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Re: Dairy Liars Get Told Off
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<JQ9ne.11788$M36.6955~newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
George Lagergren <gel44~earthlink.net> wrote:
><rudy-canoza~excite.com> wrote:
>> From: "Robert Cohen" <notmilk~...> Date: Fri May 27, 2005
>> 11:15 am Subject: Congrats to Notmilk Reader (& Writer)
>> notmilk2002
>>
>> Congrats to Notmilk Reader (& Writer)
>>
>> On April 19, 2005, after reading a bit of dairy industry
>> propaganda (Hoard's Dairyman had reported, "A strictly
>> vegetarian diet harms children's growth."), I posted this
>> column:
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>> <http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message-
>> /1991 >
>>
>> One Notmilk reader, Ann Mallon, wrote a letter of protest
>> to the editor of Hoard's. I was pleased to see the
>> following on page 374 of the May 25, 2005 issue of the
>> National Dairy Farm Magazine:
>>
>> "The Vegetarian Side
>>
>> Please check your sources before you make such a report as
>> you did (April 10 issue, page 255) saying vegan children
>> are unhealthy. Meat is a multi-business industry, and this
>> was taken advantage to disseminate propaganda.
>>
>> Your claims are complete rubbish. I am a nutritionist and a
>> vegan and previously was unhealthy eating a meat diet. I
>> also was anemic. Plant foods are what nature intended for
>> us, not carcasses.
Anyone who makes statements about what "nature intended" is a
goofball. Nature is not a conscious entity.
Anyone who can't see that humans are clearly omnivores is an
idiot and need not be taken seriously.
>> Meat is such big dollars, and that's why it exists today.
I think meat existed before there were dollars.
>> The companies want to frigthen vegans off by implanting
>> their evil lies. That lie now exists as justification for
>> meat producers to condemn a plant-based diet as being
>> unhealthy. One molehill of propaganda has grown into a
>> mountain of misunderstanding."
It doesn't have to be unhealthy, but for vegans, getting
enough B12 is more work.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my
opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "I don't
need someone to tell me that George W. Bush is a deceitful,
corrupt, clever and destructive man--that's pretty clear on
the face of it." -- Garrison Keillor
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