As a life-long meat eater, I confess that I am disgusted and shamed by eating habits that lead to the brutal deaths of so many of God's gentle, living things.

I am sickened by the fact that there are millions of people who don't care, and who even feel a moral superiority about the fact that their dietary practices sustain an global industry of systematic torture and mass murder.

I shudder to think that there is a growing culture of ghouls who happily eat babies, fetuses, sex organs, severed heads and mangled appendages, and who cause pain, disfigurement and death to a degree that would shock even the likes of Stalin, Pol Pot and sicko Adolf Hitler.

They are a culture of smug, arrogant murderers who portray their agenda of wholesale slaughter as the epitome of virtue.

Who are these murderers? Who are these monsters who condone the torture of living things and who stuff their smiling faces with the product of such horror? Who are these human pigs who fill the gilded coffers of evil corporations with their death-tainted money?

They're vegetarians.

That's right. Vegetarians.

Every year, billions of living plants are killed, disfigured, abused, beheaded, pillaged of offspring and otherwise brutalized in order to satisfy vegetarians' cravings for roughage and a lifestyle that makes them feel superior to others.

It's true. Anyone with the slightest understanding of agriculture knows that many plants are killed when harvested. Others have their fruits, which contain potential offspring, hideously ripped off their bodies.

But you'll never hear about this from vegetarians. All you get from this smug crowd is self-righteous blather about how they can't eat meat because their overburdened consciences won't let them participate in a ritual that leads to the death of animals.

And like the smug frauds at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) who are once again trying to make us feel guilty about eating millions of dumb turkeys during the holidays, vegetarians constantly try to make meat eaters hate themselves for killing cattle and other lazy animals that do nothing but eat and crap all day and foul the environment with their dung and drool.

Apparently though, the consciences of these hateful vegetarians don't throb over the murder of plants.

That's because the carrot-heads are the stupidest, most arrogant and hypocritical phonies ever. They refuse to acknowledge that plants suffer and are killed in order to feed them.

Why?

Because it's not the killing of living things they're opposed to, but just the eating of rare, juicy steaks smothered in onions and Worcestershire sauce. If it were the torture and slaughter of living things on a monumental scale they deplore, veggies would be urging everybody to eat red meat, because the killing of animals is minuscule compared to the billions of plants that are killed each year.

So let's go through it, rutabaga killers.

Enjoying that salad? If it's made with iceberg, romaine, escarole or even succulent bibb lettuce, you're eating the beheaded portion of the plant. The legacy of your passion for leaves? Vast killing fields littered with the remains of millions of stumped, headless, formerly living things.

When a lettuce head is chopped off, a white, milk-like liquid seeps from the severed head and the plant stem. Call it plant juice, or whatever. It's plant blood. And that brown stump on the bottom of the lettuce head is the slice wound scabbed over.

Other plants that are decapitated en masse so veggies can scold others: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and celery. Cabbage and broccoli will live after their heads are chopped off. But they will sprout lots of tiny, new heads, making them look like irradiated, mutated freaks.

Studies have proved that tomato plants scream when their scarlet fruits are ripped from their bodies. I've never heard a nasal-voiced veggie deplore such abuse. Ripe tomatoes contain scores of mature seeds. A plant seed is a self-contained plant fetus. Give it some water, sun and warm air and it'll grow. Billions of plant fetuses are gobbled daily by veggies in an unprecedented massacre of innocents.

Many vegetables are immature when torn from plants. They are, in effect, babies, or children. Many simply wouldn't taste good if allowed to ripen or grow to adults. That makes veggies baby and child eaters. The carnage is appalling!

How about the cherished carrot that so many of today's self-righteous murderers nibble on? They're ripped out of the ground while alive, and basically eaten alive. Others that suffer a similar fate: radishes, potatoes, turnips, parsnips, beets and green onions.

Consider the prized asparagus. These firm shafts are sliced off of the plants with sharp blades. But if left to grow, they would produce a feather-like plant with hundreds of seeds. The shafts contain sex organs.

How many stalks of wheat give their lives for a loaf of whole-grain bread?

Next time a vegetarian nags you with a tirade about being a killer for eating meat, reply that they're the greatest mass murderers ever. And tell them one other thing:

That Adolf is smiling up at them.

Dennis Domrzalski is a newspaper reporter, columnist and author in Albuquerque, NM. His comic novel I Got Stinky Feet is a comic novel that rips the world's snobs, slobs, losers and idiots. The book is available at www.amazon.com. Visit Domrzalski at http://www.igotstinkyfeet.com