me.kirchhoff wrote:

> I'm not sure how old this is, but I just discovered Bruce Friedrich's
> "Veganism in a Nutshell" at http://brucefriedrich.org
>
> Most who've been vegans for some time will already be familiar with the
> information presented, but I've found that his succint discussion can be
> a great way to help friends/family better understand the vegan lifestyle.
> There's no copyright on the material, so you can *legally* make copies
> and distribute them freely. Good stuff!

It's worthless and incoherent. Here's just one
example, not from the "essay" itself but from his
"question and answer" section. He starts with an
introduction, which includes the following:

Please note that none of these questions addresses
the fact that meat-eating is the worst thing you can
do for the environment, supports human injustices
both in the U.S. and globally, and harms your own
health. Nor do any of these questions address the
gratuitous animal abuse on factory farms and in
slaughterhouses.

Then he gets to the first question:

Animals eat one another in nature, so why shouldn’t
we eat animals?

His answer does EXACTLY what his introduction says he's
not going to address:

Please examine what we do to animals on factory
farms and in slaughterhouses, denying animals
everything that is natural to them and then killing
them in gruesome ways, and try to tell me that this
is moral.


It's all downhill from there. "veganism" is not a
principled ethics, and nothing this semi-terrorist
Friedrich write does anything to invest "veganism" with
even a hint of moral principle.

"Essay" is taken from the french "essai", a noun
meaning "attempt" or "try". Friedrich's try is a very
bad effort.