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My personal favorites are Kare Kano by Masami Tsuda, and Mars by Fuyumi Soryo. Both are romance mangas with a bit of drama thrown in them.
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I was just thinking today how hilarious it would be if Bill became Hillary's vice president. This after hearing about the exit poll in NH where, 54% of Clinton voters would pick Bill over Hillary for president. Geez. I guess in that instance you would at least know what you were getting. I wish Obama had better ideas, as he's an excellent orator and would at least sound lovely. But I like ...
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I don't use nutritional yeast or mushrooms at all, so I would say it doesn't. I don't own that cookbook, but my tofu scrambler has bell peppers and onions in it, along with tumeric for color, and then I wrap everything in a flour tortilla. My guess is that you can add anything you like, and it would be okay. Just think back to the days when you might've had omelettes, and then experiment a lit ...
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I believe PETA's perspective is the whole issue of ownership. They don't believe that animals should be owned by people, and they hate that, as a result, domestic animals are dependent on others for their care. Again, I have this whole issue with them - that they are deciding what's best for each pet; which I see as being just as bad as those who decide that animal testing is okay, are factory ...
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... Have you read the last 10 pages? I've been responding throughout. As this is getting off-topic, I've already answered all of these questions in my posts. Eating insects usually requires killing insects - which if PETA were true vegans, they would be against, as well. A lot of vegans who are animal activists - not necessarily just for health reasons - see it as "direct action" to preven ...
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I was responding to someone asking about insects, and your question about micro-organisms. Throughout the thread, I was speaking from an animal rights perspective, which is what PETA claims to be. I was responding to honest questions, instead of leaving them in the air. Veganism is direct action to animal rights, and a lot of PETA claims to be vegan (although some of them are not). That's why ...
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She asked about killing insects. Generally speaking you kill insects to eat them, yes? I was speaking from an animal rights/vegan perspective, as we try not to kill insects, even the ugly ones. I can't speak about cockroaches and such, though, but I live in Minnesota and keep my place rather clean. As this thread isn't about animal rights, but about PETA, I'll summarize this: No one can li ...
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I'm sorry, are you serious? This is like activists who are against abortion at conception, even when it is just a mass of cells. Generally speaking, I am against consuming things with a central nervous system. That does not include amoebas and mitochondria, as far as I know.
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Actually, vegans don't consume insects, either. I don't consume honey, beeswax, or carmine.
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I think it's partially hard to talk about PETA, and not about animal rights. A lot of people dislike PETA because they are speciesist, and so the topic comes up. I find that in conversations about PETA, it normally comes back to how people believe their position is wrong, and that's why they deem them radical. I hardly find talk about them specifically as an organization. However, to anyon ...
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If you ignore the many, many people who tried a vegetarian lifestyle and found themselves failing to thrive - and not for a lack of education, "proper" vegetarian nutrition, or trying, either. It just doesn't work for everyone. No single dietary style does. Excuse me, but what's your source for this? And what constitutes "proper vegetarian nutrition"? In my experience, those who've gone bac ...
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I'm sorry, but are you actually serious? Cats are obligate carnivores. Humans are omnivorous - there is a huge difference, physiologically. Being omnivorous allowed us to survive throughout the ages, because our hunting skills aren't 100% sharp. Give a regular guy a spear today, and I'll bet you $20 he'd miss the target. I think your analogy is akin to being stranded on a mountaintop due t ...
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No kidding. If hunters really loved the animals they are killing, we would install a neutering program to decrease overpopulation, and thus decrease wasting disease instances as well; so they wouldn't have to take a bullet (and be up to the poor aim of some hunter). I would have more respect for individuals if they would just admit they like stalking and killing sentient beings as opposed to ...
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Actually, that's partially true. I know a psychopharmacologist that works for 3M, and basically why they test on animals is to make sure a certain combo won't outright kill someone. But even when drugs do go right, it still requires a few years of testing with human beings for it to be approved. In the end, whether something works on animals isn't actually the deciding factor, because their ph ...
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To me, PETA is a great organization with corrupt people. In my eyes the actual roots of what PETA stands for is amazing, however the administration as well as some employees are extremely corrupt. I feel PETA is nothing to hate but also nothing to love, there's many other organizations that could use time and effort in supporting, or fighting. A lot of anti-PETA information is put out by the Ce ...
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