The vegetarian movement is alive and well because of hundreds of
thousands of mostly very young and very committed kids who truly believe in
it.  (IMHO.)  At my local co-op the employees have posted "GO VEGAN"
grafitti all over the bathrrom walls, and some of them wear t-shirts with
very insulting epitheets against meat eaters. The hue and cry on the co-op
bulletin board lately is "Give us more vegan cookies and baked goods."  (And
sadly, most of these kids don't look well at all.)
   Govement conspiracy?  No, I don't think so.  I do think the powers that
be are getting behind it because of the immense power of the AMA and the
ADA, and the fact that everyone is "hypnotized" into thinking this way about
nutrition. So right now the dietary pendulum has swung in favor of
vegetarianism.  Why?  Because of all those young, idealistic, highly
committed vegetarians in the '60s and '70s who are now baby boomers.  Not
because of a government conspiracy.
   Most people do not think for themselves (IMO, again), so the party line
of high carb, low fat, little or no meat, has become gospel.  But even that
may be slowly-- ever so slowly-- changing, as more and more people wake up
to the fact that people are dropping like flies  from insulin
response-related diseases that they were told they wouldn't get if they just
listened to Dean Ornish.
   The processed food industry will milk this for all they get out of it, of
course.  Wouldn't we all be shocked if they didn't?  But when low carb is
back in favor, I'm sure the meat and dairy industry will do the same.
--Sharrhan

>The vegetarian movement is fueled by dollars from individuals to special
>interest groups which are greased by political action committees who are
>fueled by one big sugar daddy called Government.  It's pure power
>politics.......  I don't believe in altruistic motives when it comes to the
>deep pockets of the tax payer.

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