Wow! 2 Entries in 1 Day!

First of all, there's nothing wrong with a vegeterian diet or being Vegan, just as long as they don't push their strict views on me..

After PETA's last effort to make people become Vegans (using Ronald Regan to tell people that meat doubles the risk of Alheimer's(sp?))..I wanna make an activist page about either not eating or just eating meat because animals can at least fight back, but plants can't..THOSE POOR LIVING HARMLESS PLANTS!!! I need a name for it..and it could be as extreme as Vegans and say, no plant products and don't walk on the grass, don't wear cotton, heck, don't wear anything! Even rubber comes from rubber plants! Don't use cars or anything with tires..etc..synthetic stuff only! lol..

But back to this Alzheimer's Disease thing, it says on the site:

PETA recently sent a letter to the Office of Ronald Reagan, asking for Nancy Reagan’s support for this important public outreach campaign. Instead of embracing this lifesaving effort, the office instead insisted that we “cease and desist.” Because President Reagan is a public figure and because this ad doesn’t sell a product but instead promotes a Web page with the latest research about Alzheimer’s, PETA has the legal right to run the ad. But should we?

"Latest research"?????? The link goes to a Vegan site..Truely scientific information should be unbiased!!!! The site is WAY one-sided and they use statistics to make it sound like meat is the Devil..and that meat kills! I could easilly use statistics to make a Vegan diet kill you..I bet I could make a vegitarian diet sound like it causes the disease..they say, "In fact, Alzheimer’s disease rates have been shown to be 70 percent lower in people following a diet rich in whole grains and low in animal fats compared to a traditional American diet."

You know why? Cuz there are LESS people that are vegaterians than meat eaters..so the number of people dying from the disease (which they could call "rates") will be higher among meat eaters..I bet that it's equal on perportion of how many meat eaters to vegetarians there are..or heck, the Vegan's Alzheimer's victims tally could be a higher percentage, yet, they can report just the numbers and the meat eater's numbers will still be higher..

What I can't understand is why they claim that meat is the problem, but also say:

The scariest thing about this disease is that it seems to be brand new! There is absolutely no mention of anything that could be considered Alzheimer’s disease in any medical, religious, or secular literature before the turn of the last century. That means that in the last 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease has gone from non-existence to a disease that kills nearly 54,000 people every year in the United States alone and affects millions more.

So.........did we just start eating meat? I thought the cavemen did..I thought people in "biblical" times did..I thought the earliest farmers did..I thought turkey was eaten for the first Thanksgiving (I could be wrong!)..Native Americans hunted a lot..Eskimos eat lots of fish........are the rates higher among those two groups? What about the BILLIONS of people who still eat meat and have been eating meat for their whole lives? Shouldn't we all be experiencing memory loss, dementia-like symtoms, etc.? I eat LOTS of meat and dairy and hardly any vegetables and my memory impresses people..or at least used to..I recently started eating salads every other day and my memory has actually gotten WORSE! So hmm..

The site says, "Could it be linked to the exponential rise in meat consumption..." um.. has the rise in meat consumption grown exponentially because the population itself grows fast and the ability to get food (mostly meat) has gotten easier and animal populations could be going as well?

Looky here: http://www.goveg.com/feat/alzheimers/madcow.asp

The graphs suck! it's like they said "the graphs from 1980's meat production and the Alzheimer's rates from 2000 look similar, let's use those!" The graphs should at least be within a 5 year time period or the findings be consistent over a certain amount of years! According to the graphs, why doesn't Nigeria have more Alzheimer's? And shouldn't Canada, too? What's wrong with Japan having so many cases of Alzheimer's and such a low meat production?

Another thing about the one-sidedness..I found out about this on Fox News where they said, "They're having a poll on their site to whether visitors feel they should be able to run the ad or not despite the disproval of Mrs. Reagan..."..I went there to vote "no" on it cuz I think they should get approval first and Reagan's dead and can't tell them not to run it..I get there and the question makes you feel guilty if you say "no"..Grr..it's like going to an extreme Christian site and they ask "Are you a Christian?" and rather than asking for an honest response of "yes" or "no", you get "Yes - I am a true Christian, I believe in the literal translation of the King James Version of the Bible, I attend Church regularly, and I live my life as close as Christ's as possible and will go to Heaven with my Christian bothers and sisters." and "No - I am not Christian, I hurt people, follow false Gods and religions, live in sin, and will someday soon be sent to the fiery depths of Hell to rot for all of eternity if I do not get saved"..HELLO? Who in their right mind gonna answer "no"? I did..most people probably will feel guilty and pick "yes"..

Yeah, WHATEVER!!!! Now I'm gonna go get me some ham...

Posted by Hope at August 16, 2004 07:20 PM

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