Actually for those of you who say we have eaten meat for thousands of years consider this...Many Buddhists and other culture have been vegetarian for centuries...Here's a quick reference I found online that puts a vegetarian diet in a historical context..."It may surprise many people to hear that our early ancestors lived on a semivegetarian diet for several million years. Some anthropologists have fostered the stereotype of "man the hunter," but studies of contemporary "hunter-gatherers" suggest that early humans lived primarily on a diet of plant foods...vegetarianism was practices by the ancient Greeks. Pythagoras and Porphyry were the best-known practicing vegetarians, but the list of those who advocated a vegetarian diet includes Diogenes, Plato, Epicurus, and Plutarch. The Greeks favored vegetarianism for a variety of reasons. Pythagoras and his followers believed that animals as well as humans have souls, and that after death, an animal may be reincarnated as a human and vice versa. According to this view, animals should not be killed and eaten because all souls have equal worth."

I myself had heard this many times that early humans and natives were first and foremost gatherers (as opposed to hunters) I don't eat meat myself for ethical, health and environmental reason...But as one reader pointed out earlier I have noticed a general unwillingness to confront the difficult issue of how we treat our animals and what it is doing to our health and our planet and even an unwillingness to consider the simple idea of just eating LESS meat and more veggies. Surely this would make perfect sense in addition to being highly beneficial for the many Americans who are now facing poorer health, high rates of heart disease, cancer and obesity. I too have heard many illogical arguments that just don't hold up...it definitely long overdue that we have an honest look at this issue.

As a previous poster pointed out breast feeding is protected by law. Why should I have to cover my breasts because some perv and sexualizes this natural act. They are there for a reason! No one tell those cows on the side of the milk carton with their utters to go cover up. Actually I'm from NYC and here in NYC there was a lawsuit a little while back, and the lawsuit basically was about how come it's "okay" for a man to walk around the park with his shirt off and not okay for a woman, and isn't that setting a separate standard if the woman would get arrested and a man wouldn't (different laws for men and women = inequality) And you know what?! The woman won the lawsuit...and so if a women wants to she can take her shirt off and not have to worry about being arrested for public indecency just because some man gets uncomfortable about it. What is the difference between a man's chest and a women's chest anyways (aside that women produce milk for babies like all mammals do)? Frankly I've seen some men with bigger boobs than some women...and men have nipples too. So what's the big deal? I don't see the difference other than certain men want to sexual and objectify women so much that they think it appropriate to have entirely different set of standards. I'm not comparing a breastfeeding mom to people dancing around naked...but the point is this: live and let live...breastfeeding is a part of life, natural, healthy and necessary. period. If you don't buy that well then, it's protected by law. So just grow up already and give the moms a freakin' break.