Saturday, November 28, 2009

Factory farming is the real evil, not vegans

Every time I write a vegan-related post, I get grief from dedicated green omnivores who run or support small farms and only choose organic, grass-fed beef, etc. I’d say it’s time for a sit-down.

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Excerpted from a recent article by Richard Oxman:

If Che hadn’t been captured and killed in Bolivia, and was still operating there today… he’d have the additional problem of now not being able to drink from any number of the country’s contaminated rivers without succumbing to poison. Or, because of deforestation, hide easily. [Pause.] If he were elsewhere, the lack of potable groundwater, carcinogenic air, or increasing toxicity in other forms might do him in prematurely. [Pause.] And this is without any reference whatsoever to the decline of Beauty — possible Beauty — in our lives, without which life is not worth living. The world isn’t ending. It has already ended in places. For both humans and other species.

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