Very good points, Candi. Thanks for the enlightenment!
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- Charlotte Sullivan
Executive Director
Protect Animal Life
"PEACE AND FREEDOM FOR ALL WHO LIVE"
candi churchill wrote:
>
> i agree w/ Charlotte Sullivan in that the vegatarian issue has been
> overdone. i do not mean to say it is not integral to how i personally see
> myself as an ecofeminist, just that this kind of rhetoric is washing
> out--taking over--some other interesting topics.
>
> about women and the consumption of milk from other mammals...i think the
> assumption that women do so fully understanding the devices and methods
> used is untrue. even w/ all the efforts to
> disseminate information on this and other health/moral issues, people are
> not aware. even well educated men and women involved in health fields
> deny how unnatural it is for humans to consume milk after weening.
> this, like most everything dicussed on this network, has a cultural
> history behind it. numerous friends of mine, who would call themselves
> feminists and environmentalists, are not aware of the social
> justifications they themselves make. it is unfair to demand all women to
> be so moral as to get out of the social setting they were raised in and
> condemn this practice. why are women--or better said--mothers expected to
> reject this when we are all products of socialization and inhabitants of
> this planet? women are very much a part of this capitalist, patriarchal
> society (i am speaking from a capitalist, patriarchal society, of course)
> and have to answer up to what is being done to our planet, but along with
> men. not before men because women are so morally superior. we have as
> much work to do encouraging women to act environmentally aware as we do men.
>
> i hope i do not sound like i am making excuses for women. because of the
> historical exploitation of both minority groups and nature, women are
> often more likely to abandon this system that has not been supportive of
> them. but to assume women should be able to reject the
> "nurishment" their own mothers fed them because they are biologically
> of the female sex is wrong. it is an obstacle
> humans must overcome, not as women or men or parents, but as inhabitants
> of this planet. i believe all people should be aware of what they ingest
> into their bodies, but not women over all others, because they do not
> have to be mothers and should not be equated with the mother figure when
> women are many other things, including dairy farmers and butchers.
>
> candi churchill
>
> is going on along with men, not before them hello
>
> because of morally superiorit.
> i am not at all saying we, as human beings with choices, responsible to
> research what we ingest. i am saying it is #1 not a universally known
> issue and #2 it is up to us all, not as women or men or parents, but as
> people to overcome this.
