posted November 22, 2008 12:07 AM         

While he was not. The fact is, he never was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_hitler#Health

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After the early 1930s, Hitler generally followed a vegetarian diet, although he ate meat on occasion.

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As long as Hitler did eat meat on occasion, that makes him a meat eater, a non-vegetarian. The "Hitler was a vegetarian" myth is hereby invalid.

http://www.peta.org/about/faq.asp

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“Wasn’t Hitler in favor of animal rights?”
Although the Nazis claimed to pass an anti-vivisection bill, they did not. In fact, they were required by law to perform experiments on animals before carrying them out on humans. Experiments on humans did not replace animal experiments; on the contrary, animal experiments made them possible. In The Dark Face of Science, John Vyvyan summed it up correctly, “The experiments made on prisoners were many and diverse, but they had one thing in common: All were in continuation of, or complementary to experiments on animals. In every instance, this antecedent scientific literature is mentioned in the evidence; and at Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps, human and animal experiments were carried out simultaneously as parts of a single programme.”

However, even if this weren’t the case, the merits of an idea cannot be determined by the character of its proponents. If Hitler believed in evolution, would that mean that we should not believe in evolution? What if Gandhi also believed in evolution? How would we reconcile the two? An idea must be judged on its own merits.

For more information on this topic, we recommend the book Hitler: Neither Vegetarian nor Animal Lover by Rynn Berry, available here.

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0962616966/qid%3D1087 934184/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-7661546-4224622

"HITLER: NEITHER VEGETARIAN NOR ANIMAL LOVER"- BY RYNN BERRY

Available at Amazon.com

Hopefully more and more people will be properly informed that Adolf Hitler was never a vegetarian. Therefore, when engaging in debates on vegetarianism, they would no longer use Hitler as an example of a "non-spiritual, cruel vegetarian", because he was NOT even a vegetarian!

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