RSS in Mail. Can it be eliminated?

I hate RSS. I have it off in Safari in the Debug Menu. I've deleted the feeds in Apple Mail but they just come back. Set to Manually and After One Day in Mail preferences.
I see no way to turn it off totally in Mail. A debug menu to activate? Anything.
RSS is such a useless way to read on the web.
Message was edited by: musicmaker

I just wanted to add that I have managed to delete the Apple Hot News RSS feed from mail.
A simple right click and delete feed was doing nothing, nothing via the menu would work. Each time it would ask if I wanted to delete is, and yes I wanted to, but there it stayed
I ended up navigating to:
User > Library > Mail > RSS - I deleted the contents of RSS, but did leave the RSS folder in place.
Then I relaunched Mail and the Hot Apple News RSS feed was still there, but was showing an error.
This time when I right clicked on it and chose delete it went away!
Yay!!
Will

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