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Sorry, vegans: Brussels sprouts like to live, too
Dutch wrote:
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> "Rupert" > wrote in message
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> On Dec 25, 7:17 am, ex-PFC Wintergreen >
> wrote:
>> DC wrote:
>> > 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 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...
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>> > 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...
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>> > Continued:http://snurl.com/ttw97
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>> "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.
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> You still haven't got tired of talking claptrap, have you, Ball?
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> That's not claptrap, it is quite true. Of course vegans want to do what is
> right,
I'm not persuaded of that at all.
> but sanctimony is part of it. I've been on both sides of the issue,
> and the charge is valid.
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