Posted by Primer Gray (208.255.196.22) on January 30, 2003 at 17:38:55:
In Reply to: Famous Vegetarians posted by Flower Pagan (68.35.113.192) on January 30, 2003 at 12:00:51:
> > Oprah's a vegetarian? I thought she just didn't eat cows or something.
> FP: I am not totally sure about Oprah, though I know she eats Morning Star products for breakfast. I am still going to resarch about Oprah. I did find a list of famous vegetarians in the process of my research.
> > Anyway, you wouldn't believe how many stories there are of ranchers and USDA inspectors and truck drivers and etc who have gone vegetarian after being a part of the animal industry. A friend of mine who is a teacher where I used to work, her dad was a cattle truck driver for years and years and finally quit and went vegetarian after seeing horrible things...just horrible...
Yeah, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle isn't a book to eat a cheeseburger by either....
> FP: That is interesting. If I was there, I know it won't take me years. Maybe, I need to spend a day there so I can speed up the process of getting my body to return totally vegetarian. It is getting there. The chicken have been unfulfilling lately.
> > Oh, and this quote is fun:
> > "I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals." -Geoffrey Guiliano, the main Ronald McDonald actor in the 1980's who quit and publicly apologised
> FP: That is a real man who had the courage to stand up for what he believes is right and apologize for doing what is wrong. I was wondering what happened to Ronald McDonald because he was an good actor and very creative with a magical quality. Well, that explains why I don't like him any more, it's not the same guy.
It's not the same guy anyway, unless you lived in Toronto from 1980-1982...and he was already a vegetarian when he took the job...he says he ate his last meat 8 years before he got the job.
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