Re: OFF: Red Meat Stinkiness

At 14:55 16.6.2000 -0400, Mia wrote:

>What I learned in school is that humans are omnivores. We eat a
>lot of stuff. No, we can't really digest grass (unless we grow
>more stomachs and start chewing our cud) BUT there are plenty of
>plant foods that are not a problem for us to digest. Even leaves.
Like salad. :-)

>You can meet your protein needs in small portions of meat, and
>you end up pissing away a lot of the excess protein in your diet
>(if you will pardon the vulgarity).
I read the average westerner eats 2-8 times as much proteine as they
need!  (Not me.  I'm a non-vegetarian Buddhist (<shame> being a vegetarian
in a non-veg household is hard...), but I avoid excess in asserting my
omnivorous karma...



/BP

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