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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

This 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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