I mean, basically I agree, but doing it all the time becomes annoying.
So today I read this story about PETA recommending that prisons implement a veggie diet so that prisoners will be more healthy when they leave. My first thought was "Holy cow, PETA... give it a rest." But then I read through the rest of the story, and it turns out that the PETA comment was inspired by the fact that one prison in Quebec let a 450 pound drug dealer out of prison several months early simply because none of their furniture or doors etc could accommodate this guy... so he was getting early release because he was obese.
Bet the Republicans and conservatives never saw this benefit of going veggie - a vegetarian diet helps you keep your prisoners in jail and your drug dealers off the streets!
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Wow . . . that is really something to think about. I agree that a lot of times PETA is too quick on the trigger and for the wrong reasons, but this might actually be a good idea. Of course, you know someone's contract would be at stake if the penal system went veg. But, you know, inasmuch as the idea of prison is supposed to be, in many cases, the idea of rehabilitation . . .
I knew someone who was a vegetarian and he said he got fat on the diet...why the assumtion that all who are vegetarian are slim
I haven't lost any weight due to being vegan, but my wife has, and if you look through the research studies, vegetarianism is a statistically significant contributor to healthy weight levels.
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