Calvin,

Very clever and humorous piece here from the carnivor's viewpoint. It not only made me chuckle, it also stirred my vegetarian instincts to respond in kind. When I went to the site where I had archived 200 plus lyrics online to fetch a piece called "Veggie Delight", I discovered they have dumped me and all my lyrics. I no longer exist. Hmm... Too bad I don't have back ups. That was my back up.

How do you all ever keep track of what you've written? I've literally lost hundreds of songs over the years because I lose the hard copies in multiple moves and through a basic lack of organization of even my most precious papers (I cannot prove I have been born currently, for instance), or in computer meltdowns where the lyrics become part of the fossilized innards of silicone based devices, or in the dumping of large archives of my material by various servers online who determine I am no longer welcome for some unknown and unannounced reason. Makes me begin to wonder if Buddha had it right saying the material realm is all an illusion anyway. Kind of hard to keep anything I've written in any sort of permanent form.

I'm a fourth generation vegetarian, Calvin. So for me, the image of a gal with a pork chop in either hand is likely to proceed immediately to her looking me in the eye over her triple chins, winking, and saying "oink!" Specifically not porking on pig is a part of my Biblically-derived life style choices (see Deuteronomy 14 and Leviticus 11 for details) which has put members of my denomination living in over 200 countries around the world center stage as some of the longest living folks on the planet. (National Geographic November 2005 cover story, if I recall the date correctly.) Lots of us are living to 100, in part due to lack of coating the inner lining of our circulatory system with lard and other animal based cholesterol products. Even being a veggie like me has a Biblical root (see Genesis 1:29 and the first chapter of Daniel).

Curious how our differing life experiences give us different perspectives when looking at the same situations. That's one of the things I value about interacting here. I get to look at life through a whole lot of eyes other than my own. Seeing through yours in this lyric gives me a perspective otherwise unavailable to me. Thanks!

If we vegetarians convince many to adopt our ways, the butcher boy may need to open a fruit and veggie stand. At that point, his blues will likely be blue berries--a potent antioxidant, and rather tasty as well. If the downhearted butcher boy succeeds in perpetuating the carnivorous lifestyle among the public at large, on the other hand, he will be providing timely and ongoing employment to the local medical professionals and to the mortician's league. Currently, about half of the preventable deaths in America are due to cardio-vascular issues, which are largely a result of years of high cholesterol diets. Ingested cholesterol comes solely from animal-based food products. Go vegan, and you can begin unclogging the arteries that feed your brain (stroke danger here), heart (heart attack here), legs and feet (loss of limbs here), penis (the Viaga crowd might consider an alteration in diet instead of medicine), and other vital organs.

I'm currently a part of a new govornment funded study of 125,000 of my denomination here in North America to see why we are living so much longer than our fellow citizens. We know it isn't due to nationality, as we're getting the same results in over 200 countries around the world. It isn't our denominational affiliation either, since anybody who adopts the same lifestyle choices gets the same results, whatever their choice of world views. Also, our own members who fail to actually put the Biblical lifestyling into practice suffer the same illnesses as the population in general. Guess it is all a matter of personal lifestyle choices, which certainly do affect economics, both on the personal and the national level--and for more than butcher boys.

Keep writing.

Skip

Last edited by Skip Johnson; 04/06/07 04:15 PM.