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31-08-2004, 01:44 PM

On Tuesday, in article

"Paul Rooney" wrote:

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:38:34 +0100, "Jim Webster"
wrote:

"Tinkerbell" wrote in message
t...
Rubystars wrote:

"Tinkerbell" wrote in message
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And you think craving chocolate means I'm not eating a full and varied
diet? *rolls eyes* Get over yourself.

I think eating a vegan or vegetarian diet is what means you're not
eating a
full and varied diet. Especially vegan.

-Rubystars

What utter rubbish.

by definition it has to be less full and varied than the diet of someone who
can eat everything you can plus meat products etc

Jim Webster

Not necessarily. The meat-eater might live on BigMacs and nothing
else, while the vegan scoffs an enormous variety of veg and fruit.

I know of one or two vegetarians who seem as extreme in that direction
as your example of a Big Mac eater. Either way, what seems like an
insanely unvarying diet, though both might contain adequate nutrition.

And meat production converts vegetable matter we cannot digest into meat
that we can. The current meat production industry does use crops we
could directly, and so is wasteful of resources. That doesn't mean that
a zero-meat diet is the optimum.

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