IJMC - Facts Supporting the Carnivorous Lifestyle

After reading this I'm beginning to wonder...were the potatoes used for 
the chips I'm eating raised in an open environment they could move in and 
given a kind and fitting death? Or were they grown in a claustrophobic, 
dark, and dry environment where they couldn't moved and then sliced into 
itty bitty bits and deep fried before they were completely dead? I guess 
we'll never know.						    -dave



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	"..I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to 
	the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile
	on your lips.."

						--Birgitte
						  THE FIRES OF HEAVEN

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Facts supporting the Carnivorous Lifestyle
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Compiled by R.B. Leggett and B.R. Roig


95% of Vegetarians are skinny wimps.

Bacon tastes good.  Pork chops taste good.

All vegetarians born before 1850 eventually died.

Vegetarians have a longer average lifetime than carnivores, sentencing
themselves to a longer period without a decent meal.

Vegetarianism is retro.

Sacred food of Native Americans: Corn.
Sacred food of "New, Improved" Americans: Corned beef.

A driving force behind the destruction of the tropical rainforests:
American meat habit
The main driving force behind destruction of the tropical rainforests:
Brazilians who cut the forest down

Amount of meat eaten by average person in Costa Rica,El Salvador,Guatemala,
Nicaragua,Honduras and Panama: Less than average American housecat
Solution:  ship excess housecats to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama

User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the United States:
Livestock production
Secondary user:
Vegetation

Production of excrement by U.S. livestock: 250,000 pounds/second
Production of excrement by U.S. livestock if everyone was vegetarian:
	250,000 pounds/second

Photographs often accompanying the egg board's slogan:
Young women in bathing suits, emphasizing the shape of their breasts
	And this is wrong because....?

What the Federal Trade Commission called the "Everybody needs milk" slogan:
"False, misleading and deceptive"
What the Federal Trade Commission called the "Vegetarian" list:
"False, misleading and deceptive"

Part of female chicken's body that produces eggs: Ovaries

Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times
a week compared to women who eat eggs less than once a week:
3 times higher

"correlation", n.  As defined by the Vegetarian List, just about anything
			supporting a Vegetarian lifestyle.

McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children:
Hamburgers grow in hamburger patches and love to be eaten

McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald,doesn't tell children:
Hamburgers are ground up cows who've had their throats slit by machetes or their
brains bashed in by sledgehammers

McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children:
French Fries grow in French Fry patches and love to be eaten

McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald,doesn't tell children:
French Fries are sliced up potatoes who've had their throats slit by
machetes or their brains bashed in by a Julienne Fry Maker

Original actor to play Ronald McDonald: Jeff Juliano

Diet now followed by Jeff Juliano: Vegetarian

Role model that you are following:  A Clown

Other notable vegetarian athletes:

*    Stan Price: World record-bench press
*    Robert Sweetgall: World's premier ultra-distance walker
*    etc., etc. (about 10 more)

Other notable non-vegetarian athletes:

*    Just about all of them

Sacred food of Native Americans: Corn
Food Native Americans ate whenever they could get it:  Meat

Wingspan of average leghorn chicken: 26 inches

Space average leghorn chicken given in egg factories: 6 inches

Space average potato given in a field:  Not enough to move at all

McDonald's brags: 60 million sold

McDonald's doesn't brag about: 50 million butchered

McDonald's doesn't brag about: Many more millions of potatoes butchered

Americans decapitate countless acres of grass using primitive blade mowers,
without the benefit of anesthetizing these helpless plants.

Effectiveness of all "wonder-drug" antibiotics: Declining rapidly

Reason: reeding of antibiotics resistant bacteria in factory farms due to
routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock

Real Reason:  sharp decline in research and spending on new antibiotics

Number of people who will starve to death this year: 60,000,000

Number of people who could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans
reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 60,000,000

Number of people who would starve if current food supplies were available to 
them: 0

Historic cause of demise of many great civilizations: Topsoil depletion
(Razing more land for vegetable growing would help this?)

Amount of trees spared per year by each individual who switches to pure
vegetarian diet: 1 acre
Amount of trees destroyed by average vegetarian rantings printed on paper:
over 100 acres

Current cost for pound of protein from wheat: $1.50

Current cost for pound of protein from beefsteak: $15.40

Supply of wheat:  large
Demand for wheat: small
Demand for meat:  large
Therefore price of meat is:  high

Cost for pound of protein from beefsteak if U.S. taxpayers ceased subsidizing
meat industry's use of water: $89

Cost saved if agricultural subsidies were eliminated:  billions of dollars

Training in nutrition received during 4 years of medical school by average U.S.
physician: 2.5 hours

Profession of physician:  physician
Profession of nutritionist:  nutritionist

Most common cause of death in U.S.: Heart attack
Most common cause of death in U.S. if vegetarianism were law:  Civil War

Number of cases of osteoporosis and kidney failure in the United States:
Tens of millions

The average measurable bone loss of female meat-eaters at age 65: 35%

The average measurable bone loss of female vegetarians at age 65: 18%

Bone loss prevented by calcium, present in "evil" milk.

The Dairy Council occasionally tells children:
The enzyme necessary for digestion of milk is lactase

The children seldom:
Care

The Dairy Council never tells children:
20% of caucasian children and 80% of Black children have no lactase in their
intestines.

The Dairy Council never tells children:
80% of caucasian children and 20% of Black children have lactase in their
intestines.

Percentage of male college students sterile in 1950: 0.5

Percentage of male college students sterile in 1978: 25

Reason:  Vegetable consumption has increased between 1950 and 1978.

"Reason", n.  As defined by the Vegetarian's list, a wild speculation.