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Lisa M. Giustino Aruba — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:46:08 GMT

As a practioner of the pagan religion, I am all for saving the planet and not causing harm to anyone or anything including animals. I have a beautiful angora siamese garfield sized-cat. she is most definitely a witch's cat. some people are a little ridiculous. I eat whatever I feel like. I buy food pre-prepared or in the supermarket to be cooked at home. I don't eat red meat for health issues. Once in a while I really enjoy a good ribeye. It's not me that's doing the killing of the animal to get that ribeye anyway. No, I can't eat something that was clucking in my backyard yesterday morning. I am an animal lover!!

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Eric Prescott — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:22:10 GMT

If someone eats an animal, she is responsible for his death, regardless of whether she killed himself. Arguably, saying someone else did the killing is a morally vacuous cop-out.

How you can anyone call herself an animal lover and still eat animals?

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Stan Thomas, Salt Lake City, Utah — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:38:08 GMT

I really understand your position. I was in the same boat for many years. I had respect for vegans and vegetarians, but I never seriously considered becoming one. After 40 years I finally began to realize just how unhealthy I had become. I only wish I had become vegan years earlier. I enjoy food more now than ever before. Really, I do! I lost over 40 lbs. I go on twenty five mile and longer backpacking trips (could barely make it a mile with no backpack at age 38). I bike to work and back 20 miles every day. I only changed my diet. All of the exercise started after I lost weight and all ready felt much better. I did not exercise at all to lose weight.

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Andrew Cone, Chicago, Illinois — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:12:14 GMT

You should become a vegan. Seriously. The longer you try not to think about these issues, the more harm you're doing to animals in the meantime.

I became vegan a year ago, because I realized that eating meat just didn't make any moral sense. Why should I pay someone to do something I couldn't and wouldn't do myself? It took me several uncomfortable months, but I can't imagine eating meat again.