Enjoy digesting those rabbits!

It's totally a FACT!

Vegetables is sloowwwww....

Carnivore diets do cause cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and strokes though, and you probably have several loved ones who died from the tradition of meat eating, but whatevs, right? Killing things is funneee!

I'm stocking up on Hormel Vegetarian Chili and Vodka. 1 Gallon per person per day.

So, you would have to live in a log cabin far from any humans AND birds.

You're just as much at risk as the rest of us.

Don't believe me? Ask UW's Epidemiologists.

Maybe it should be Person-transmitted Bird Flu. Or something.

Whatever you choose to eat, there's no reason to get evangelical about it. Vegetarianism is not a religion.

Here's the very reasonable Ira Glass on how he made his choice:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J1TcL0wZ-pM

You won't get bird flu from properly COOKED chicken. You WILL, however, get bird flu when it starts spreading human-to-human, in which case those with access to a vaccine and a healthy immune systems will be the survivors.

When it comes to preparing for the apocalypse, you'd do best to have the broadest dietary options possible.

Not in my family. Whatever serious coronary problems we've had were congenital - and my meat-eating, heart-disease-having grandfather still hit 93 before kicking off. One meat-eating grandma is now 91, another (the one with the crock of bacon grease setting on the stove-top) is a robust 87.

Both parents, both meat-eaters - still very much alive, even my overweight, ex-smoker pop with the two multiple bypasses under his belt (French fries are his major downfall - a vegetable, if I recall correctly), but even he's still going strong, thanks to a change of locale (living at 7,000 feet can be hard on an old person's ticker).

And of course, I don't have to worry about deficiencies of important vitamins and amino acids - which only occur naturally in animal products. So, keep popping your one-a-days stick-boy, you'll need 'em.

And just for the record, killing things isn't funneee so much as - yummmmiiieee!

Besides, if TFSM HADN'T wanted us to eat animals, why did he give us incisors, small stomachs, and a loooong small intestine?

Long small intestines are better suited for digesting plant matter. Short small intestines are better suited for digesting meat.

And what are you on about claiming that only animal products have "naturally occurring" vitamins and amino acids? Wrong. Dead wrong.

Doesn't everyone is Seattle look like that?

It's called the "Seattle Tan."