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Avian Flu !!! YUM YUM!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | January 31, 2008 2:13 PM
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The Stranger's food writers are too kind to meat. Meat is the #1 greenhouse gas industry in the world, it uses far more petroleum and far more water than we can afford, and it's unhealthy in every way: it makes you fat, it's filled with antibiotics and hormones, and it spreads disease from mad cow, e. coli, and bird flu.

All the meat the Stranger has talked its readers into eating has utterly countered any good you've done promoting transit, density and environmentalism.

Plus, it's murder.

Posted by elenchos | January 31, 2008 2:21 PM
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Pepper leaves? Aren't those a nightshade, and hence poisonous?

Posted by oljb | January 31, 2008 2:22 PM
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@2: I can't figure out if you're being serious, or just trolling to turn this into another vegetarian blowout.

Killing and consuming a native, free-roaming Filipino chicken does not contribute to any of the problems that you list.

Posted by Aislinn | January 31, 2008 2:25 PM
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Quite the Epicurean homestead.

Posted by unPC | January 31, 2008 2:32 PM
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IBONG "TIRIRIT"
MAY ANG BABAE NG
MAY LAWIT
BAKLA.


OR WHATEVER, RIGHT?

Posted by Nick | January 31, 2008 2:41 PM
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@2, just for you I am having Steak, Pork Chops and Sushi tonight! YUMMY!! Meat isn't murder! It's TASTY!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | January 31, 2008 2:41 PM
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You know what elenchos, meat is the least of their worries. Shouldn't they be feeling guilty about flying too? I mean, all this talk about saving the world, and yet they continue fly. Why, I bet they even took a filthy cab to the airport. I bet the land in that picture used to be a Crocodile Cafe too. Corporate pigs tore it down and used it to murder animals instead. Hypocrites, all of them.

... wait. What was I talking about again? Oh yeah. Seriously. The best part about travel is the food.

Posted by crk on bellevue ave | January 31, 2008 2:46 PM
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I don't understand why frat boys aways say that, Cato. Millions and millions of people are going to eat meat in their next meal. Why should anyone care about what you are going to eat?

Posted by elenchos | January 31, 2008 2:47 PM
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No, actually, many modern jets get the equivalent of about 100 mpg ... so driving isn't any better.

We used to raise and murder our own chickens. I liked collecting the eggs more, though.

Remember, every time you eat a vegetable, many of them cry when you pull them out of the ground (fun science fact).

Posted by Will in Seattle | January 31, 2008 2:48 PM
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@9, then spare us the "its murder" bull shit. Because when you kill a plant to eat it well that is murder too.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | January 31, 2008 2:50 PM
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It's my duty as a leader of opinion to enlighten you, Mr. Younger. Someday your doctor will tell you you have colon cancer and it will then be time to steer away from the drive thru. Then you'll thank me.

Not for preventing your colectomy, of course, but for making sense of it all for you. In advance, your welcome.

Posted by elenchos | January 31, 2008 2:57 PM
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I think good elenchos sir is trollaxing.

"many modern jets get the equivalent of about 100 mpg"
Okay. Who contorted math to arrive at this number for their agenda? 100 person-miles per gallon maybe?

With 400 people on board a flight from SEA to SFO (what, 750 miles?), that is 100/400 = .25 miles per gallon and about 3000 gallons (.25/750) for the flight. I actually dont know enough about modern aircraft to know if that is a reasonable answer. Sounds to be on the right order of magnitude though.

Posted by crk on bellevue ave | January 31, 2008 3:02 PM
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did anyone say anything about going through a drive thru? for all we know Cato maybe eating small portions or organically grown beef. And what about the Frat boy comment?

elenchos: you are the troll of the day!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | January 31, 2008 3:14 PM
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If calling me a hurtful name helps you hold your worldview together, I can hardly blame you for needing to do it.

Nonetheless, we will need to stop killing animals to save ourselves and our planet. And the Stranger should get on the right side of that.

Posted by elenchos | January 31, 2008 3:22 PM
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I think the Stranger should hold a big old BBQ!!!

BTW, I am not calling you names, I gave you a title. There is a difference.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | January 31, 2008 3:33 PM
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Hello Elenchos, I'm sorry to have used hurtful names and have left you so sad. In fact knowing that I've hurt you has made me weepy as well. Let us cry together for the animals brutally murdered each day to fatten our disgusting nation.

Let us both travel the path taken by our artist friend Jin Wicked and move to the more enlightened Europe were animals are sacred, not slaughtered.

My sincere apologies.

Posted by crk on bellevue ave | January 31, 2008 3:37 PM
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@17, I will bring the sushi and pot roast to help you two celebrate!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | January 31, 2008 3:43 PM
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I thank you for your concern Cato,

While I cannot speak on behalf of Elenchos, I will only attend if you provide Tofu Pot Roast. Since, like plants, fish merely operate on instinct, it is okay to eat them; a point of which I'm sure Elenchos agrees. I will be happy to enjoy your sushi.

No sake please as alcohol is murder to yeast. Plus sake makes Elenchos moody.

Posted by crk on bellevue ave | January 31, 2008 3:48 PM
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by eating animals we can access nutrient sources we normally couldn't access...say like plankton for fish and silage for cattle...also in many parts of the world a vegatarian diet couldn't be local because of the climate and therefore not sustainable.

Posted by Jiberish | January 31, 2008 3:53 PM
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I have a pet soy bean plant at home (he is such a sweety). The thought of eating soy is SICK!! That is total MURDER!!! And I agree about the yeast, we must preserve the diminishing yeast spore population. For our kid's sake.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | January 31, 2008 3:54 PM
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Somewhere, some hardcore vegan must have taken their belief system to the logical conclusion and died from thirst and starvation. Even water has microbes who have a right to live; distilled water is out of the question because distillation is murder too.

Back in the day when 2400 baud modems ruled the earth, wasn't there a newsgroup dedicated to looking up weird statistics like this?

Posted by crk on bellevue ave | January 31, 2008 4:06 PM
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#2, all I understand there is "bakla." Bolbol mo!

Posted by dreamboatcaptain | January 31, 2008 4:43 PM
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Garbes - if you don't come home with one of those cool family supermarket t-shirts for your old pal Kelly O, well, then don't come home at all...

Posted by KELLY O | January 31, 2008 4:53 PM
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"Okay. Who contorted math to arrive at this number for their agenda? 100 person-miles per gallon maybe?"

That's what I meant. Actually, it's 100 miles per gallon per passenger - including luggage - with flight crew as dead weight on a fractional basis.

Still, the new planes get twice that in fuel efficiency.

Posted by Will in Seattle | January 31, 2008 4:56 PM

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