COLUMN: The dark side of vegetarians and why we carnivores should eat them.

I’ve always had problems with 100 percent vegetarians. They always seem so pure, so clean, so worthy of life because they do not eat other animals. One of  my friends, Wendy Anderson, is a vegetarian. She is helping me on a novel, but I’m suspicious of her and plan to eat her right after it’s published.

Oh, I’m well aware how the doctor’s and health experts say to eat more veggies … more veggies and fish, and no meat. But it seems to me God made carnivores on earth for a reason, and maybe in a million years if we meateaters win out, we’ll be raising vegetarians to eat. Seems reasonable to me.

But vegetarians have a much worse history in regards to mankind than we barbecue savages. I was appalled at the recent discovery of the mental attitudes of some of our most famous vegetarians in the eons of human existence. It may stem from the fact that something essential is missing from an all-vegetarian diet. Take a protein that is found in meat and certain fish. Without that particular protein maybe things in the brain don’t function properly, especially mercy.

Rubbish, you veggie eaters say! But the proof is in the pudding or the greens.

The most horrific destroyer of mankind in recorded history was Genghis Khan. He was a 100 percent veggie fellow and the amount of people and cities destroyed is incalculable, millions upon millions according to his biographers. Okay I know that’s way back in time so let’s look a wee bit closer. Maybe his wife was a bad cook, who knows?

The arch villain Adolph Hitler was said to also be a vegetarian. No doubt he was brilliantly ruthless, he even tried to make all Germans go green. His propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was also a veggie eater and he ended  up poisoning his entire family. Of course, Adolph lost out on forcing Germans to vegetate.

Nazis refused to give up their wienerschnitzel and knockwurst goodies. But, nevertheless, Hitler seems to fall into the veggie club. He didn’t eat meat, and in various recorded events he felt sorry for the animals that were destroyed for human consumption.

How confused can a vegetarian become about the value of life?

Then comes along vegetarian Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge. Pot slaughtered an estimated 2.5 million of his people or 24 percent of the Cambodian population. Yes, he was a bean and leaf eater. He was determined to make his country agrarian, green only, with no livestock to be consumed.  So the vegetarian killed the non-vegetarians and those who would not conform to his political standards. He killed all intelligencia, only the planters of rice  and vegetable farmers were fit to live. City people were forced to relocate to veggie-raising communes.

And then we have our own home-grown veggie nut, Charles Manson. His group needs no historical introduction. He merely extolled that vegetarianism was next to cleanliness and that their cult drug power would only come from plants that could produce illusionary enlightenment. But of course, like the other off center vegetarians, he had a double standard on mind-expanding drugs that they made in poisonous cooking labs.

And what about Jim Jones, in Jonestown, Guyana, South America? His all-vegetarian cult of 900 really did the ultimate. They forced suicide with homemade Kool-Aid … and veggie fruit lemonade.

While I looked into vegetarian historical accounts, I must admit these wacko infamous leaders are the exception. But the vegetarian leaders do have a problem. They kill in vast numbers and the biggest mass killers in mankind were vegetarians! 

The pacifist veggie eaters I know are wonderful folks and, to be honest, I envy their lifestyle. I’m often very disturbed in seeing pictures of those tortures chambers called cluster animal farms where the poor creatures can’t even move. They only have enough room to eat and hardly lay down. Then they are slaughtered. It’s awful and unworthy of our Creator’s gift  of animals to mankind.

This horror gives cause for vegetarianism. Hooray for the green eaters!