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PETA: Give tax breaks to vegetarians ……..

By: Santosh :+: Under: Opinion, Politics, Religion, Sarcasm, Science
On: ⋅ June 2, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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…. because “[V]egetarians are responsible for far fewer greenhouse-gas emissions and other kinds of environmental degradation than meat-eaters.”. In other words, vegetarians slow down global warming. Woohoo! More power to the veggie desis. In support of their letter, they cite this study which was conducted by the UN and the University of Chicago.

Being a vegetarian for the first 18-20 years of my life, I guess I was doing my part in fighting global warming. Before I get caught up in the jingoism, while I respect the choice of leading a vegetarian lifestyle and PETA for their work in trying to save animals, their insistence for a vegetarian lifestyle flies in the face of logic. Humans are by nature, omnivores. Just ask our ancestors, the cavemen - if you believe in evolution, that is.

Being vegetarian or not being one, is a personal lifestyle choice that is non-obtrusive on someone else’s dietary choice. Speaking of tax breaks, taxing should be a means of fairly dividing the cost of government among people. This tax break, it would represent an unfair advantage or disadvantage to people for their choice of lifestyle. So lets call this tax break for what it is, just a bunch of gas.

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