An interesting read

[somerfrost]

Other notable vegetarian athletes:
* Stan Price (World record-bench press)
* Robert Sweetgall (World's premier ultra-distance walker)
* Paavo Nurmi (20 World's records in distance running, 9 Olympic medals)
* Bill Pickering (World record - swimming English Channel)
* Murray Rose (World records - 400 and 1500 meter freestyles)
* Andreas Cahling (Winner - Mr. International body-building championships)
* Roy Hilligan (Winner - Mr. America body-building championships)
* Pierro Verot (World's record for downhill endurance skiing)
* Estelle Gray and Cheryl Marek (World's record for cross- country tandem cycling)
* James and Johnathon deDonato (World's record for distance butterfly stroke swimming)
* Ridgely Abele (Winner of 8 national championships in Karate, including U.S. Karate Association World Championships)


The 'factoids' above have been excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize nominated "Diet for a New America" by John Robbins and compiled by REALITIES 1989

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Teri's p.s.:

Cows produce the largest amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

The FDA removed spinach from the markets for TWO deaths; meanwhile, the beef industry kills HUNDREDS every year with contamination and has never been banned from markets.

And chew on this~the US slaughters the cows BEFORE the onset age of mad-cow disease. The beef industry cannot prove their cows aren't infected, and only 650,000 of 35 million slaughtered are tested. Japan and other countries have banned US beef because of a third US cow testing positive for BSE (this cow having previously been tested negative two years prior!). Meat should come packaged with warning labels: may contain ecoli, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, carcinogenic sex-hormones, etc. May cause gastroenteritis, e.coli entritis, heart disease, cancer, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, and death.

Mad cow~ Moo Dammit!

Ok, sure I sound like a preachy vegetarian. But I'm not expecting conversion, only hoping to enlighten.


The above (all 3 parts) copied from a bulletin I received from a friend on myspace!