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• • 06 Apr 06
  • 11:32 pm

  The question of when life begins is involved in both science and religion, even the Bible agrees with the science point of view." Without blood there is no flesh, without flesh there is no blood " in reference to human fetal physiology , there is no decernible heart beat until the end of the 2nd month of pregnancy, or possibly the beginning of the the third, the Catholic Church says life begins at the quickening, or when the mother first feels movement , that is either in the last days of the 1st trimester, or half way through the 2nd trimester. …

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• • 26 Mar 06
  • 11:10 pm

  Actually the choice lies in cost. When I spend four hundred dollars and did not buy meat , the question remains cost. For me it also follows is this organic / free range?

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• • 28 Mar 06
  • 10:18 pm

  I am essentially a vegetarian, I eat very little meat because i know how it is raised and i know what kind of drugs the factory farms put into these animals none of which i want in my body,I spent to many years trying to get all of those toxins out of me .I plant my own garden , avoid fish that is heavily contaminated with mercury and other heavy metals . Free range chicken is readily available on the market here, I guess the main reason I even buy meat is because my husband is not going to give up …

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• • 29 Mar 06
  • 5:52 pm

  Shelley, due to the fact that pigs don't sweat there has never been anything healthy about pork. I have long ago removed pork from our diet ifnot because of the fat content and the impact on the heart , then because of all the toxins that accumulate inthe pigs themselves because of their physiology.

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• • 03 Apr 06
  • 9:06 pm

  Katherine, I am also a breast cancer survivor because of chemicals released into our local enviroment. In my case it is agricultural compounds from the pesticides and herbicides used to spray the crops not to mention the run off that ends up in ground water around here. Thirty years ago M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center said we had significant problem in this area , at that time it was non-hodgkins lymphoma, since ten it has been large numbers of people being diagnosed with breast cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer and in some case women getting hit with both breast and ovarian …

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