I don't feel that any of that is a reason NOT to eat animals, but it is
something everyone should truly be aware of so we have a sense of gratitude
to other animals and a sense of balance to our idea of our place in the
world..................that we are, first and foremost, animals like all
other animals with instincts based on our evolution.

P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dori Zook" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: Killing !


> >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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