Posted on 06/21/2014 2:32:12 PM PDT by JimSEA
Did you know that when you drink water, you are not really being vegetarian?
I didn't either. It turns out that when you drink water, it could have microbes and other small stuff - well, I knew that part. What I did not know is that viruses and bacteria and such were considered animals to vegetarians. So even if you purify water by boiling it and killing the germs, you are still drinking dead animals.
What to do for truly ethical water drinkers? Now you have the solution, the Prestige Lifestraw.
I guess this is real - it's hard to say, I assume most medicinal and health products originating in Asia were created on a dare - but the Prestige LifeStraw says not only will it kill the animals in water, like bacteria, protozoan cysts and viruses, it will then remove them too. No more animals carcasses!
(Excerpt) Read more at science20.com ...
Even I get good, clean water if I really want it.
Not hot water, of course... but running water.
/johnny
People still don’t really understand what a sterile environment does to the human immune system.
Plants scream when you cut or cook them...ALIVE.
I don’t know how vegans live with themselves.
Soulless barbarians who devour their helpless prey, alive.
http://www.mnn.com/home-blog/guest-columnist/blogs/the-case-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-plants
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/video/titles/12151/do-plants-respond-to-pain
The cattle get that stuff out of the waterhole; we get the good stuff.
Once I figured out I didn't have to impress anyone anymore, things got easier, but I didn't quit sharing the tank....
I figure, on balance, I've killed and added about the same amount of critters to the biome of dirt. Or terra, or earth.... whatever you want to call it.
/johnny
I’ll have a beer with you!
Sounds a good one to keep handy.
So it’s OK to murder these precious tiny animals, it’s just not OK to consume them.
Now I understand.
Woof.
An Ethical Carnivore is one that eats what she kills
An Ethical Vegetarian is one that doesn't eat what he kills
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