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Sorry, vegans: Brussels sprouts like to live, too
<dh@.> wrote in message ...
> On 24 Dec 2009 19:13:23 -0000, DC > wrote:
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>>NY Times
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>>In his new book, "Eating Animals" (Amazon.com:
>>http://snurl.com/EatAni ), the novelist Jonathan Safran
>>Foer describes his gradual transformation from omnivorous,
>>oblivious slacker who "waffled among any number of diets"
>>to "committed vegetarian." Last month, Gary Steiner, a
>>philosopher at Bucknell University, argued on the Op-Ed
>>page of The New York Times http://snurl.com/ttw8w that
>>people should strive to be "strict ethical vegans" like
>>himself, avoiding all products derived from animals,
>>including wool and silk. Killing animals for human food and
>>finery is nothing less than "outright murder," he said...
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> · Vegans contribute to the deaths of animals
No boilerplate bullshit
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