Comments on: You’re a Vegan? So What Do You Have Against Plants? http://healthblog.ncpa.org/you%e2%80%99re-a-vegan-so-what-do-you-have-against-plants/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 19:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Katherine Campbell http://healthblog.ncpa.org/you%e2%80%99re-a-vegan-so-what-do-you-have-against-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-62540 Katherine Campbell Sun, 09 May 2010 10:55:57 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8029#comment-62540 I am also a vegetarian and my body has never been in a very good shape. Being a vegan can really make you much heathier..;' I am also a vegetarian and my body has never been in a very good shape. Being a vegan can really make you much heathier..;’

]]> By: florida public adjuster http://healthblog.ncpa.org/you%e2%80%99re-a-vegan-so-what-do-you-have-against-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-53856 florida public adjuster Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:28:33 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8029#comment-53856 Forming a committee to study the problem of deficit spending is as good as saying you are going to do NOTHING. Forming a committee to study the problem of deficit spending is as good as saying you are going to do NOTHING.

]]> By: Michael Kirsch, M.D. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/you%e2%80%99re-a-vegan-so-what-do-you-have-against-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-51274 Michael Kirsch, M.D. Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:24:22 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8029#comment-51274 Vegetarians should realize that broccoli spears and spinach leaves have mothers. It is downright cruel to send this living things down the alimentary canal into a pool of hydrochloric acid. Let them eat cake (sans eggs, of course)! www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com Vegetarians should realize that broccoli spears and spinach leaves have mothers. It is downright cruel to send this living things down the alimentary canal into a pool of hydrochloric acid. Let them eat cake (sans eggs, of course)! http://www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com

]]> By: jordanpattern http://healthblog.ncpa.org/you%e2%80%99re-a-vegan-so-what-do-you-have-against-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-51240 jordanpattern Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:15:00 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8029#comment-51240 I agree with the above commenter, babble, and would like to add that the lives of far more plants are spared by a vegan diet than a meat-eating one. Do not forget that that meat you eat ate SOMETHING during its lifetime, and most often, that food is plant matter. Many more plants die to feed that cow for your steak than would die to simply feed you directly. This kind of "journalism" is lazy in the extreme, and I advise you to engage in more extensive research for your next article than you must have for this one. I agree with the above commenter, babble, and would like to add that the lives of far more plants are spared by a vegan diet than a meat-eating one. Do not forget that that meat you eat ate SOMETHING during its lifetime, and most often, that food is plant matter. Many more plants die to feed that cow for your steak than would die to simply feed you directly.

This kind of “journalism” is lazy in the extreme, and I advise you to engage in more extensive research for your next article than you must have for this one.

]]> By: babble http://healthblog.ncpa.org/you%e2%80%99re-a-vegan-so-what-do-you-have-against-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-51235 babble Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:09:05 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8029#comment-51235 Naturally, this is linking back to a largely discredited, hysterical NY Times piece. None of the "sources" cited by Ms. Anger in the piece come anywhere near to making anything even remotely like the headline claim, of course. Stimulus response isn't evidence of sentience, any more than intracellular communication within the human system is indicative that individual cells are sentient. We have to eat; we don't HAVE TO eat animals. We can either eat that life which we are *reasonably certain* doesn't suffer, or we can choose to eat that life which we are absolutely certain *does* suffer, but which we have absolutely no nutritional requirement to consume. If you're feeling guilty when you eat meat, there's a good reason for that, and a very simple solution: stop eating it. It's unnecessary. Naturally, this is linking back to a largely discredited, hysterical NY Times piece. None of the “sources” cited by Ms. Anger in the piece come anywhere near to making anything even remotely like the headline claim, of course.

Stimulus response isn’t evidence of sentience, any more than intracellular communication within the human system is indicative that individual cells are sentient.

We have to eat; we don’t HAVE TO eat animals.

We can either eat that life which we are *reasonably certain* doesn’t suffer, or we can choose to eat that life which we are absolutely certain *does* suffer, but which we have absolutely no nutritional requirement to consume.

If you’re feeling guilty when you eat meat, there’s a good reason for that, and a very simple solution: stop eating it. It’s unnecessary.

]]> By: Tom H. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/you%e2%80%99re-a-vegan-so-what-do-you-have-against-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-51226 Tom H. Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:07:09 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8029#comment-51226 Good post. I'm tired of feeling guilty every time I eat meat. Good post. I’m tired of feeling guilty every time I eat meat.

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