tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181477.post-77103059224990932012008-04-24T16:09:00.000-04:002008-04-24T16:09:41.752-04:002008-04-24T16:09:41.752-04:00Speaking of vegan diets, Regina Wiltshire has a <a href="http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/2008/04/solar-powered-plate.html">great post</a> about the fallacies behind the meat eating/global warming connection. Her point? It's not meat eating - it's the industrial farming complex, silly, and that includes the large scale corn, soy and wheat operations.<br /><br />Of course her post was blitzed by vegans calling her a "killer" and spouting the same old information - information that her post specifically dealt with. Guess no-one bothered to actually read it before they attacked.<br /><br />I have nothing against vegans. I just get righteously irked when people - any people - respond to something out of pure emotion, and don't provide any factual information. Calling people names isn't very nice either, but apparently <a href="http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&amp;cpsidt=1329311">low cholesterol levels can lead to aggression and violence</a>, so perhaps, in this case, they couldn't help it. (Note that it's low HDL, the "good" cholesterol, that has this effect - and saturated fat, in conjunction with a low carbohydrate diet, increases HDL. Oh, and <a href="http://www.lowcarbnewsline.com/article.asp?colid=6630">lowers triglycerides</a> to boot.)<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/2008/04/solar-powered-plate.html">Weight of the Evidence: The Solar Powered Plate</a>Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17268626403040745983noreply@blogger.com