Hi Gilbert, I read your post below with interest. I may have mentioned before how a dietary change to vegetarianism led to a complete change in my world view. A recent debate sparked by an outbreak of Bird Flu in India has questioned the safety of the non-vegetarian food supply in India where only 40% of the population consider themselves (lacto-ovo)vegetarian. However, check out the SMS poll results at the bottom of this article - http://tinyurl.com/33cxs5
I have recounted my deconversion in a short article published on the US Humane Society website in response to a call for articles on how animals have influenced religious thought. http://www.hsus.org/religion/francis-files-stories/catholicism_to_humanism_112907.html Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON ============= Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 5:20:07 -0800 From: Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is said that religion is nutrition for the soul; while food is nutrition for the body. Are the various religions across the world any different from foods of geographically widely distributed societies? Here is a further explanation of the analogy. This analogy may apply to lot more issues in life than religion. . . . . Does this analogy about normal diets and self-designed diets have any parallels to other aspects of life? The current fad, or a fad that one decides to create based on the latest interesting book or the glossy-cover magazine one reads may or may not stand the test of time. I will let the readers make their own determination on this dietary analogy as it pertains to their own personal experience and perspective. Kind Regards, GL -- http://2008goanconvention.com