On Mar 07, 2007, at 12:24 am, C. Kuni wrote:

> I cannot discount his article just based on my
> personal opinion of him -- that would be an ad hominem argument

Actually I wasn't discounting his article based on him personally,  
but based on the fact he believes meat putrefies in your digestive  
tract.  Now I know it's possible for someone to be wrong about a  
couple of little things and still have a valid argument, but when  
someone spews complete garbage like that I tend to switch off.

Perhaps I'm becoming blinkered, but the BS to truth ratio is so high  
among food articles that when people start off saying things as  
blatantly stupid as that, there's a little light that comes on in my  
head that tells me to go and rearrange my vegetable tray instead.   
The BBC news health section <http://news.bbc.co.uk/health> has a  
similar effect on me, as does anything starting with "lowers bad  
cholesterol"...