Vegetarian Star

Scott Adams, the creator behind the popular comic strip Dilbert, has written a book about his success, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.

Adams gives a few bits of advice for making it, but he doesn’t necessarily recommend you follow it, as Lesson#5 states: Don’t take career advice from a cartoonist. (or health advice or finance advice for that matter).

Good health is a must for any success and Adams lists this as one of the keys to getting what you want in life.

Staying Fit is Lesson #3, and he also advises to, “learn as much as you can about what food choices are better for you…People who know the most about nutrition almost always eat better.”

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Scott Adams, creator of the popular office cartoon series, Dilbert, has started a series of blog posts about his ideal city, Cheapatopia.

Cheapatopia sounds a little like a town populated by the Goode family.

Everything is powered by renewable energy, there’s a strict no smoking and no junk food policy to keep health insurance rates down, and the goal is to “do more with less” while reducing consumerism.

You also never have to shovel snow and gain points for good deeds that can be redeemed for services like babysitting.

And the backbone of social interaction in Cheapatopia is the Internet. Ah, a blogger’s dream.

Of course, in an ideal world, a completely vegetarian city would do wonders for health insurance rates, but Adams doesn’t want to tick too many people off.

“I’ll stop short of suggesting that everyone must be a vegetarian, but only because that’s such a hot button.”

Hey, if this is an imaginary world, why not keep calling the shots?

In Cheapatopia, why not make every kind of animal meat available in the veg variety, still tasting like the real thing?

Would genetically altering everyone’s taste buds to dislike meat altogether be too artificial for the goal of  “simplifying” the community and lives of the citizens?

Read more about Collective Buying Power and the Homes of Cheapatopia on Scott Adam’s blog.

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Afternoon pop quiz:

What do the economic crisis, water shortages, global warming, healthcare, and energy all have in common?

Give up? The answer, according to Dilbert creator Scott Adams, is food!

Simply put, Adams thinks that if we start making healthier choices with our food, these problems will resolve on their own.

On his blog, much like cartoonist Dan Piraro, Adams like to dabble in veg related issues from time to time.

Going veg would solve many problems, says Adams, only creating the tiny inconveniences of ticked off meat farmers and 200 year old senior citizens who haven’t kicked the bucket because they’re so healthy.

“Healthy eating would have a huge impact on healthcare costs. It would be partially offset by people living longer, but I have to think multiple sports injuries cost less than one heart bypass operation. And I read somewhere that 40% of mortgage foreclosures are caused by health problems. (Anyone have a link for that?) So in the short run, until the world is overrun by 200-year old marathoners collecting Social Security, the economy would be better off if people ate right. And that would free up money to insure the uninsured.”

“Now imagine that cattle are taken out of the food chain. Suddenly you don’t need to cut down the rain forests to create new pastures, and the cost of food would drop because veggies are much cheaper than cows. Preserving trees would help the environment, which is also good for the economy. Beef suppliers wouldn’t be too happy about this situation, so that is one offset to consider. But your food bill would be substantially lower.”

Read Adams’ remaining explanations of how vegetarianism can solve the world’s biggest problems at Dilbert.com.

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Scott Adams is the creator of the popular Dilbert cartoon series that has launched a thousand laughs about the office, management, and the regular 9-5 grind most of us partake in.

Adams is a vegetarian and also has a blog, where, like cartoonist Dan Piraro, he sometimes like to discuss his beliefs about the lifestyle.

In one of his posts, he said that in order for humans to be natural meat eaters, two things must take place:

1. Eating lots of meat wouldn’t increase your health risks.
2. Seeing a cow would make you salivate if you were hungry

He then goes on to argue that if eating meat is that natural, meat eaters shouldn’t have to barbecue things up or shape them into steaks and so forth. Obviously he’s gotten lots of comments about the argument, but we can’t help but give him credit for such a brillant and hillarious way to argue against meat eating. The next time your friend chomps into a hamburger, ask him if sinking his teeth into live cattle rump would produce the same experience!

Don’t forget to check out Scott’s blog from time to time!

Photo: Tricia on Wikimedia Commons

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