Letters to the Editor
Daylight365
Published Letters: 24
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Alicia Silverstone's words worth their weight in gold
[Read the article: Alicia Silverstone's naked PETA ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My 2 sons, ages 17 &18 are vegetarian athletes who compete and beat meat eaters in every category of sports they enter. When they eat meat they feel heavy and sluggish and have given up meat, chicken and other live animals for ethical as well as health reasons.
I'm also vegetarian for the same reasons and in most categories of sports and general health and well-being am doing better than people less than 1/2 my age. There's some food for thought.
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Earth to Art via PETA
[Read the article: Earth to PETA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In reference to the letter written by Art.
Some people eat no meat because and you must know this but have chosen to leave it out of your comment, they care about animal welfare as their prime reason for making that choice. Let me explain to you how this works from someone who lived on a working sheep farm (600 sheep, 250 ewes) for 10 years and knows enough horror stories about that industry that you do not care to hear for their wicked nastiness or you would have changed your mentality long ago.
Way back when, people had a small plot, a few animals. They cared for them as best they could so that they would produce offspring, thrive and become food in return. In general, these beasts were fattened and slaughtered before the coming winter when they would lose weight and not have enough reserves to make it through winter due to a lack of forage for all the farm's needs. It was a humane enough system with "healthy" meat. Today animals are treated like plastic shopping bags or worse. We all know or should the horrors they suffer and the filth they are fed. How many cows die for McDonalds DAILY and under atrocious conditions. This is UNACCEPTABLE to me and anyone with a thought in their brain. To coninue eating meat is sinful because god did not make animals to be treated as disposable diapers which the industry has done to SUPPOSEDLY have a better profit margin. Even that is false because I discovered during my farm life that Purina donates MILLIONS of Dollars to agricultural schools so the "future farmers" will learn the "right technics" to feed that PURINA food to their 1000s of future cows, calves, sheep, lambs, pigs piglets, goats, kids, chickens, chicks all these animals are now agrobusiness. They are just an industrial afterthought of a profit margin that agrobusiness wants to INCREASE yearly. That is the tip of the ugly iceberg.
My sheep were treated humanely every day. They had names like Blackfousse, Belle, KeyLime. They ate fresh grass or fresh hay and alfalfa. NEVER did Purina sell us stuff but they did try hard. They tried many tricks like it's cheaper and easier to feed those sheep this artificial bulk "sawdust" to "fatten them up". But there was no grass in their product. It was chemicals and filler. It smelled really bad. They gave us a few trial bags that no animal; sheep, horse or dog would go near given a choice. We dug a hole and buried that poison. Art, please contact me for more details if that is not convincing enough. I've lived it, have you?
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Replace Bush with Nance
[Read the article: Waterboarding is not simulated drowning -- it is drowning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Truth, courage, honesty, moral conviction, clarity of thoughts. Nance posses that which Bush does not.
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R G's LL
[Read the article: The bill for Rudy Giuliani's love life]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Smells like Mafiosa stench a mile away ( make that 3000 miles away)
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victory into a resurrection
[Read the article: How bashing Hillary backfired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article is like a breathe of fresh air to a drowning being. The press is to be feared if it harms to sell its wares. I've been a victim of slander and press lies for the buck (in my case, the euro) and it is evil. I am innocent and was portrayed as a murderer of my own son. Nothing like the press to ruin your life, reputation and children's lives. If ever you've been there, you know my pain.
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endorse the senator from New York.
[Read the article: Slamming Obama and Winfrey to praise Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was patriotic and hopeful. Well thought out and supporting my favorites. (And R Paul).
All those harsh critics that will not agree to disagree. Frightening to think that free speech and thought is no longer a right here in their USA. It still is in mine. Just be kind, polite and intelligent. Not overbearing "I am the only one who speaks the truth" types. Listen and learn from as many sources as possible. Be calm.
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Meat the Un-Necessary
[Read the article: Hey, skinny bitch!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My son is a cross-country champion runner who is vegan. That about disproves everyone who says Meat is Necessary. It is an un-necessary evil. Way back when in the days of yore, humankind was physically active 24/7/365. Now he can be and many are physically inactive 24/7... Many active people force themselves to activate to lose weight then they over=eat. Veganism or a move strongly in the direction is where we need to go to save the world and ourselves. SK makes that apparent and it is a shame that JKlausner missed the point of the book. What a thick-headed dim-wit.
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Charity reigns supreme Oprah
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with you (for once) 100%. Let's try and love most people just because they are there. Each one of us is a little "god" who must to reach full potential through loving, kindness, understanding, charity, list goes on. This is Oprah. Thank goodness for Oprah. I want to be as generous as she and I am reaching that goal in my own humble way.