COMMENTARY
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To eat or not to eat, meat is the questio
Meat-eating causes health
issues for humans and animals
Hilliary Ferguson
T he C lackamas P rint
Somewheré along the journey from pre
civilized society to booming Western civiliza
tion, we have lost our respect for the other
inhabitants of this world; we have become
egocentric, believing that everything else that
exists is merely for our use— a. horrifying
Judeo-Christian tradition.
It’s not so much the actual meat-eating
that has lured so many into vegetarianism; it’s
the double-standard of Americans that
human lives are inherently more important
than animals. This simply isn’t true. From a
religious standpoint, every living thing has
come from one creator—simply because we
are able dominate the land does not mean we
should.
Take this into consideration: if, say, a
cougar came to Oregon City (land that first
belonged to wildlife) 'and killed a person, that
cougar would either be killed or tracked down
and relocated with the painful use of tran
quilizers. Why shouldn’t the cougar be able to
eat people, if humans, are able to eat every
thing else? Is this the ci jcle of life or the totem
pole of life, wherein humans are entitled to
consume everything? The cougar, which kills
out of instinct and hunger, is punished—but
the people who go to the grocery store to get
steak are rewarded with a 15 percent discount
It’s a sick double standard.
Additionally, people who decide to eat
meat should go and kill it themselves. What
sort of respect can one have for already
slaughtered and shrink-wrapped meat? News
flash—méat doesn’t just magically come
ground and packaged. The conditions that
these animals live in are grotesque at best.
Then, their lives are ended in the most vicious
ways possible. Imagine watching a friend hav
ing his or her throat slashed before bleeding
to death. Imagine a child being born and
immediately removed from its parents to be
thrust into a small cage until its untimely and
violent death.
Let’s take it back to the beginning. Eating
meat is not required for a healthy lifestyle.
Thousands of people lead perfectly healthy
and happy lives without the meat. In fact,
after not eating meat for years, the human
body becomes incapable of digesting the
stuff. The human body will reject meat—it
won’t reject without the meat
Similarly, food is just as
delicious
without
meat
in
it.
M o re over,
there are soy
substitutes
which are
just
<as
tasty, but
without
t h e
blood-
shed. If
the cook
is good, it
won’t
make any
difference
whether
meat
is
included. Meat
eating is a form of
frivolity of which-
Americans are all too
accustomed. If humans were
made to hunt their own meat, perhaps
they would learn to respect the animals’ sacri
fice. The deaths of thousands of animals a
year are taken for granted by millions around
the world. Perhaps the plain problem is
America’s lack of respect for life in general.
Just look at Iraq.
Lives of unintelligent anime
small price to pay for food
Cory Price
Co E ditor - in -C hief
The vegetarians of this world are lost
and misguided, and frankly, they are miss
ing out on one of the greatest things since
string cheese. Beef-—it’s what’s for dinner.
First off, what is a vegetarian? There
are so many different kinds of vegetarians,
vegan to chicken-atarians.
There is no clear definition
of the varieties. One
person may be
protesting
against
h u ma ne
treatments;
others
base their
decision
on
the
“ c u t e -
ness” of
the ani-
m a 1 .
Bottom
line: there
glF is no right or
r wrong defini-
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Unlike vege
tarians, carnivores
know who they are.' A
person either eats meat
or doesn’t. No silly questions,
because it is black and white. The
health benefit of beef is humongoUs; beef
contains essential vitamins and nutrients
that a person doesn’t get on a meatless
diet.
One such element is called Conjugated
Linoleic Acid (CLA). CLA has been
Not all inventions are as useful
as their creators like to think
A
purposes could be exploited by similar gadgets,
such as:
♦The WC Checkout— A shopping cart
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shaped Sensor attached to the side of super
market express line that berates any self-impor
A German inventor recently fashioned a tant customer who tries to purchase more than
device so completely and utterly needless that his allotted twelve items as if those waiting
the David Hasselhoff-loving German public behind him won’t mind.
♦The WC Hang-It-Up— A device wired to
has responded with—that’s right—an insatiate
k bullhorn, mounted to the driver’s side front
desire to purchase it.
Alex Benkhardt, who I’m musing was dhor, that monitors surrounding vehicles, tar
raised with at least 10 older sistas, invented get) any driver on a cell phone—who subse
what he dubbed the “WC Ghost,” an apparatus quently weaves in and out of freeway lanes at
that rests under the rim of a toilet seat and 45 iniles per hour—and blasts Hanson’s
scolds men who choose to tend ro their busi “Mmmbop” at unnecessary decibel levels in her
ness whilst standing. According tfr Reuters,'if direction (Editors’ note: We’re not sure what
the toilet seat is lifted, a stern female voice this results in exacdy, but we’re convinced it’s
worthy punishment).
interjects with:
♦The WC Cassinator—A contraption worn
“Hello, what are you up to >then? Put the seat
back down right away. You are definitfily not to by men that, when any woman, regardless of her
pee standing up ... you will.make a righj'mess...” actual size, complains about her weight (or “fat”
,9r>ai&Uthcr slang for “chub”), immediately sends
No. 1 am not making this-Up.
It was once believed that ihe typical boufL waves to her brain, flooding it with pictures of
geois had no interest in a product so entirely Mama Cass, thus causing some sort of some-
useless as the one Benkhardt has fostered, but MtongTOtyPth^JMgfcur. no doubt altering the
that outdated and obviously untested theory cranially irivaded womans self-image (if not, at
has been put to rest in recent years, thanks to least allowing tor the advantageously equipped
the advent of commodities such as -reality tele- male ro escape before she recovers).
possibilities are without bounds and
vision, green ketchup, the Atkins diet and
should be explored. If channeled correctly, the
Britney Spears.
My intent, however, is not to place the WC efforts of inventors could lead to machines one
Ghost in the same category as the aforemen day acting on our behalf, thwarting the evil
tioned detriments. While the others have no crimes of the socially unjust. Many countless
discernible redeeming qualities, the WC Ghost good deeds could be done and preventable
holds potential. Yes, the popularity of its appli wrongs righted. With such untapped potential,
cation is bothersome, but the technology why choose to focus on the echoing of half-
housed within shows irrefutable promise. baked bathroom rules?
Besides, men with poor aim will have poor
Instead of enforcing feminine bathroom eti
quette, it is my belief that many more useful aim when the seat is down, too.
Joel Gaynor
MP
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proven in laboratory studies to
several kinds of cancer, as well as I
the risk of heart disease. One spe
is that CLA also prevents diabetes i
Vitamin Bl 2, like CLA, is found n
beef. Better known as Folic at
helps promote healthy skin. Stud
also shown that Bl2 helps to
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Americans.
Lean beef is the . key facto,
humans who plan to cat
Remember, the leaner the be
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sumer. Take the Atkins diet for j
Many Americans are fooled into t
that thev can loose weight by cat
pounds of bacon a day. But
equals artery-clogged badness. 1
may taste good, but it is not hcali
aside all that health informal:
second and learn why it is moral
to eat a cow.
Cows are raised for one reasot
eaten. They aren’t exposed a |
lifestyle full of glitz and glamoui
are raised in a pasture, being fatti
while they wait to enter the slaughti
Why is that immoral? All tl
know about is what two feet in
their noses is nothing. A cow’s 1(
that of a hand of blackjack. B
cows in the pasture? They folic
other around aimlessly, with no pa
destination.
Is it moral to kill a cow for being
Yes! Without a ■doubt. Kill the i
feed me the beef? We cannot be i
about our feelings for the beef, bee
craving for meat—it is instilled in a
Follow the natural human instin
beef. It is good for the human boi
use.our brains and think about it. Il
hard, but I have faith in everyone
the right decision. Vote yes for ’ba
Student spouts war stats, calls editor
1 wanted you io actually
read some of the truth
behind the war, not just the
falsities you write aboui. 1
want these stats put in,the
paper, please
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* Over 40b,BOO kids have up
to date immunizations.
* School ^attendance is up
80% from thi levels before
the war.
g < >ver I ;5(schools have
Been renovated and rid of the
weapons stored so education
can occut.
*Theporfol I bin QMt wa*
renovated so gram can be oil
loaded tiotrf'ships faster.
| The country has Jis first 2-
billiou-barrel export of oil >:>
August.
* Over L5 milhbn people
bate clean dunking watci for
the first time eVer in Iraq.
I The count™ now receives
two rimes the electrical power
it did heforc the war.
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the hospita
open arid fully staffed,
pared tó .35n/> before the
* Elections are faking p!
every major city, and
councils are in place.
* Sewer .and water lint
installed every major cit
.* Over 60,000 polio
patrolling the streets,
*■ Over 100,000 Iraqi
defense' police are sei
the' country. s
* Over, 80,000 Iraqi si
are patrolling the street
by side with U.S. soldier
* Over 400,000 people ha
phones' for the first time et
* Students are taught
sanitation and hand-w
techniques to preven
spread of germs.
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been signed.
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sch< ml.
* Textbooks that don’t
non Saddam are in schoi
the fust time in 30 u.
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