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Laura Miller has written an interesting and thoughtful review, however has failed to ask the obvious question. Was the author a shill for the meat marketing corporations? Just kidding, but it certainly sounds like it. Don't eat meat and you too can be crazy as a coot! I liked Laura's point about morality being bound to its time and place. At this time in the world many people regard with horror the eating of rodents but at many times and places rat is/was considered a staple if not a delicacy.
I don't eat meat. I have my own reasons. Other people who don't eat meat have theirs which may well be vastly different from mine. To think of all non meat eaters as a heterogenious group called vegitarians and that we share a common belief system is as foolish as believing all Christians are basically the same and share a common dogma.
A discussion of the history of meat eating versus non-meat eating is interesting but has very little relevance as to wheather a meat free diet is personally /globally advantageous in 2007.
David Edler
