[Johnnyzen]

>a vegan's message contradicts itself -- it displays intolerance and a need >to control other's choices and individual rights.

Nancy, what do you mean here, that vegans by nature are this way? So I have to eat animals to be tolerant and not be controlling????

I don't care what others eat, except that the more that eat ecolocigally, the better it is for all of us, and the more humane world we will have. I believe that is a goal of Macrobiotics. I do not tell anybody what to eat, just my opinion.

Macrobiotis is an evolving philosophy. there was a time whtn cigarettes were considered ok in Macrobiotics, but most now know that is not the case. Even a MAcro who eats some animals, if he or she is following teh diet according to recommendations, would only eat 4 ounces of fish maybe 1 or 2 times a week, so it is not really a big issue. The question then becomes, why eat animals at all if you don't have to????