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- From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
- To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [Livingontheland] Strong Meat by George Monbiot
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:26:08 -0500
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is important to keep around when the vegans get too carried away with their arguments: .. http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/09/07/strong-meat/ > By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 7th September 2010 > > This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1200 > words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often > returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong. More > to the point, it has opened my eyes to some fascinating complexities > in what seemed to be a black and white case. > > In the Guardian in 2002 I discussed the sharp rise in the number of > the world’s livestock, and the connection between their consumption of > grain and human malnutrition(1). After reviewing the figures, I > concluded that veganism “is the only ethical response to what is > arguably the world’s most urgent social justice issue.” I still > believe that the diversion of ever wider tracts of arable land from > feeding people to feeding livestock is iniquitous and grotesque. So > does the book I’m about to discuss. I no longer believe that the only > ethical response is to stop eating meat. > (snip) |
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[Livingontheland] Strong Meat by George Monbiot,
Dan Conine, 09/20/2010
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[Livingontheland] vegetarianism,
Ken Hargesheimer, 09/20/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] vegetarianism, CHERYL WESOLOWSKI, 09/21/2010
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[Livingontheland] vegetarianism,
Ken Hargesheimer, 09/20/2010
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