166552 Thu Nov 14 22:05:56 -0800 2002 1 14 Washington DC & Baltimore Area 0 889842 Those of you who are customers of Polyface Farm at the Dupont Circle Farmers' Market will want to read the thought-provoking article in this past Sunday's NY Times Magazine, by Michael Pollan author of _The Botany of Desire_. He argues convincingly that eating meat is morally defensible when the animal lives a life that allows it to express its true nature, and its death is experienced without suffering. A visit to Polyface Farm was his epiphany. Polyface meat is delicious, too. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/10ANIMAL.html?pagewanted=1 Thu Nov 14 22:05:56 -0800 2002 0 zora 1 889845 If God didn't want us to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them out of meat. :) Carn E. Vore, member of PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals) Thu Nov 14 23:30:46 -0800 2002 889842 0 carnivore