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Let us give thanks for meat

Please do not be swayed by the animal elitists who whine and argue against the consumption of meat, pushing the public to swallow vegetarianism.

Plants create the oxygen humans need to breathe. Animals don't. Animals compete for the oxygen humans need, and animals create carbon dioxide, a "green house" gas.

Indeed, vegetarian animals destroy oxygen producing plants. Simply put, animals behave like animals, whereas plants are peaceful and quiet. So eat animals, not plants. Meatatarians unite?

With the festive season upon us, let's not include plants as a "festive dish" for the holidays. Please think how "festive" it is for helpless plants grown in a land ruled by humans, always under their green thumbs. They are crowded into unnatural, man-made rows in factory farms and involuntarily treated with chemicals like imprisoned patients for the experiments of mad scientists.

Please think about how "festive" it is for plants to be literally uprooted from their homeland and neighbors only for a premature death.

How "festive" is it to be tossed into containers holding piles of other dead or dying plant bodies, sometimes transported in total darkness?

Only the kindness of a premature death finally ends the plant's "festivities." Then they are sliced, diced, boiled and baked to become salads, breads and side dishes.

Every year, with weak government regulations, billions of plants are slaughtered. I am not writing this to horrify the holiday public.

I cannot imagine how anyone can whisper a prayer of Thanksgiving over a being that suffered so greatly at a time when our world needs so much compassion and peace. Shame on all who eat plants and therefore encourage this horrible atrocity.

Please consider not eating plants this year and end this horrid tradition that causes so much pain and mistreatment of our plant friends.

Although I do not agree with the preceding diatribe, I found it necessary to give equal time for a counterpoint in favor of plants.

I am a lawyer, and lawyers sometimes advocate positions with which they do not agree for the benefit of their clients. Consider this pro bono for our "green friends."

Rex Curry is a Tampa lawyer who also is a member of People for the ethical treatment of non-animals (PETN), a sub-group of PETA (people eating tasty animals).