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SirPeale:
--- Quote from: Stingray on April 21, 2005, 01:09:13 pm ---Thanks for bringing this up. My wife is in fact vegan and not vegetarian. She does not buy leather or eat any dairy. The only animal product that she will eat at all is eggs that we buy directly from the farm, and they are free-range chickens. They taste a lot better than the ones you can get at the grocery store anyway.
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I think I could give up eggs, but honey is another story. I love honey. I don't get why eating that is such a bad thing. Bees make too much for them to ever use it all.
shmokes:
I love the word "bees".
JackTucky:
How about Bees knees?
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Peale on April 21, 2005, 01:31:22 pm --- but the somatic cell content of milk is quite alarming.
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See, and that's the problem with PETA. "Somatic cells" and "Pus" are not synonymous. White blood cells in and off themselves do not constitute pus. PETA knows this and deliberately misrepresent the facts to further their cause. Their goal is to get people to quit using animal products. They don't care WHY people quit using them, so long as they do. If they have to tell a few somatic lies, so be it.
And I'm not entirely sure that the somatic cell content is actually alarming. Somatic cells are perfectly normal in all milk, including human breast milk. Apparently the limit is 750 million cells per liter and the average seems to be about 350-400 million but that doesn't mean much to me as I don't know what actual percentage of the milk that is and I can't find anything that tells me. At any rate, PETA knows full-well that somatic cells are not pus. There also seems to be no evidence that somatic cells are harmful.
I view it like this. Many of the things Al Qaeda hates about America are absolutely true and a person would be a fool to think any differently. But I can't endorse Al Qaeda and the tactics they use simply because they "have a point".
About the only thing I like about PETA is their frequent association with naked supermodels.
psik0tik:
Well if your going for the moral stand....bees arent tortured into producing honey