Re: Policy statement

Charles Kooij wrote:


I still fail to see how the fact of Hitler's vegetarianism is bogus, and
also don't understand why you're putting the word 'fact' in quotes.
After all, there is no conclusive evidence that he wasn't a vegetarian
(although some, perhaps, that he was a lax one). To claim that he wasn't
a vegetarian when there is lots of evidence that he was and very little
other than anecdotes that he wasn't is pure partisan propaganda.


Well Robert Payne presumably has no axe to grind in respect of vegetarianism, and he seems to have found enough data to refute the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian. I'm sure you could find another historian who might argue differently though, if you tried hard enough.

Always remember that anecdotes are not data.

And if these 'meat-eaters' (to be fair you should call them omnivores)
are trying to dscredit vegetarianism based on their belief (which, based
on an idle google, many vegetarians appear to share) that a person's
diet has any impact on their actions or behaviour you could just point
out that Gandhi was a vegetarian, as were Kafka, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo
DaVinci, George Bernard Shaw, Plato and VS Naipaul among many others.

Doing that would be a lot better than wasting precious energy on getting
pissed off.


You think we should just allow faulty memes to propagate ? Next you'll be telling me that we only use 10% of our brains.


ps - Phillippa Forester is a vegetarian too. If that doesn't make you
want to chomp down on a bacon buttie I don't know what will :)

I have no idea who Phillippa Forester is, but I'll assume that she is not considered to be a shining example of humanity at its finest ?

Paul
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