"rick" > wrote in message
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> "Scented Nectar" > wrote in message
> ...
> > "useless cesspool" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Skanky Nutball wrote:
> >> >>> Vegan is a life style as well.
> >> >>
> >> >>It's a religion, not a diet, and it's based on a form of
> >> >>paganism which
> >> >>puts man and beast on the same plane (which contradicts the
> >> >>Torah).
> >> >
> >> > It is not paganism.
> >>
> >> It's BASED on paganism.
> >
> > You're ****ed up. Are evil pagans
> > also trying to get you? Do people
> > call you paranoid when it's really
> > the fault of those evil pagans?
> > They really ARE out to get you,
> > aren't they?
> >
> >> > Veganism boils down to diet.
> >>
> >> No, it doesn't.
> >>
> >> There is no such thing as a "dietary vegan." A "total
> >> vegetarian" may eat a diet free of animals products for
> >> health
> >> reasons, such as avoiding cholesterol, and not out of
> >> compassion
> >> for animals. However, popular vegan author Joanne
> >> Stepaniak
> >> writes that the term "dietary vegan" is inappropriate
> >> because
> >> veganism is by definition about helping animals, and a
> >> term such
> >> as "total vegetarian" should be used for people who
> >> avoid eating
> >> animal products for health reasons but, for example, buy
> >> leather
> >> shoes.
> >>
> >> http://www.websters-online-dictionar...finition/vegan
> >
> > If you look a little closer, that's under
> > SPECIALTY MEANING.
> =========================
> No fool, it is NOT a specialty meaning. The specialty meaning is
> that of lazy vegan waanbes like you that don't reallt want to
> bother themselves with doing anything of meaning. Again, here is
> the real meaning of veganism, as defined by the guy who made up
> the word.
>
> "Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of
> exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes
> a reverence for life. It applies to the practice of living on the
> products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of flesh, fish,
> fowl, eggs, honey, animal milk and its derivatives, and
> encourages the use of alternatives for all commodities derived
> wholly or in part from animals "
>
> Diet is no more, or less of any importance than any other portion
> of a REAL vegans life. Of course, there are NO real vegans here
> on usenet, eh hypocrite?

The above quoted dictionary has
it under specialty. This is because
language evolves. The more
modern definition includes those
who do it for animal reasons
but also includes those who eat
that way for other reasons. The
thing all (modern def.) vegans have
in common is their diet. If you
think there are no vegans on usenet
why is there this newsgroup?

> > Ignorance, stupidity, hypocrisy and delusion. Stop in for a
> > laugh...

Oh shut up Dicky.


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