Re: Hypocrisy part deux

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The list of what's wrong with me is too long to list I am afraid.
> However on the topic of vegan,  I have always though of a vegan as more or
> less of a pretentious BS artist.
> In a technical sense it is not possible to be a vegan. If you've ever
taken
> a course in biology you know that there is the plant kingdom and the
animal
> kingdom and everything fits into one or the other, (save some
> hyper-technical questions about certain water molds etc.). So vegan equals
> no animal kingdom ingestion.
> It is not possible to avoid ingesting the items in the animal kingdom. The
> normal flora and fauna in your mouth means one swallow of your own saliva
> and your not a vegan anymore. If you examine nearly any vegetable using
> magnification you'll notice an abundance of single cell and multi-cell
> organisms that are clearly in the animal kingdom, in addition to that
there
> are many insect larva are quite large enough to be visible to the naked
eye,
> if you know what you're looking at, especially if they're grown
> "organically". So when you eat your veggies, down goes the fillet of plant
> parasite too along with it. I have mentioned this to a few feather headed
> self described "vegans" and they say as long as they don't know about it
> it's okay. Huh? Maybe if I put it like Andrew Dice Clay did when he
> mentioned something about sucking?

Maybe if you had a few juicy Porter House steaks you'd then have an opinion
about something for a change