XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, rec.food.veg   
   From: anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net   
      
   (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...   
      
   More: http://sn.im/Vegans   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)