>They have no concept that it used to be alive, and had to
>die to sustain them. They distance them self from this knowledge, and
>create an artificial belief system that nature is so cuddly, friendly
>and "co-operative".

Bingo, Jim!  You mentioned National Geographic; what they show ain't pretty
but it's exactly what happens.  Animals eat animals.  I can see it now; a
lion running swift and strong after a sleek, lovely antelope, finally
catching her.  What follows is guts and gore that rival Hollywood's worst
war scenes.  Welcome to reality!

Yet every vegetarian I know (literally) is in great denial.  If they were
truly educated (all adult vegetarians I know have at least a bachelors
degree), vegetarians could at least admit that animals survive by eating
other animals but another tenet or this philosophy is, apparenlty, selective
memory.

Dori Zook
Denver, CO

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