Doug Freyburger > wrote in
:

> Going vegitarian is not
> healthier. It's healthier than eating nothing but MacDonalds
> maybe, but not healthier than eating real food.

Actually, for an adult human, the eating of meat is not required.
Vegan perhaps pushes the envelope but ovo-lacto vegetarian is fine
if one takes care to balance the meals.

FWIW, Weight Watchers was pushing Bota burgers a while back with
the advert that it tasted like meat. When I pointed out that
vegetarians were not looking for things that tasted like meat, all
all I got was a blank stare, about the same one as I got when I
asked about miso soup (they had no idea wehat it was). I did see
some Bota burgers in stores (not any more, but I don't look for
them) but never bought them.

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I read about an [Inuk] hunter who asked the local missionary
priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to
hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know."
"Then why," asked the [Inuk], "did you tell me?"

Annie Dillard