(This Email from MissKittyPunk@hotmail.com)
Hello.

I hope this message finds you in a good mood and good health!

My name's Sarah Ann (known as Red). I checked out your page www.straightedgeonline.org I enjoyed it greatly and found it to be very informative. (Doesn't this sound like it was written by some tight-ass prick?)

I do have one comment to make to one of the messages on the "comments" page. THe guy who wrote it said that vegetarianism is a way to try to make up for society's problems and that humans are natural carnivores. I am straightedge and a vegetarian. Before making the decision, I DID stop and think, and for the three years that I have been living with this decision, I have never stopped thinking. According to comparative biological studies, human anatomy is much closer to that of naturally herbivorous animals than to that of carnivorous animals. Yeah, we've got canine teeth, but we do not have fangs or talons, or any other anatomically evolved appendage that would aid in the hunting or eating of meat. We have one long intestinal tracts, characteristic of the bowels of an animal that lives on a merely herbivorous diet.

ANimals, such as lions, have very short intestinal tracts, because meat does not take nearly as long to break down in the system and pass out of the body as vegetable matter. By eating meat, one sells into a greater evil than just biological manipulation though. THe meat, dairy, and egg industry is filled with abuse and terrible cruelty. By consuming meat, one not only plays part of the system, but offers voice to the industry, saying that meat is a good thing. We weren't built to hunt, nor were we built to enslave, abuse, exploit and kill.

Dividing on this issue, though, is a weakness of the "movement", as some would call it. Youth are under attack from all sides: police profile and harrass young people; capitalism targets and destroys the minds of youth, forcing upon the unstable and weak, products that kill and pacify; and now we fight with one another.

Did we learn nothing from the message of Op Ivy? We've got to UNITE despite our differences. Much love and respect!