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- Subject: Re: Hitler was a vegetarian?
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 08:31:19 GMT
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- Here is how the "Hitler" argument was posited to me:
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- "You talk about how much you admire Gandhi and he was a vegetarian.
- Hitler was also a vegetarian. Does that mean you admire him?"
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- It IS well documented that Hitler was a vegetarian, at least a
- pico-ovo-lacto-cheat-a-lot vegetarian.
- I read all about it in a book called "A Vegatable Passion" (can't remember
- the author).
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- The whole argument that Hitler's vegetarianism suggests anything
- "undesirable" about vegetarianism is absurd because:
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- 1. He was a vegetarian because he had a sensitive stomach and he felt it was
- more healthy.
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- 2. Unlike Gandhi, his vegetarianism was not an integral part of his
- philosophy, inseparable from the man's teaching. Hitler did not press
- vegetarianism on the people.
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- 3. This argument seems just as valid:
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- "You talk about how much you admire Gandhi and he was heterosexual.
- Hitler was also a heterosexual. Does that mean you admire him?"
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- 4. What I've begun to notice in the question of vegeatarianism is many of the
- objections to vegetarianism seem to "invert" reality. (especially healthwise)
- As far as I can tell, factory farms are comcentration camps.
- Actually, they're even worse. Not only are the animals treated like Hitler
- treated the jews, but their meat is poisoning people everyday!
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- Eat a carrot, join the resistance!
- Vive la France!
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- --
- Leor Jacobi ,__o |"Darkness is the shore of light.
- leor@ocf.berkeley.edu _-\_<, | The truth is framed with lies...
- (*)/'(*) | When you're thin and damp and shoddy,
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| just remember you're in a body." - R.H.
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