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From: Taipei, Taiwan
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posted February 20, 2004 02:16 AM         

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I assume that by now you people are already aware of the fact that meat contains heavy amounts of anti-biotics and various types of hormone, owing to the method used for factory farming. Do you fancy the idea of eating anti-biotics and hormone everyday?

So some of you think that fish are healthier than red meat and fowl. WRONG. Thanks to pollution, all the world's ocean have been contaminated with toxic chemicals and POPs (persistent organic pollutants) which are now part of many food chains. In particular, mercury is found in many fishes. Mercury is a poison known to affect the kidneys and central nervous systems, can seriously harm the health of pregnant or breastfeeding women (as well as the rest of us) and is associated with severe heart dis-eases and infertility. How can you poison your own body for another five years with such lethal chemicals? You've got to quit flesh NOW. Now or too late.

What you do unto animals and the environment, you do unto yourself.

(The above has been largely based on 'veggiehealth', Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation, the health charity, Bristol,
England, UK)

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posted February 20, 2004 02:26 AM         

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Combine that info. with the chicken flu virus and Mad Cow disease in Washington state and you might want to think twice about what you are eating.

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posted February 20, 2004 03:30 AM         

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Yes, and thank god for the FDA warning to women so that when kids end up with autism, we can blame it on Mommy instead of vaccines.

Yes, thats sarcasm, sorry.....I am feeling disgusted by how we are polluting the Earth, to the point of where we can't eat ANYTHING.

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posted February 20, 2004 08:35 PM         

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That is very stressful Dana, since I have become a vegetarian, including those reasons, I still thought fish ok to eat, I was wrong, makes me sick to know what we are eating. Its very discusting, and alot of people are ignorant of what they are really eating, meat and fish comes neatly packaged from you meat section in your supermarket, presented lovely with different flavors--looks so harmless, yet in reality its making everyone sick.

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posted March 10, 2004 12:02 PM         

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Well sunchild if it's not farm-raised then it's not loaded with this stuff. I mean, c'mon now.

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posted March 10, 2004 12:15 PM         

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There are vitamins that you can take to get rid of the mercury in your body. But if you want good fish or red meat, then grow it yourself. Then you know what the animals are eating.

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posted March 10, 2004 12:32 PM         

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Welcome!

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posted March 11, 2004 02:15 PM         

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Mercury is my sun ruler...I'm a gemini

*goes off to eat "fishes"*

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posted March 11, 2004 04:13 PM         

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posted March 12, 2004 06:24 AM         

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Why eating meat and fish when you can live healthily on a balanced plant-based diet? Why eating creatures which are made of flesh, blood and bones (I know, I know, plants can feel and breathe too)?

And mercury is not to be joked about.

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posted March 12, 2004 02:29 PM         

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Why can't mercury be joked about?

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