marieclare, ever see flies, worms and bugs in the vegetable garden? Rabbits, Coons, birds, cats, bugs and just about everything else that walks, crawls or flies eat, pee and *beep* on the plants. I think I've found and eaten more "bugs" in my vegetables than I ever have in any meat.
"most" vegetables have harsh pesticides on them that don't wash off very well. I have several relatives that are vegetarians and they are all under weight and undernourished and are always sick and having to take all kinds of multi vitamins, suppliments and eat stuff like brewer's yeast, soy milk (blah!) and all of that other "health food" stuff, that by the way, isn't "natural" at all, and why? because their bodies are lacking the needed meat protiens to sustain a healthy body. If suppliments and processed foods such as soy milk, brewer's yeast, and all that other stuff was "natural", how did past generations survive on "natural living" then without suppliments and processed food products when they didn;t have stuff like that back then? They ate meat, that's why. No thanks, gimme a big thick juicy steak and a Twinkie for desert anyday

or chicken! I love chicken. Here chicky, chicky, chicky!
Don't get me worng, I'm not trying to bash you or anything for being a vegetarian, I'm just making some conversation is all and saying most of this with tongue in cheek. If you like being a vegetarian, that's great

Besides, I like my veggies too

but meat protien isn't as bad as most vegetarians make it out to be, and just about all mammals living on this planet depend on meat protien (of some sort or another) to sustain a healthy body, human mammals included. To each his own though. It's all good if it works for you

I still like my meat and heavily processed foods. When I croak, they won;t have to embalm me, because I'll alrady have enough preservatives in my body to do the job all by itself

"Healthy eating" didn't help Yuell Gibbon's or Linda Mc Cartney very well... Gimme a Spam and Velveeta sandwich on Wonder Bread with lots of Miracle Whip, an ice cold Coke and a frozen Ding Dong or two for desert, and I'm a happy guy
