{"id":320,"date":"2011-12-23T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2011-12-23T20:26:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T01:26:42","slug":"vegetarians-blood-on-their-hands-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/vegetarians-blood-on-their-hands-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians: Blood on their hands, after all?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s not much question that humans, their teeth and digestive systems, have adapted over the years to eating meat.\u00a0 Not much question either that eating natural meat is good for you.\u00a0 Not even any question that eating natural fat is good for you, too.<\/p>\n

The argument vegetarians advance that many have trouble answering is the ethical one; that is, we’re using our power to kill another sentient life.<\/p>\n

Well now, wait a minute.\u00a0 According to a study\u00a0in Australia, producing grain for protein results in 25 times the number of animals killed per kilogram of meat.<\/p>\n

Forget the slaughter caused by a reaper in a field of wheat, that wheat also requires tons of poisons to produce which kills millions of small mammals, snakes and mice.\u00a0 Did you know mice sing?\u00a0 (OK, neither did I)\u00a0 But baby mice sing a sad song to call their mothers back to the nest.\u00a0 Every mouse we kill leaves about six babies to die of starvation and dehydration.<\/p>\n

And mice and other small mammals, like the soil, have a role to play in Nature’s plan.<\/p>\n

So vegetarians, if your objection to eating meat is an ethical one, it is time to think again.<\/p>\n

NOTE:\u00a0 thanks to our friend Dr. Sue Beal, a holistic veterinarian in Pennsylvania, who forwarded the article.\u00a0 Here’s the link:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/theconversation.edu.au\/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-theres-more-animal-blood-on-your-hands-4659<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s not much question that humans, their teeth and digestive systems, have adapted over the years to eating meat.\u00a0 Not much question either that eating natural meat is good for you.\u00a0 Not even any question that eating natural fat is good for you, too. The argument vegetarians advance that many have trouble answering is the ethical one; that is, we’re using our power to kill another sentient life. Well now, wait a minute.\u00a0 According to a study\u00a0in Australia, producing grain for protein results in 25 times the number of animals killed per kilogram of meat. Forget the slaughter caused by a reaper in a field of wheat, that wheat also requires tons of poisons to produce which kills millions of small mammals, snakes and mice.\u00a0 Did you know mice sing?\u00a0 (OK, neither did I)\u00a0 But baby mice sing a sad song to call their mothers back to the nest.\u00a0 Every mouse we kill leaves about six babies to die of starvation and dehydration. And mice and other small mammals, like the soil, have a role to play in Nature’s plan. So vegetarians, if your objection to eating meat is an ethical one, it is time to think again. NOTE:\u00a0 thanks to our friend Dr. Sue Beal, a holistic veterinarian in Pennsylvania, who forwarded the article.\u00a0 Here’s the link: http:\/\/theconversation.edu.au\/ordering-the-vegetarian-meal-theres-more-animal-blood-on-your-hands-4659<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}