Letters to the Editor 03-19-1998
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Editor, Times-Union:To Troy Bouck,
Concerning your response to Ms. Michael, not bad. A waste of time in a couple ways, but not bad at all. For one thing, I'm sure Ms. Michael sent that letter to every paper in northern Indiana and knows no more about Warsaw than she does about pork. For another, arguing with people like that is like arguing with a drunk. You might as well save your breath.
Personally I find vegetarians to be rather hypocritical. I think strawberries are just as cute as pigs, and they don't smell nearly as bad. As far as intelligence is concerned, who knows? One hundred years ago we had no idea whales were so intelligent. But vegetables are living things, and fruit, nuts and berries are their unborn, no different than animal eggs. I seem to remember back in the late 1960s a group of goof-balls did tests on tomatoes to determine if they feel pain when sliced. The results were pretty positive, though minute. But then no one asked the tomato how badly it hurt.
I guess you could twist a very old joke around something like this. Question: "What's the difference between a carrot and a lobster? Answer: "A carrot doesn't scream when you drop it in boiling water." Are we sure, or is it maybe we can't hear a carrot scream?
Anyway, I've thought about giving up eating living things, but the replicator Captain Kirk gave me broke down a long time ago, and rocks hurt my teeth.
Harold Kitson
Warsaw
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- Meat
Meat
Editor, Times-Union:To Troy Bouck,
Concerning your response to Ms. Michael, not bad. A waste of time in a couple ways, but not bad at all. For one thing, I'm sure Ms. Michael sent that letter to every paper in northern Indiana and knows no more about Warsaw than she does about pork. For another, arguing with people like that is like arguing with a drunk. You might as well save your breath.
Personally I find vegetarians to be rather hypocritical. I think strawberries are just as cute as pigs, and they don't smell nearly as bad. As far as intelligence is concerned, who knows? One hundred years ago we had no idea whales were so intelligent. But vegetables are living things, and fruit, nuts and berries are their unborn, no different than animal eggs. I seem to remember back in the late 1960s a group of goof-balls did tests on tomatoes to determine if they feel pain when sliced. The results were pretty positive, though minute. But then no one asked the tomato how badly it hurt.
I guess you could twist a very old joke around something like this. Question: "What's the difference between a carrot and a lobster? Answer: "A carrot doesn't scream when you drop it in boiling water." Are we sure, or is it maybe we can't hear a carrot scream?
Anyway, I've thought about giving up eating living things, but the replicator Captain Kirk gave me broke down a long time ago, and rocks hurt my teeth.
Harold Kitson
Warsaw
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