{"id":88056,"date":"2021-12-22T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=88056"},"modified":"2021-12-22T08:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:56:59","slug":"the-gauntlet-has-been-thrown-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2021\/12\/22\/the-gauntlet-has-been-thrown-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The gauntlet has been thrown down"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a quiet conflict underway in this country, call it a war in the making. It\u2019s been smoldering under the radar for years, but now the flames lick higher. It started in the 1960\u2019s, maybe earlier, when a college student, usually a co-ed, came home for Thanksgiving and announced, \u201cI\u2019m a vegetarian!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Mom went into a tizzy, \u201cWhat do we feed her,\u201d she asked Dad. \u201cI\u2019ve got a 25 pound turkey in the oven and all the fixings including a bushel of mashed potatoes and enough gravy to drown an army.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a phase,\u201d her husband replied. \u201cShe\u2019ll get over it by the end of the semester.\u201d And, that\u2019s what usually happened, back then. But not anymore. It\u2019s now an outright conflict between the herbivores (plant eaters) and the omnivores (plant and animal eaters). Our species evolved as omnivores; we have the teeth to prove we were genetically destined to consume both meat and plants. <\/p>\n

But now that the war has heated up, our species has divided into two different evolutionary forks: The omnivore fork and the herbivore fork. And, who do you think is throwing the bombs? Not the so-called uneducated meat eaters; it\u2019s the descendants of peace loving flower children: vegans and vegetarians. They are in an attack mode \u2013 going as far as to claim that the animals consumed by the omnivores are the cause of global warming and climate change.<\/p>\n

Maybe they will dominant the path of the human species, discarding us omnivores, just as we did the Neanderthals. It\u2019s going to get ugly out there. No more spaghetti and meatballs! No more pizza with pepperoni! No more ham and eggs! No more bacon burgers! A whole bunch of us old guys won\u2019t give up; they\u2019ll have to pry the hot dogs out of our cold dead hands. <\/p>\n

Send comments to mlessler7@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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