"Dave U. Random" > wrote in message
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> (The Chronicle of Higher Education) ...The grandstanding of vegans
> for carefully selected life forms, to serve their own sensitivities
> - through their meat- and dairy-free diets, their avoidance of
> leather and other animal products - doesn't produce much besides a
> sense of their own virtue. As they make their footprint smaller and
> smaller, will they soon be walking on their toes like ballet
> dancers? And if so, what is the step after that? Pure spirit (a
> euphemism for bodily death)? If our existence is the problem -
> which it is - then only nonexistence can cure it. The supreme
> biocentric act is not to discover yet one more animal product to
> abstain from. The supreme biocentric act is dying, returning the
> finite matter and energy you have appropriated for yourself and
> giving them back to the creatures you stole them from. And what
> makes them so pure? Are they shedding tears as they tear you and
> each other apart? The real "crime" is existence, not being or using
> animals...
>
> Mo http://sn.im/Vegans

Good article. I especially enjoyed watching as panic and defensiveness
ensues among vegans in the comments section.