USA TODAY via Yahoo.com had a fun article written by a guy who reported the funny fact that occuring in football season is ‘Veggie Month”…. the guy writing the article summarized the position of most real men….. thusly:
Two reasons why I won’t join the “Eat No Meat Club”:
•As a country boy in South Dakota, while in high school I worked in an old-fashioned “butcher shop.” Owner Tom Rosser paid me $1 a week and all the salami I could eat. He also taught me how to cook a steak rare.
•In Europe in WW II, we all knew that that Nazi nut Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
Please pass the meat.
There are many reasons that being a veggie boy is nuts. Besides taste, let me say, cobalamin is one of the only things that comes only from animal protein. Several surveys have shown that most strict, long-term vegetarians are vitamin B12 deficient. The Scandanavian researchers have demonstrated clear intellectual deficits from children reaised as vegetarians.. enough said.
I don’t want to pick on the vegetarians too much… I have fond memories of vegetarians giving me their tickets to ‘steak night’ while I was an athlete at UCLA… however, it does seem like it is a ‘religious experience’ for some women. Vegetarian men? Oh, they may exist… but they play soccer.
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Here’s a word from the veggie supporters:
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Horray for Female Vegetarians huh?
YELP!
Well, I also found a few sites that extolled the virtues of vegetarians with a philosophical and political message. I even found ‘poetry’… words like’ when I look into a plate of meat… I see a baby crying for her mother.” ….pllleeeeaaassseee!
So… to celebrate this month… I’ll fix an extra large TURDUCKEN next month for Thanksgiving… it’s a lot better than one made from ‘Tofu”.
Roger Freberg