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• Monday, October 22, 2007 08:13 AM

  Will you vegans PLEASE stop spouting this thoughtless and ignorant BS

  One does not need to eat meat in order to live well

  Just because you can tolerate all the plant estrogens that come along with plant protein doesn't mean that I can tolerate that kind of diet.

  I have an estrogen-sensitive autoimmune illness that almost killed me until I figured out that plant and chemical estrogens were the triggers.

  Now I stay healthy by taking an immune suppressant that only works when I avoid plant estrogens, and the chemical ones in makeup and nail polish.

  If I eat soy, or too many nuts, or bread with flax, or take a bath with lavender bath salts -- my medicine stops working and I get very sick very quickly.

  It's interesting that my particular illness was extremely rare 20 years ago but now an increasing number of women are suffering from it.

  I believe that my illness has exploded onto the medical landscape in the last decade because so many women have been convinced that overloading their bodies with plant estrogen is a good thing.

  Will you vegans please stop spouting this ignorant BS that NOBODY needs to eat meat?

  It's ignorant and thoughtless. And the more I hear this BS coming from you people -- the less I respect your cause.

  And the more I think you people are controlling and cruel and not at all the good-hearted peaceful smart people that you like to see yourselves as.

  —Silenced Read Silenced's other letters
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