Fri, Mar-07-14, 08:20
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Senior Member
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 210/154/130
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Progress: 70%
Location: East Central Kansas
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Besides the other very good points mentioned here,does it bother anyone else that this contest apparently focuses totally on looks? "Cutest vegan kid." I have a real problem these days with how the media (and all of us) use looks to intimidate others or to justify a lifestyle, etc. Besides, all kids are cute. Everyone has some beauty. It seems really damaging to me to start overtly stratifying people by "beauty" standards at a young age. It happens enough in a non-direct way as it is.
Also this. Anyone you know eating cat?
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Matthew has three cats of his own and also leaves food out for the neighborhood strays. He said he’d rather feed his four-legged friends than to see them eaten.
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And this:
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Besides not eating meat, he loves drinking a big glass of almond milk or eating anything that doesn’t have any animal by products.
"I eat cookies, doughnuts, apples, and ice-cream," Munor said.
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I suppose there are vegan versions without egg in the cookies, or milk in the doughnut dough? I'm not knowledgeable enough to be sure. But, seriously, you know that he/they have not and can not totally avoid animal "byproducts." Not to mention, as others have, that those are not particularly nutritious even by vegan standards. May get veganism more young followers though. 'I want to be a vegan. You get to eat sugary stuff and be cute.'
Lastly, I am cynical enough to think PETA chose his essay because of this: Part of the essay included,
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"I'm vegan because God put animals on Earth for us to enjoy his beauty."
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They feel the "religious right" is a group that opposes their viewpoint and they want to use this as an inroad to those who may be less adamant. Makes good press. How can we doubt the cutest vegan kid. Don't want to bash the young man. I'm sure he is a great kid. Hate that he's being used as a pawn in a very stupid argument. IMHO
Wow. Turned into a rant. Ignore me and carry on, lol!
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