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Title: Feeding Kids Meat Is Still Child Abuse
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PETA
URL Source: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/09/child_abuse.php
Published: Sep 11, 2008
Author: PETA
Post Date: 2008-09-11 17:32:32 by Ninpo
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Views: 1479
Comments: 70
he story of a 15 year old boy in Lubbock, Texas in need of a liver transplant because of health complications relating to obesity is the latest case highlighting the need for parents to step up and teach their children healthy eating habits. We believe that parents have a responsibility to teach their children healthy eating habits. Raising your children on a meat-based diet that might lead them to the hospital or an early grave is child abuse, plain and simple. And that’s exactly the message on PETA’s new billboard we’re trying to run in Lubbock, Texas. The boy’s diet consisted of mostly burgers and pizza which (duh!) resulted in a fatty liver. This is not a health problem a child should ever have to face, but unfortunately, he’s not the only one. It is becoming a sickening sign of the adolescent obesity epidemic that some adolescents are requiring liver transplants due to their poor diets rich in fats. To help spotlight that vegetarianism is a key to overcoming obesity in children and parents’ responsibility in getting this message to their children, PETA’s billboard with the tagline, "Feeding kids meat is child abuse - Fight the fat - GoVeg.com." will hopefully be hitting Lubbock shortly. childabuse.JPG Many children who are fed a diet of saturated fat- and cholesterol-laden burgers, nuggets, and hot dogs show symptoms of heart disease by the time they reach first grade. Parents don’t need to be told that feeding their children such poor diets may be slowly killing them, its common sense. But they’re feeding it to them anyway. Child abuse. Plain and simple. Posted by Carrie Ann Harris
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#10. To: X-15 (#4)
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First, I bet he ate more than a just one double cheese burger at a time, or just a couple of slices of pizza. For two, you DO need to eat fruits and vegetables for a balanced diet in ADDITION to meat and dairy products. For three, how many bags of chips and 2 liter bottles of Coke did he wash the burgers down with, and how many twinkies, cup cakes, and boxes of ice cream did he eat for dessert and "snacks"? What about all the other "snack food" crap they market to kids these days, loaded with artificial ingredients and corn syrup?
So, like, what is the point of your rant?
The point, oh nature lover, is that it wasn't the meat itself that made him fat, it was the breading, the dough surrounding the meat, and all the junk food he no doubt ate along with the meat. Tell me, do you believe in evolution? If so, you should eat meat. Carnivorous animals eat meat, are you going to make your average Yellowstone wolf you no doubt idolize eat grass and carrots? If we are nothing more than animals, we should behave as other forward eye animals and eat meat. Survival of the fittest!! We are the top of the food chain.
No, I don't believe in faith based theories.
You have incisors. If you don't believe me, ask your dentist. How do you reconcile that with your no-meat mantra?? Sure, we have molars, that just makes us omnivores, like grizzly bears. I haven't eaten meat in 9 years. I have not been sick but 4 times in 9 years. You figure it out.
If you were really committed to the "cause", you'd get your ass down to the dentist and tell him to extract your incisors. Will you swear before everybody here at 4um to do this??
Ok forget the evolution. Should we make carnivores like tigers and lions eat vegetables exclusively?
Thirty percent of what I eat is meat and I haven't had a cold or the flu in 30 years.
Freeper: I read, but do not understand, write, but make no sense, think, but nothing happens.
Not always. Sometimes it is mercy to put them out of their misery. Besides, my cat demands a meat diet. He kills animals all the time when he goes out. Do you dare call that "animal abuse"?
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
I have not been sick but 4 times in 9 years. You figure it out. Wow... That's some pretty astute logic... I've probably eaten meat every day since I was born, and the sun rose on every one of those days. If I stopped eating meat, you would freeze to death...
Government blows and that which governs least blows least...
Are you trying to say you are a former faggot that doesn't have aids?
Yup, right after we genetically engineer vegetables to provide all of the amino acid precursors needed... :-)
Government blows and that which governs least blows least...
The meat of a migrating waterfowl is the leanest meat on earth. That's why you have to prepare most duck dishes with a sauce, the meat has no juices of it's own to cook in......Damn, I'm gonna have to go check the freezer.
Bullshit. Somehow the human race managed to survive as omnivores for the last 100,000 years or so. What happened in the last 50 to change all that?
Nice pics. It is great for kids to learn to hunt and provide for themselves. I once saw some freaks car. It said meat is murder. What an idiot. I always wanted to go throw a hamburger pattie and smash it on the window.
Giving your kids nothing but vegetables is dangerous to their health. Parents who do that should have their kids taken away. Are you a child abuser? If you have kids and you push this "I watched animals on TV and they talk and are just like people" crap you should. You sound like the freaks that were protesting KFC a few months ago. They prompted me to turn around and get some KFC. Then I went and ate it in front of the little assholes. Meat it's whats for dinner.
Why are you for starving kids? NEW YORK — A vegan couple in New York City were busted for starving their baby daughter — by denying her breast milk and formula, feeding her only nuts, fruits and vegetables, and allegedly failing to get her medical help for severe malnutrition. Joseph and Silva Swinton, both 31, were arrested Friday and charged with reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child for failing to properly feed and care for their baby, Ice. The Swintons, who are being held in lieu of $20,000 bail, face up to seven years in prison if convicted. Sixteen-month-old Ice Swinton weighed only 10 pounds, looked like a 2- or 3-month-old and was half the normal weight of a child her age when authorities discovered her close to death last November. EMS workers rushed Ice to from her Queens home to Long Island Jewish Hospital, where doctors diagnosed her with developmental problems, a distended abdomen, fractured bones, a vitamin deficiency called rickets and a lung disorder — all caused by malnutrition, authorities said. The Swintons, who say they approach veganism as a religion, fed the child a diet of "ground nuts, fresh-squeezed fruit juices, herbal tea, beans, cod liver oil and flax seed oil," a complaint said. Even when doctors told the couple their baby was on the brink of death in November, both parents insisted "there was nothing wrong" and were resistant to treatment, the complaint said. After a four-month hospital stay, the New York City Administration for Children's Services placed the baby in a foster home. Several months on a healthy diet have helped the 20-month-old to achieve the functions of a 10- to 12-month-old baby, but the child is still struggling, authorities said. Warren Silverman, a lawyer representing the mother, questioned why there was such a long delay to file charges. "If Long Island Jewish Hospital at that time thought that something was amiss, why wasn't something done right away?" he asked. The Swintons have been allowed supervised visits with their daughter — but ACS has asked that a judge order them stopped after the father said he thought the child was getting "chubby," sources said. Neighbor Toyin Savage said she was "shocked." Another neighbor said she saw the baby recently. "I asked how old she was and they said, 'Almost a year.' She looked very small. They said she was a vegetarian — I didn't think about it at the time." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,51494,00.html
The thing I hate most about you vegan militants is that you just live and let live. No meat eater or hunter will ever try to force you to eat meat or go hunting. Meanwhile, you vegan nuts want to shove your lifestyle down other people's throats. If you had your way, you would use the force of law to make other people to eat what you want them to eat, which is just as repellant as anybody who wants to force people to think, worship, or not worship in a particular way. If you want to live on tofu and mashed yeast, have at it. Live on a diet of sawdust for all I care, it's your life. Just learn to mind your own business when you do it. If you have a hang-up about eating meat and want to stop others from doing so, you aren't any different than religious nuts with sexual hang- ups who want to run other people's sex lives for them. You guys are just religious nuts with a different obsession.
You should also ask Team Tofu why we have such short small intestines and a reduced appendix. Vegetarian monkeys have a well-developed appendix and long intestines, while we (just like our closest relatives, the omnivorous chimps) have an appendix vestige and short intestines.
Yes, there's no question that we're equipped to eat meat. In the long run, vegetarians have to take protein supplements, which is the cowards way of getting around eating meat.
Most herbivores such as cows, goats, sheep are ruminants with a 4 part stomach or have digestive systems like rabbits that actually eat their cecal material that has been bacterially changed to be higher in protein and certain vitamins. Horses don't have either, intead they have intestines so long that they have become prone to all kinds of digestive and blockage problems.
Spread the news. You've discovered a new lifestyle fad for the vegans.
And almost all animal babies eat Momma's fresh FECAL material at some point. Full of Vits, enzymes and good bacteria.
If you want to live on tofu and mashed yeast, have at it. Live on a diet of sawdust for all I care, it's your life. Just learn to mind your own business when you do it. If you have a hang-up about eating meat and want to stop others from doing so, you aren't any different than religious nuts with sexual hang- ups who want to run other people's sex lives for them. You guys are just religious nuts with a different obsession. A) Your first sentence along with the second are silly logical fallacies B) I don't eat yeast and tofu C) Nor sawdust D) I don't have to subsidize your murder E) People who hunt animals and attack those who condemn it, how are you not a satanic bloodwoshiping cult?
We have long intestines dumbfuck. The small intestine is what, 21 feet? Carnivores have shorter intestines. The point is, humans can eat both meat and vegan diets. However, meat diets shorten lifespan and contribute to destructive socieites in the long term. Sorry.
The diet of agribusiness feedlot animals everywhere.
My choice of meals has nothing to do with my religion. If I'm in a cult I want it to be known as the cult of Backstrap.
I learned long ago never to argue with drunks or lunatics. I don't know about your drinking habits, but the second one fits you to a T. Like I said before, you militant vegans who want to tell people what to eat are no different from Bible thumpers who want to control people's sex lives. So go run along to your PETA meeting and bugger off.
That is fact: the human body is a meat eating machine. God--or something-- designed us that way.
AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/NAACP/FEDERAL RESERVE/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA & HOLLYWOOD: Oh, those Islamofascists.
I love animals. They're delicious.
AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/NAACP/FEDERAL RESERVE/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA & HOLLYWOOD: Oh, those Islamofascists.
If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Ham and swiss on rye, please. Toss some cold slaw in there and I'm in hog heaven.
So, you are telling me A) the government does not subsidize meat eating? or B) Killing animals when you don't have to live off of them in this enlightened society is not satanic, or at the least lower dimensional? Do I have this correct?
You remind me of my eight year old nephew. He runs around trying to impress people with big words that he's just heard, and always uses them incorrectly. What does it mean for a person to be "lower dimensional?" Does he live in flatland, or on a line? You're an empty-headed flake like every in your face vegan I've ever met, and obviously too stupid to realize that your arguments come down to nothing more than an emotional "All those animals are so cute, you have no right to kill them?" You're also too stupid to realize that all of your shrieking on this website isn't exactly converting anyone to your Church of Vegan. In the meantime, here's a piece of advice on how you can really help the animals. Just by living in a house, eating food, and driving a car you're taking away precious resources from animals. So why don't you PETA loons set an example to the rest of us by committing mass suicide? Maybe more will follow your enlightened example! Have at it!
Soooo, do as I do and raise your own. All animals intentionally eat some fecal matter throughout their lifetimes (including human babies if mom allows it) as a way of supplementing their diets. Dogs DO love to raid those kitty litter trays.
It's the curse of Walt Disney.
You're a lightweight flake like every in your face vegan I've ever met, and obviously too stupid to realize that your arguments come down to nothing more than an emotional "All those animals are so cute, you have no right to kill them?" You're also too stupid to realize that all of your shrieking on this website isn't exactly converting anyone to your Church of Vegan. In the meantime, here's a piece of advice on how you can really help the animals. Just by living in a house, eating food, and driving a car you're taking away precious resources from animals. So why don't you PETA loons set an example to the rest of us by committing mass suicide? Maybe more will follow your enlightened example! Have at it! A) Dimensional Primer for the uninitiated http://www.zakairan.com/ZaKaiRansArticlesBooks/Dimensions%204th.htm B) You're a lightweight flake,and obviously too stupid This is ad hominem Web definitions for Ad Hominem In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent’s ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning “against the man.” kmhs.typepad.com/parrott_ap_english_langua/files/rhetorical_terms.doc - Definition in context An ad hominem is a logical fallacy.
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#11. To: farmfriend (#10)
#12. To: farmfriend (#10)
-Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#13. To: Ninpo (#0)
(T)he story of a 15 year old boy in Lubbock,Texas in need of a liver transplant because of health complications relating to obesity is the latest case highlighting the need for parents to step up and teach their children healthy eating habits.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
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#15. To: Ninpo (#14)
#16. To: echo5sierra (#15)
Tell me, do you believe in evolution?
#17. To: Ninpo (#16)
-Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#18. To: X-15 (#17)
#19. To: Ninpo, All (#18)
-Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#20. To: Ninpo (#16)
#21. To: Ninpo (#18)
I have not been sick but 4 times in 9 years.
#22. To: Ninpo (#5)
Killing animals is abuse.
#23. To: Ninpo (#18)
I haven't eaten meat in 9 years.
#24. To: Ninpo (#18)
I haven't eaten meat in 9 years.
#25. To: echo5sierra (#20)
Should we make carnivores like tigers and lions eat vegetables exclusively?
#26. To: X-15 (#4)
Doctors will tell you to eat all the wild game you want: venison, elk, fish, fowl, it's ALL good for you.
#27. To: Ninpo (#5)
Feeding them to your children is child abuse.
#28. To: X-15 (#4)
#29. To: Ninpo (#5)
Killing animals is abuse. Feeding them to your children is child abuse.
#30. To: Ninpo (#18)
#31. To: Ninpo (#0)
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#32. To: X-15 (#17)
#33. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#32)
-Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#34. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#32)
You should also ask Team Tofu why we have such short small intestines and a reduced appendix. Vegetarian monkeys have a well-developed appendix and long intestines, while we (just like our closest relatives, the omnivorous chimps) have an appendix vestige and short intestines.
#35. To: mininggold (#34)
or have digestive systems like rabbits that actually eat their cecal material
#36. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#35)
Spread the news. You've discovered a new lifestyle fad for the vegans.
#37. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#31)
The thing I hate most about you vegan militants is that you just live and let live. No meat eater or hunter will ever try to force you to eat meat or go hunting. you would use the force of law to make other people to eat what you want them to eat, which is just as repellant as anybody who wants to force people to think, worship, or not worship in a particular way.
#38. To: Rupert_Pupkin, Rupert_Pupkin (#32)
You should also ask Team Tofu why we have such short small intestines and a reduced appendix.
#39. To: mininggold, Rupert_Pupkin (#36)
fresh FECAL material at some point.
#40. To: Ninpo (#37)
People who hunt animals and attack those who condemn it, how are you not a satanic blood worshiping cult?
#41. To: Ninpo (#37)
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D) I don't have to subsidize your murder E) People who hunt animals and attack those who condemn it, how are you not a satanic bloodwoshiping cult?
#42. To: Turtle (#1)
We have eyes that point forward. That means we are meat-eating predators.
#43. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#32)
#44. To: wbales (#43)
I love animals. They're delicious.
#45. To: wbales (#43)
#46. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#41)
#47. To: Ninpo (#46)
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Killing animals when you don't have to live off of them in this enlightened society is not satanic, or at the least lower dimensional?
#48. To: Ninpo (#39)
The diet of agribusiness feedlot animals everywhere
#49. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#47)
#50. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#47)
You remind me of my eight year old nephew. He runs around trying to impress people with big words that he's just heard, and always uses them incorrectly. What does it mean for a person to be "lower dimensional?" Does he live in flatland, or on a line?
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