Sep 11, 2011 -- 8:19AM, arielg wrote:

Wow!  What a relief! Meat eaters were right all along.  They are not boorish. It is not fair to scare them like that. Some of them were probably trinking on cutting down on those burgers. People can be so cruel.

:)

I'll stick with what biochemistry teaches us and what groups like the Humane Society informs us of, like the abuse of living cows who were too sick to be "steered" to their deaths on their own two feet.

Sep 11, 2011 -- 4:15PM, solfeggio wrote:

I wouldn't term people who eat meat as boorish, which simply means rude and clumsy, but they can be termed naive, or lacking critical judgment in that they ignore all the scientifically proven data showing that, in general, meat really isn't all that healthy.

Numerous times, your insistence that it's been scientifically proven that meat-eating isn't healthy has been countered.

"Lacking critical judgment" merely demeans the many rational people who have examined the evidence and disagree with you.

As well, you could take this further and say that people who eat whatever they please in whatever quantities they wish, which would include most meat eaters, surely, could be described as indulgent.

Assuming this to be the generic you, anyone who does so is engaging in complete poppycock since it's completely illogical to state that "most meat eaters...could be described as indulgent" in the sense of eating "whatever they please in whatever quantities they wish." Numerous people here have attested to the fact that they balance their diets carefully and endeavor to restrain their impulsive food choices. 

Once again, people who eat ANY amount of meat are maligned, and in this instance, all out of proportion to known reality.

Since this is a meat-eating culture to an enormous degree, anybody who steps out of the culture and decides, for health or philosophical reasons, not to eat meat anymore, could be described as an independent thinker, or even somebody with decidedly unorthodox views.

More logically, anyone who does so could be described as a person who has chosen not to eat meat. That they do this one thing does not necessarily mean they are independent thinkers or possess any unorthodox views since they might easily be refraining from meat for religious reasons which hardly makes them independent or unorthodox (in more than one sense...pun intended).

In any case, I would wish that more attention would be paid to the horrific abuses found in the animal agriculture industry than in what some pseudo-scientist has to say about meat eating in general.

With this much, I heartily agree.