User talk:Rosemaryamey/talk2004

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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 00:45, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi Rosemaryamey, welcome to Wikipedia! It's nice to see another vegan around here. I hope you'll stay, and become an active contributor. Eurleif 21:13, May 3, 2004 (UTC)

Trans-fat
- Hello, I saw you put back the section about "trans-fat" on the Vegan page. I wanted to discuss my reasons for deleting it. First, Trans-fat(hydrogenated oils) is found in all types of food, not just Vegan. In fact it is mostly found in junk food, fast food, or any highly processed food and not vegan food. Companies that make vegan food know how bad hydrogenated oil is and usually do not included it in their products.

Secondly, the paragraph states it's "found in some popular vegan products such as veggie-burgers, french fries, and almost all baked goods." This is a huge over generalization. People who love french fries are most likely non-vegan and most likely get their fries from fast food restaurants, which certainly do use hydrogenated oils when making them.

Any health conscious vegan knows to avoid hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils. I think this paragraph was written with "lazy" vegans in mind. Yes there are many vegans and even more vegetarians who eat a lot of junk food and do not practice good nutrition, but that's a whole other article. Which is why I dont think this short paragraph should be included in the Vegan-Nutrition section. I have also read many Vegan Nutrition guides and none have ever mentioned trans-fats. I discovered them on my own.

So, do you see my point for deleting it now? Do you think it should either be expanded, have it's own section, or be deleted? Let me know. Sorry for writing all this here, but you don't have a listed email. Thanks. - Lance Milk May-24-2004

Hi! Firstly, I replied to you over at Talk:Abraham Lincoln. Secondly, welcome to Wikipedia! -- Wikisux 18:30, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Vivisection
Hi there and welcome to Wikipedia! I just wanted to thank you for your quick edit to vivisection following my accidental deletion of one of Hall's principles. Thanks again! --Diberri | Talk 01:12, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)

Vegan
Hi there, I just wondered what was unsubstantiated about saying that the remaining 9kg of what an animal eats doesn't disappear?

For one, I don't think that the whole "10kg of grain for 1kg of meat" argument is particularly accurate, but that's a different discussion. I mean, cows don't eat grain, for instance. Hens do, but cows eat grass. Everyone knows that.

If the remaining 9kg (we'll stick with that figure for argument's sake) isn't converted into manure, then what *does* happen to it? It can't just disappear! If we assume that it does - "just disappear", that is - then we have to consider where it's gone. Mass/energy equivalence means that we get around 1kt from roughly .047g of matter. Now, the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated was 100Mt (equivalent to 100 million tonnes of TNT), and included a mass of roughly 4.5kg of fissionable material. Now a cow eats around 15kg of forage a day. Assume we lose 5kg of that to unknown things (possibly water evaporating off) so we stick with our 9kg of "missing" mass. This means that a cow has to dissipate as much energy as would be released by 13 Hiroshimas *every day*!

Clearly livestock farming is more dangerous than I thought... Gordonjcp 09:52, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

HBC
Ah, I didn't read the article yet. Thanks for pointing that out. I've been doing a lot of writing about Oregon history lately, and just rewrote part of the John McLoughlin article, where you can see a little bit about HBC in Oregon. Basically HBC ran the Oregon Country as a private business operation for about two decades in the 1820s and 1830s. They were very adverse to settlement in the region and interference in their operations. The early emigrants over the Oregon Trail faced a lot of resistance from them and the struggle between HBC and the settlers. I planned on getting around to the HBC article eventually. I'm not surprised there is anything about it. Canadians might think the HBC is only Canada-related, since all this happened so long ago! :) -- Decumanus 04:11, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

More HBC
Added to the history article to the Hudson's Bay Company about the Oregon Country, following your comment. :) -- Decumanus 16:24, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice comment! :-) JulieADriver 00:38, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Harry Potter
Hi. I noticed you reverting the removal of those MSN Slate articles from the external links of Harry Potter. To tell you the truth, I was almost going to remove them when I re-ordered the external links according to traffic rankings, because they seemed out of place there. If there were more than two articles about Harry Potter listed (and god knows, there have been many articles about Harry Potter), then I would leave them. As it is, an anonymous user did it anyway. Anyway, return them if you like, but I think if you do, we should try to include many more articles about Harry Potter, from more authoritative sources than MSN. Ideally, we shouldn't need any such external links because any criticisms or praisings of Harry Potter should be explained well enough in the article itself. - Mark 09:42, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Human hair is not vegan
Human hair from salons is not vegan because human hair is techinally an animal product. Vegans do use the human they grow but not other human's hair. You see humans are actually animals because they are in the kingdom Animalia. Vegans also avoid other human products such as keratin. Get the picture, vegans do not use human products. Now I am not vegan but I thought about being vegan. - Heegoop, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * I'll copy this over to, and reply in, talk:vegan. Rosemary Amey 23:30, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Disability rights activism
Have you tried looking through the history to see who might have removed it? You could always add it back in and see what happens. --Viriditas | Talk 13:09, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Relevance of effects of Mercury (Hg) on the central nervous system (CNS) in Chelation Therapy article
Rose Mary: please take a look at this discussion, and feel free to chime in with your opinion. Regards, Intersofia 20:58, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Tree of Life Foundation
A tag has been placed on Tree of Life Foundation, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please affix the template  to the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, article #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Kavadi carrier 02:18, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Answer to your question re vitiligo in animals
Vitiligo will be a white area that used to be pigmented. For example, in the Rottweiler I showed, it used to have a black nose, and, in fact, Rottweilers normally have no white areas. A dog could not develop vitiligo, btw, in an area that is totally white, like the white blaze on a collie.--  Carold e  rmoid  ( talk  •  contribs ) 23:57, 17 November 2006 (UTC)