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Vegetarian grandstanding
"Dave U. Random" > wrote in message ... > (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. |
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