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Default Sorry, vegans: Brussels sprouts like to live, too

On Dec 25, 7:17*am, ex-PFC Wintergreen >
wrote:
> DC wrote:
> > NY Times

>
> > 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 Timeshttp://snurl.com/ttw8wthat
> > 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...

>
> > But before we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed
> > vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider
> > that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok
> > than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my
> > Christmas clay pot. This is not meant as a trite argument
> > or a chuckled aside. Plants are lively and seek to keep it
> > that way. The more that scientists learn about the
> > complexity of plants — their keen sensitivity to the
> > environment, the speed with which they react to changes in
> > the environment, and the extraordinary number of tricks
> > that plants will rally to fight off attackers and solicit
> > help from afar — the more impressed researchers become, and
> > the less easily we can dismiss plants as so much fiberfill
> > backdrop...

>
> > Continued:http://snurl.com/ttw97

>
> "vegans" are not "more ethical" for refusing to consume animal products.
> * In fact, the very fact of being "vegan" is an indication that the
> person describing himself as such is morally bankrupt, because
> "veganism" isn't about doing the right thing at all; it's purely about
> making an invidious, sanctimonious comparison with others and then
> patting oneself on the back.


You still haven't got tired of talking claptrap, have you, Ball?