Dutch wrote:
> "Pete <(.¿.)>" > wrote
>> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:47:48 +0000, Martin Willett
>> > wrote:
>
> [..]
>
>>> The starving are not starving
>>> because people eat meat but because they haven't got any money, they
>>> will be just as poor if nobody eats meat.
>> Not if we care enough to go veggie. There will be more than enough
>> food to share, if we care enough to share. If you don't care now,
>> you'll never care. That's not our fault.
>
> That is just vegan rhetoric.There's more than enough food for the world now,
> the problem of hunger is not the result of a lack of food, it's a result of
> of economic, political, logistic, and climatic factors, not due to a
> worldwide food shortage. If everyone truly "cared" the problem could be
> solved today.
>

That is why vegetarianism is such a bad idea. If you want to feed the
world just do it. There's nothing stopping you except money and
political will. Meat is irrelevant. Don't wait for everybody to change
to a lifestyle you show to be so unattractive. What is the point of
being a vegetarian when everybody is? Nobody will notice. Nobody will
care. You won't be special any more. The animals haven't noticed, they
never will. Nobody will thank you.

If the whole world does become vegan what will the shock-troops of
veganism do with their surplus moral outrage? That doesn't bear thinking
about, does it? But don't worry, everybody knows it isn't going to
happen. You're as safe being a vegan as you are being an anarchist or a
Jehovah's Witness: for all you whinge on about how wonderful it will be
you can be confident that it will never actually happen and you can
carry on feeling superior to the rest of the population and having your
own little hobby.
--

Martin Willett


http://mwillett.org/