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"Left wing kookiness"
"Volker Hetzer" writes:
(Before you start to argue: I happily eat meat but I'm willing to reduce that if someone convince me that it really helps. Right now it just means that the meat price goes down and someone else in my city eats more meat.) From a carbon-emission standpoint, eating less meat is good. For example, the Canadian government claims not eating meat every other day saves around a quarter ton of carbon-emissions annually; not sure if that counts methane with its carbon-equivalence or not... Cheers, -- mike [at] mike [dash] warren.com URL:http://www.mike-warren.com GPG: 0x579911BD :: 87F2 4D98 BDB0 0E90 EE2A 0CF9 1087 0884 5799 11BD |
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"Left wing kookiness"
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:06:50 GMT, Jonathan Ball
wrote: "Diet for a Small Planet" IS INDEED an expression of leftist political thinking. So is "veganism". If someone tells me he's "vegan", I know EVERYTHING about his politics; there's nothing concealed. My goodness -- a psychic! I am an omnivore (except for lima beans), but I find there are many reasons behind vegetarian/vegan preferences ranging widely among the religious, ethical, health, and economic. *I* sure can't tell anyone's politics from their food preferences. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
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Mike Warren wrote: "Volker Hetzer" writes: (Before you start to argue: I happily eat meat but I'm willing to reduce that if someone convince me that it really helps. Right now it just means that the meat price goes down and someone else in my city eats more meat.) From a carbon-emission standpoint, eating less meat is good. For example, the Canadian government claims not eating meat every other day saves around a quarter ton of carbon-emissions annually; not sure if that counts methane with its carbon-equivalence or not... I'd love to see the support for that claim. Anyway, it ignores the fact that not all meat is produced the same way. For example, if you eat "normal" grain-fattened beef, your contribution to carbon emissions is going to be much greater than if you eat grass-fed (only) beef, which is increasingly available, or if you were to eat some game you hunted yourself. Another "anyway" point: the optimal amount of pollution is not zero. You may wish to reduce the pollution you cause, but you'll never push it to zero. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
Frogleg wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:06:50 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: "Diet for a Small Planet" IS INDEED an expression of leftist political thinking. So is "veganism". If someone tells me he's "vegan", I know EVERYTHING about his politics; there's nothing concealed. My goodness -- a psychic! No; an astute observer. No psychic ability is required. I am an omnivore (except for lima beans), Ooohh, you're missing out on a truly delicious and nutritious and versatile food. but I find there are many reasons behind vegetarian/vegan preferences ranging widely among the religious, ethical, health, and economic. *I* sure can't tell anyone's politics from their food preferences. You could, if you'd study harder. Lurking behind EVERY "vegan's" - not vegetarian's - dietary choices is some kind of belief in animal "rights". People may be vegetarian for a variety of reasons, but people are "vegan" out of a belief in leftist/collectivist dogma. Most don't even bother to deny it; those who do can always quickly be shown to be liars. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:10:59 GMT, Jonathan Ball
wrote: Bob Brock wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:51:16 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: Jonathan Ball wrote: Bob Brock wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:11:43 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: Look: less is more. Right is Wrong. War is Peace. It figures, in your pig-headedness and stupidity, that you'd snip out and ignore what I wrote about concise writing being better than wheezy, droning rants; you're a droner yourself. Here, in case you want to have another try at it, fat ****: A quote I've seen attributed to Pascal, Montaigne and Mark Twain - I'm sorry to be confusing you with those two foreigners, Gosh, you got me there. All this time, I thought Mark Twain was an American. Learn something new every day. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
Bob Brock wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:10:59 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: Bob Brock wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:51:16 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: Jonathan Ball wrote: Bob Brock wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:11:43 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: Look: less is more. Right is Wrong. War is Peace. It figures, in your pig-headedness and stupidity, that you'd snip out and ignore what I wrote about concise writing being better than wheezy, droning rants; you're a droner yourself. Here, in case you want to have another try at it, fat ****: A quote I've seen attributed to Pascal, Montaigne and Mark Twain - I'm sorry to be confusing you with those two foreigners, Gosh, you got me there. All this time, I thought Mark Twain was an American. You can't count, either, can you? You fat ****. Twain was the third one listed. In your pig-headedness and stupidity, you're still missing the essential point: saying the same thing in fewer words is a more powerful way of expressing yourself. Learn something new every day. No, you haven't learned anything new in a looooooong time. Pig-headed fools seldom do. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
"Volker Hetzer" wrote in message
... "Jonathan Ball" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ink.net... Rico X. Partay wrote: "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... Diet for a Small Planet is hardly evidence of anything other than left wing kookiness. If you want to trust your life to something that nutty then do so, otherwise have some animal products in your diet. When you use adjectives like "left wing" in a technical discussion about nutrition you tend to show you have an adgenda that has nothing to do with the merits of the argument, and you thereby lower the credibility of anything useful you may have to say. To paraphrase Al Franken, arguing about whether a diet is "left wing" or "right wing" is like arguing whether al-Qaeda uses too much vinegar in its salad dressing. It may be true, but it's completely beside the point. Hope this helps. It only helped to show that you aren't very astute, and you're probably too contaminated by notions of political correctness ever to learn. "Diet for a Small Planet" IS INDEED an expression of leftist political thinking. So is "veganism". If someone tells me he's "vegan", I know EVERYTHING about his politics; there's nothing concealed. That's a pretty small platform from which to jump to such large conclusions. However, it is sadly typical of far-right reactionaries, Repuppetcans, and others of that ilk. Sorry, maybe I'm living in the wrong country for this but all the vegans *I* know vote either right (CDU) or just very slightly left from the center (SPD). None of them would even consider the PDS or any other leftwing party. For me your statement is a typical I-don't-like-it-so-it-must-be-commy-stuff generalisation. As for "diet for a small planet", that's about defeating world hunger by reducing food chain related losses. Not much leftwing stuff there except maybe that hunger is bad. (Before you start to argue: I happily eat meat but I'm willing to reduce that if someone convince me that it really helps. Right now it just means that the meat price goes down and someone else in my city eats more meat.) Nice try, Herr Hetzer, but apparently Mr. Ball already knows everything he needs to know. What this actually means is that he is now fully immune to any further learning, growth or insight. Having a meaningful discussion with his type is not only unlikely, but also utterly pointless. All of his beliefs and opinions are burnished with the light of Truth Revealed, at least in his own mind, and the minds of his fellow-travelers. By the way, thank you for participating. I always enjoy reading your comments. Jeff |
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"Left wing kookiness" (was: Self-Sufficiency Acreage...?)
"Strider" wrote in message
... On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:19:51 -0800, "Rico X. Partay" wrote: "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... Diet for a Small Planet is hardly evidence of anything other than left wing kookiness. If you want to trust your life to something that nutty then do so, otherwise have some animal products in your diet. When you use adjectives like "left wing" in a technical discussion about nutrition you tend to show you have an adgenda that has nothing to do with the merits of the argument, and you thereby lower the credibility of anything useful you may have to say. To paraphrase Al Franken, arguing about whether a diet is "left wing" or "right wing" is like arguing whether al-Qaeda uses too much vinegar in its salad dressing. It may be true, but it's completely beside the point. Hope this helps. The source of any information is relevant to the value of that information. Any info from leftwing, tofu sucking, liberals is rife with their philosophy, is based on fantasy, and is suspect from the outset. But even a stopped clock is correct twice every day. Also "[a]ny info from leftwing, tofu sucking, liberals is rife with their philosophy, is based on fantasy, and is suspect from the outset" reads awfully close to "I am uncomfortable with anything that challenges my present preconceptions and beliefs, so I prefer to argue more about the source than the content." Jeff |
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"Left wing kookiness"
"Volker Hetzer" wrote in message ... "Jonathan Ball" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ink.net... I looked it up, you know? Have a look at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...5666?v=glance. Thanks for posting that. It helps to confirm that the author, Frances Lappe, is a leftwing extremist. So what exactly makes him that? Can you imagine Kim Il Sung not eating meat or what exactly makes someone leftwing and extremist in your eyes? [snip] Mostly just disagreeing with any nonsense he spouts. Jeff |
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"Left wing kookiness"
Jeff McCann wrote:
"Volker Hetzer" wrote in message ... "Jonathan Ball" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ink.net... Rico X. Partay wrote: "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... Diet for a Small Planet is hardly evidence of anything other than left wing kookiness. If you want to trust your life to something that nutty then do so, otherwise have some animal products in your diet. When you use adjectives like "left wing" in a technical discussion about nutrition you tend to show you have an adgenda that has nothing to do with the merits of the argument, and you thereby lower the credibility of anything useful you may have to say. To paraphrase Al Franken, arguing about whether a diet is "left wing" or "right wing" is like arguing whether al-Qaeda uses too much vinegar in its salad dressing. It may be true, but it's completely beside the point. Hope this helps. It only helped to show that you aren't very astute, and you're probably too contaminated by notions of political correctness ever to learn. "Diet for a Small Planet" IS INDEED an expression of leftist political thinking. So is "veganism". If someone tells me he's "vegan", I know EVERYTHING about his politics; there's nothing concealed. That's a pretty small platform from which to jump to such large conclusions. It may appear so to you, but you are wrong. Empirical observation bears it out: "veganism" is a marker, a signal, for extreme leftwing sentiment. Nice try, Herr Hetzer, but apparently Mr. Ball already knows everything he needs to know. When someone identifies himself as "vegan", he has indeed told me all I need to know, in order to know his overall political stance. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
Jeff McCann wrote:
"Strider" wrote in message ... On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:19:51 -0800, "Rico X. Partay" wrote: "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... Diet for a Small Planet is hardly evidence of anything other than left wing kookiness. If you want to trust your life to something that nutty then do so, otherwise have some animal products in your diet. When you use adjectives like "left wing" in a technical discussion about nutrition you tend to show you have an adgenda that has nothing to do with the merits of the argument, and you thereby lower the credibility of anything useful you may have to say. To paraphrase Al Franken, arguing about whether a diet is "left wing" or "right wing" is like arguing whether al-Qaeda uses too much vinegar in its salad dressing. It may be true, but it's completely beside the point. Hope this helps. The source of any information is relevant to the value of that information. Any info from leftwing, tofu sucking, liberals is rife with their philosophy, is based on fantasy, and is suspect from the outset. But even a stopped clock is correct twice every day. In other words, an infinitesimally small and, thus, meaningless slice of time. It figures you'd make much of a trite, hackneyed expression like that. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
Jeff McCann wrote:
"Volker Hetzer" wrote in message ... "Jonathan Ball" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ink.net... I looked it up, you know? Have a look at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...5666?v=glance. Thanks for posting that. It helps to confirm that the author, Frances Lappe, is a leftwing extremist. So what exactly makes him that? Can you imagine Kim Il Sung not eating meat or what exactly makes someone leftwing and extremist in your eyes? [snip] Mostly just disagreeing with any nonsense he spouts. No, that's not it. It's a belief in anti-market, anti-liberty collectivism that is approached from the political left. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
In article . net,
Jonathan Ball wrote: Rico X. Partay wrote: "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... Diet for a Small Planet is hardly evidence of anything other than left wing kookiness. If you want to trust your life to something that nutty then do so, otherwise have some animal products in your diet. When you use adjectives like "left wing" in a technical discussion about nutrition you tend to show you have an adgenda that has nothing to do with the merits of the argument, and you thereby lower the credibility of anything useful you may have to say. To paraphrase Al Franken, arguing about whether a diet is "left wing" or "right wing" is like arguing whether al-Qaeda uses too much vinegar in its salad dressing. It may be true, but it's completely beside the point. Hope this helps. It only helped to show that you aren't very astute, and you're probably too contaminated by notions of political correctness ever to learn. "Diet for a Small Planet" IS INDEED an expression of leftist political thinking. So is "veganism". If someone tells me he's "vegan", I know EVERYTHING about his politics; there's nothing concealed. By this chap's comical worldview, two-thirds of the population of India are lefties, including Narendra Modi, the far-right "saffronist" bigot & leader of bigots in India, he's totally vegan, but maybe he's only pretending to be such a bad rightwing ****** to make the right look bad. And Mussalini's ulcer drove him to vegetarianism therefore he must've been more of a progressive than a fascist. Hitler some believe was a vegan at least until 1931, maybe he should've stayed one, no doubt it was when he started up the meat again he went bad & needed the yummy aroma of cooked people. Leonardo de Vinci was a lefty whiz at designing war machinery. Shakespeare who noticed that meat-eating lowered intelligence was therefore a lefty. FBI serial killer profiler John Douglas, who identified killing animals as one of the three key early warning-behaviors of a psychopath, is a lefty. Whoremongering technocrat H. G. Wells was a lefty. Both Immanuel Kant & Fredrich Nietzsche were lefties (what a flash!) cuz neither would eat meat. Carmen Electra & Tippi Hedrin, great leaders among lefties cuz of their diet. Dwight Yoakum, all his lefty country tunes make me sick. Elvira Mistress of the Night & Chester on Gunsmoke, great lefty philosophers first & foremost. Faggoty ol' Ninjinski, total lefty, couldn't even pirhouette to the right. Plato, bigtime lefty promoting utopiuan vegan politics. The Reverand Fred "Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood" Rogers baiting strangers' children into his pad with toys as he rips off his clothes at the door, complete lefty spaz. William Shatner, I can tell you as a lefty vegetarian myself, what a great leader of lefty thinking he is to have on my side! Not to mention Sy Sperling, what a good lefty gent, fighting for the love-lives of all fellow outcast baldheaded geeks of the world but only if they're lefties, he would NEVER staple a rug on the shiny pate of a rightwinger. Michael Jackson, not so much a buggerer of chimps & small boys as merely a misunderstood lefty. Weird Al Yankovitch, all those silly songs have hidden messages for the Left to take over the world. When Bobcat Goldthwait screams a joke like "I'll have your daughter home by midnight -- in pieces in a bag!" it's cuz as a vegan, this makes him such a funny lefty. And when Bruce Springsteen sings of patriotism, well maybe it is indeed because he's a big lefty, therefore no one ever went to hear him sing but a bunch of working class lefties & dont-ask-don't-tell soldierboys who likewise refuse to eat meat. Oh! Oh! And Carmen Miranda, ever notice how her fruitbowl hat always leaned a little LEFT ... it's cuz she was a vegan (or was that fruitarian). Johnny Cash too, all his songs stink to high heaven because of his progressiveness & vegetarianism. And Leonard Cohen, good lord, you may have thought his "giving me head at the foot of the bed" was his chief obsession, but leaving his politics out of his tunes is a TRICK to bait you into his leftwing buddhahood & living in the back of a van, oh those sneaky lefties. But stranger still is Meatloaf -- should change his name to Nutloaf since he's a vegan, surely so far left he's about to fall off the planet, not that he ever makes his opinions known one way or t'other. If the greater point is that rightwingers hate the planet & want to kill & eat everything & everyone, therefore only bleedingheart lefties won't bludgeon cattle, well, I'm not yet willing to believe that, even if percentage-wise such an argument could be made. I've just never noticed being rightwing OR eating meat COMPLETELY annihilated the possibility of decency. And wouldn't this also make fat boozy meat-eaters like Ted Kennedy right wingers? Also definitely NOT vegetarians are Saddam Hussein, Presidente Marcos & his ugly wife Imelda -- maybe they'd've been good people if only they'd stopped eating meat. I begin to see how an unreasoning sod could come to the conclusion that veggies = lefties! Since the Alberts -- Einstein & Schweitzer -- deplored meat-eating as much as did Hans Christian Anderson, Ben Franklin, Charles Darwin, Frank Zappa, Ghandi & Sir Isaac Newton, THEREFORE only decently progressive super-geniuses are vegetarians, & that leaves out everyone on the right! But golly, rightwingers should get over such self-loathing. Plenty of people who decided not to eat meat are totally down with the rightwing agenda. Many a "right to lifer" DOES extend that to being vegetarian & not shooting doctors. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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"Left wing kookiness"
God DAMN it, you are such a windbag!
paghat wrote: In article . net, Jonathan Ball wrote: Rico X. Partay wrote: "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... Diet for a Small Planet is hardly evidence of anything other than left wing kookiness. If you want to trust your life to something that nutty then do so, otherwise have some animal products in your diet. When you use adjectives like "left wing" in a technical discussion about nutrition you tend to show you have an adgenda that has nothing to do with the merits of the argument, and you thereby lower the credibility of anything useful you may have to say. To paraphrase Al Franken, arguing about whether a diet is "left wing" or "right wing" is like arguing whether al-Qaeda uses too much vinegar in its salad dressing. It may be true, but it's completely beside the point. Hope this helps. It only helped to show that you aren't very astute, and you're probably too contaminated by notions of political correctness ever to learn. "Diet for a Small Planet" IS INDEED an expression of leftist political thinking. So is "veganism". If someone tells me he's "vegan", I know EVERYTHING about his politics; there's nothing concealed. By this chap's comical worldview, two-thirds of the population of India are lefties, Nope. Indians are not generally "vegan". You don't know your ass from your face. [...] You have next to no evidence that any of those people, historical and contemporary, are "vegan". I suppose quite a few of them were or are vegetarian, though; there's a big difference. Try to say what little you have to say in far fewer words next time, windbag. |
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"Left wing kookiness"
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:25:29 GMT, Jonathan Ball
wrote: Bob Brock wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:10:59 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: Bob Brock wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:51:16 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: Jonathan Ball wrote: Bob Brock wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:11:43 GMT, Jonathan Ball wrote: Look: less is more. Right is Wrong. War is Peace. It figures, in your pig-headedness and stupidity, that you'd snip out and ignore what I wrote about concise writing being better than wheezy, droning rants; you're a droner yourself. Here, in case you want to have another try at it, fat ****: A quote I've seen attributed to Pascal, Montaigne and Mark Twain - I'm sorry to be confusing you with those two foreigners, Gosh, you got me there. All this time, I thought Mark Twain was an American. You can't count, either, can you? You fat ****. Twain was the third one listed. In your pig-headedness and stupidity, you're still missing the essential point: saying the same thing in fewer words is a more powerful way of expressing yourself. Grammar counts too. Look up comma usage and multiple subjects. Get back to me. You simply can't communicate and I don't think being less verbose is going to help you. Learn something new every day. No, you haven't learned anything new in a looooooong time. Pig-headed fools seldom do. Yawn.... |
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