[Bruce Paine]

Thank you, Johnnyzen!

MJS,

I read a lot of emotional concepts in what you say, and if emotional appeals solely were what moved me, I'd be moving in that direction.

Macrobiotics is about freedom, not just health or well being but about freedom.

Just like humans have different kinds of teeth for eating different kinds of foods, we also have different needs and desires and the choices of foods aids us in the pursuit of them.

While I would be happier living in a world that has more vegan, vegetarian, and especially macrobiotic people living in it, I would not be as happy if everyone represented just any one or any combination of those groups mentioned.

And I certainly would not be as happy if any combination of those group's choices were the only ones allowed.

I feel that the world functions best in diversity, and diversity doesn't seem to proceed well when choices are limited.

So, while I applaud your decision to be a vegan and try to get more people to become vegan, I can't support your desire to make everyone vegan, because that's not the kind of world I want to live in.

As I have stated before, it's not important to me that everyone in the world become macrobiotic...I just would like everyone to know what a viable choice it is, so that at anytime, anyone or more of them might need and want it, it will be there for them.

Thank you, very much.

Bruce Paine