Fur: Mean, Not "Green"
Fur is mean, and not 'green', claims PETA, stating that 'more than 60 times as much energy is needed to produce fur coats from ranch-raised animals than is needed to produce fake furs'. Which might as well be true, if one excludes things such as oil-drilling and transport, refining, and such, from the polymer side of that calculation. Since they haven't bothered to actually show us how they got to the number they cite, that is probably so.
Let's Destroy the Family, Says PETA...
Your mother is a killer, PETA says to kids. And you know what? They're telling the truth. Our mothers, our fathers, we ourselves, are killers. Every time you eat, drink, turn on the light, you kill something, directly or indirectly. Even the self-righteous PETA morons do. Just our mere existence
kills other living beings, because where you live, someone else can't. That is a fact of life. A rule of the game. There's no way around it.
But when you show kids a picture of a woman (representing their mummy), knifing a scared-faced bunny (bunnies can't make scared faces, but when has PETA cared about the facts), it tells the kids that mummy is an evil person. That she should be feared. Shunned. Avoided. Put to prison. Cast out of the society.
Mummy!That picture has nothing to do with fur. Or the conditions in which animals raised for fur live. It is a picture of
mummy butchering a cute, cuddly, fluffy bunny! She's not wearing a furcoat. She's wearing something a housewife might wear in a 50's commercial for household products. While working in a kitchen. She's not wearing fur in those clothes, she's preparing dinner. It should be quite obvious where this picture is going...
Don't they think the family structure has taken enough beating in the last few decades? Is anyone else thinking, '1984' and 'Spies'?
Vegetarians Live Longer? I Think Not...
From an opposition publication..."Do vegetarians live longer than the general population? Absolutely! Vegetarians outlast the general population by perhaps as much as ten healthy years--a whole extra decade on Earth! (maybe as a karmic reward for living lives dedicated to justice and compassion :)
But naysayers like the Cattlemen's Association like to ascribe the extra years to "Non-dietary aspects of a vegetarian lifestyle such as regular physical activity and abstinence from smoking...". But we argued it was because we didn't eat meat. Is our extra decade because we just tend to smoke less and exercise, or is it because of what we actually eat?
To answer that question, researchers tried to control for these other factors by comparing vegetarians to healthy meat-eaters. To tease out the contribution of diet, researchers compared vegetarians to meat-eaters who were just as lean as vegetarians, smoked just as little and had similar social class or education (and who were of course the same age and gender). And what they found shocked them--the vegetarians did not seem to live any longer than the healthy meat-eaters. Wait a second, who did this study? The meat and dairy board? No, the principal investigator is an animal rights vegan.
Yes, the vegetarians in the study lived six years longer than the general population, but so did the meat-eaters! Other than their healthy lifestyles, this group of meat-eaters studied ate more fruits and veggies than your typical meat-eater and less meat. Wondering if that's why they weren't seeing a greater vegetarian advantage, the researchers compared the vegetarians to just those that ate meat regularly. And although there was no survival advantage over those that just ate meat a few times a month, vegetarians did seem to live about two years longer than those who ate meat every week. But just two years longer? We deserve better than that! And the vegans in the study did even worse."
...
"Well that was 1999. Maybe it was just a fluke. In 2002, an update on the Oxford Vegetarian Study was published which had been following 8,000 vegetarians for 18 years. And sadly they found the same thing--those that didn't eat meat didn't live any longer than those that did eat meat (after all the other variables were taken into account). What's going on?
And finally, just last month the mortality results from the single biggest study on vegetarians in human history was published, following almost 18,000 vegetarians. I had been waiting years to get my hands on it. And it shows... no survival advantage. What's going on?"
So, as this
vegan MD says himself, it is NOT a matter of diet. It is a matter of exercise. Of not smoking.
Not diet!Shall we call
this case closed?
Edit...
In case you, like a person I discussed this issue with, don't believe Dr Greger's interpretation, here are the articles he's refering to:
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