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    <updated_at>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:57:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Thank you for this wonderful post. Vegetarianism? When we use words and ad -ism to them, it makes me wonder how serious it is. For example, to me, eating a vegetarian diet and Vegetarianism are different, the way eating a plant based diet/no animal products is different from being Vegan. I see it as identifying more with behavior (Being a vegetarian: what I will allow myself to eat) versus a personal philosophy (Vegetarianism).<br/><br/>It is important to me because it allows me to know and control what I put into my body and keeps me aware of the impact my food/lifestyle choices have on the planet. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:50:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>silverstream/The RP freak wrote: &quot;I've never heard of the book. IT sounds nice and I think i'll try it.&quot;</em><br/><br/>It is an amazing book to me. It is about a telepathic gorilla who takes a man on an intellectual journey that will hopefully, one-day lead to making the world better. That is just a fraction of it. What I learned was that the world did not just appear as flawed/broken as it is; there are stories enacted by humans that created what the world had become and it is up to us to change it, before it is too late.   ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:09:40 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>Suchin wrote: &quot;If the right wing religious nuts can jump on the vegetarianism band wagon so much the better. Then at least they got ONE thing right.&quot;</em><br/><br/>LMAO!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[made a comment on the poll Because eggs, if fertilized, would become birds, should vegetarians give them up?]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:28:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>Roshani wrote: &quot;I actually do agree that theoretically, yes, they should not be consumed by vegetarians... however, when will the madness end? If I stop eating eggs b/C they could´ve grown to be chickens... then I...&quot;</em><br/><br/>I love you Rosh! <br/><br/>I differentiate between eggs and milk because milk will never grow to be a cow. That is why I question eggs. <br/><br/>MISS U! ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:04:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I just added a new poll question. Please check it out via the polls link on the Good Reads Vegetarians homepage. ]]></body>
        
    
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