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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
Keywords: None
Views: 1542
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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#13. To: Ninpo (#0)
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.
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.
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.
The diet of agribusiness feedlot animals everywhere.
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.
All carnivorous pets are filthy creatures. Watching them lick people faces (after they lick their own cocks, vaginas, and anus's) is hilarious, yet tragic...
Rabbits eat their poop every night. Foals eat mom's horse apples until four to six months. Calves will lick at the fresh cowpies, and baby goats and fawns gobble up the pellets. So when does the animal's behavior happen to meet with your approval?
No they don't. They excrete a certain kind of poop that they eat, because their food is not all the way digested. It is sort of like a cow who chews their food a lot to break it down. Rabbits also don't eat meat. Sorry. It is also a logical fallacy to assume that rabbits are dirty animals when they eat their own feces when they are not carnivores, which you seem to think are clean. So clean, they have shorter AI tracts to get rid of their waste before it putridify's.
I raise rabbits so don't tell me what they do and don't do. They eat CECAL matter which is poop, every night. They will also eat newborn aand sometimes days old litters and if in a communal situation will destroy and eat other doe's litters. Plus bucks will eat rival's ears and have been known to munch on each other's testicles.
Are they "domesticated" rabbits? Did you know that rabbits eat different kinds of fecal matter? What is "cecal" matter and does it matter if you use ALL CAPS to try to prove your point (which is moot)?
Domestic rabbits. You know...... most rabbit breeders would love to be able to raise rabbits in a non cage situation. The biggest problem is the rabbits themselves who are very territorial and demand a private space. They are not chickens. Also if you don't know what a CECUM is why don't you just google it? You also have one.
Also if you don't know what a CECUM is why don't you just google it? You also have one. A) You mean rabbits don't like to be caged? Shocking B) There is no such term as "CECAL" matter. I googled it. In ALL CAPS too.
Rabbit live in burrows, you know what those are don't you? Long narrow restrictive tunnels underground which allow for privacy and protection from other rabbits. Cages accomplish the same thing. I'm sorry you can't google very well but here's an excerpt from http://HouseRabbit.org about cecal material. (GIT stand for Gastro Intestinal Tract) I didn't post the illustration. "Let's review the GIT of the rabbit to look at all the parts (see figure, right). The stomach holds the food and essentially sterilizes it with a pH of 1 to 2. The food then moves out through the small intestine where nutrients are absorbed into the body. At the junction of the small intestine and the large intestine is a large blind sac called the cecum. This is where the digestible fiber and other portions of the diet that need to be fermented are deposited. A variety of microorganisms break down this material in the cecum and convert it into nutrients such as fatty acids, amino acids and vitamins. (Please note that Lactobacillus or Acidophillus are not significant microorganisms in a rabbit's cecum). The nutrient-rich material is then excreted in the form of cecotropes (some people call these "night feces") which are eaten directly from the anus by the rabbit and redigested." Do you ever question why your PETA friends lie to you about animal behavior?
So, what is your point?
So, what is your point? With your superior cognitive skills fueled by your all veggie diet, certainly you can decipher what I am getting at.
I didn't link to anything PETA, so your point is more/less moot. Sorry.
#65. To: Ninpo (#64)
Sorry, but since you were repeating the PETA talking points disinfo? Now aren't you happy that you actually did learn something new about rabbits? They are part time carnivores as are all mammal mothers who eat placentas after giving birth. Ever see a mare or a cow eat one?
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest(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.
#14. To: FormerLurker (#13)
#15. To: Ninpo (#14)
#16. To: echo5sierra (#15)
Tell me, do you believe in evolution?
#17. To: Ninpo (#16)
#32. To: X-15 (#17)
#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.
#39. To: mininggold, Rupert_Pupkin (#36)
fresh FECAL material at some point.
#48. To: Ninpo (#39)
The diet of agribusiness feedlot animals everywhere
#52. To: mininggold (#48)
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.
#53. To: Ninpo (#52)
All carnivorous pets are filthy creatures.
#54. To: mininggold (#53)
Rabbits eat their poop every night.
#55. To: Ninpo (#54)
Rabbits also don't eat meat. Sorry. It is also a logical fallacy to assume that rabbits are dirty animals when they eat their own feces when they are not carnivores, which you seem to think are clean. So clean, they have shorter AI tracts to get rid of their waste before it putridify's.
#56. To: mininggold (#55)
I raise rabbits so don't tell me what they do and don't do. They eat CECAL matter which is poop, every night.
#57. To: Ninpo (#56)
#58. To: mininggold (#57)
The biggest problem is the rabbits themselves who are very territorial and demand a private space. They are not chickens.
#59. To: Ninpo (#58)
#62. To: mininggold (#59)
Do you ever question why your PETA friends lie to you about animal behavior?
#63. To: Ninpo (#62)
MG/Do you ever question why your PETA friends lie to you about animal behavior?
#64. To: mininggold (#63)
With your superior cognitive skills fueled by your all veggie diet, certainly you can decipher what I am getting at.
Replies to Comment # 64. I didn't link to anything PETA, so your point is more/less moot.
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