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From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: diet and evolution
Message-ID: <912@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 08:14:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: oddjob.912
Posted: Wed Aug 14 08:14:53 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:08:41 EDT
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Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Organization: Univ. of Chicago, Dept. of Physics
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Summary: 

In article <3589@decwrl.UUCP> devi@maisha.DEC (Gita L. Devi PKO1/D1  223-7046) writes:
>
>It's been said that a meat-based diet is a major contributing factor in man's
>aggressiveness and war-like behavior (I know that there will be disagreement
>on this point).
>
I have also seen this statement, and think it is a good argument against
eating meat (if you accept it as being true).  Compare the Sikhs, who
regularly eat meat and make up a disproportionate part of the Indian
military, and the rest of the Indian population which is primarily
vegetarian.

However, an Indian I work with also accepts this statement, but thinks it
is a good argument FOR eating meat; he feels that the Indian people are
too passive as a result of their vegetarian diet (the result being British
colonization, etc., etc.).

					Scott Anderson
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