie

 

~~~

 

" The meal awaiting him in the back seat is a vegan

assortment of soups, sandwiches and cookies donated by a

local health-food store. "

from: Nader offers alternative message

VENTURA RALLY: Green Party

presidential candidate not ready to

give anything to front-runners.

By By T.J. Sullivan

Ventura County Star writer

Wednesday August 23, 2000

 

http://www.insidevc.com/getlocal/ventura/334824.shtml

 

~~~

 

Remember the book: The Chemical Feast

The Chemical Feast : The Ralph

Nader Study Group Report on

Food Protection and the Food and

Drug Administration

 

~~~~~

 

All-vegans-unite Nader Mentions

Mcdonald's Electronic Child Abuse

Ahimsa Netwrk

All-vegans-unite Nader Mentions Mcdonald's

Electronic Child Abuse

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:14:07 -0700

Ralph Nader at the Green Party convention referred to

McDonald's and other child directed marketers as " electronic

child abusers " .

 

He said that child obesity, can be linked to this,

and that the corporations turn children into nag

machines. He also mentioned the minimum wage

salary as a form of corporate theft.

 

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