Greetings EEVBees:
--I love this forum. Peculiar assertions come out of the woodwork here and scurry around, ideas and contentions you rarely see by light of day. Vegetarians, I love em, more roast beef for me. But, then there are their fanatical cousins the Vegetalitarians. The more rope you give a Vegetalitarian the more likely it is that he will hoist himself by his own petard. Beans being what they are to methane production. Some of the unlikely and scabrous evacuations made in this thread are simply astounding in their preposterousness. No, the food companies are not grinding up chicken beaks and putting them into your food. That is a completely dishonest assertion. Next the Vegetalitarians will be saying that, if I fertilize my alfalfa fields with manure, and then feed the hay to my cattle, that somehow, I am putting Cow Sh*t in your hamburger. Arrrg. Do not pee on that orange tree young man, think of what the Vegetalitarians will say. Possibly protein deficiency has addled their brains. Soon we will be hearing the "meat eaters are unclean and smell bad" meme, in addition to being greedy pigs who do not care about the planet. Sanctimony abounds, Feh. If you are a consumer of meat, thank what ever Gods there be that you are not the minority, for it seems unlikely that you would receive the same tolerance that you afford them.
--They, the Vegetalitarians claim to want cheaper and more plentiful food for everyone (plant based food, that is). But, if you bioengineer Golden Rice, so that children who have little to eat but rice, will not go blind, you will find your facilities infested with felafel sucking yahoos, accompanied by a few of the slightly more aggressive quiche eating yahoos, screaming "Frankenfood" and trying to burn your laboratory down.
"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."
Hamlet, scene ii.
Best Regards
Clear Ether