About this vegetarian-to-carnie conversation: did anyone read Carol
Adam's Sexual Politics of Meat? She spends a lengthy amount of time
explaining how the context of meat eating in which these conversations
come up presents a difficult position for the vegan/vegetarian. Anyone
who has read the book care to discuss?...
sarah
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 4:55 PM
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT
> Subject: Re: Vegetarians plan carnivore converts
>
> Best way to bring a conversation around to the cruelty involved with
> eating meat:
>
> Someone: "I love animals!"
> Me: "Wow, so you're a vegetarian. I am too. I just can't believe
> people think it's okay to eat meat. What a cruel thing to do
> to animals. I could never imagine permitting and paying for
> such horrible things... [blah blah blah]
> Someone: "No, wait a minute. I'm not a vegetarian."
> Me: "But... I thought you said you 'love animals.' "
> Someone: "Well, yeah, but... "
> Me: "Ohhh, so you only love SOME animals and you believe it's okay
> to hurt the others. My mistake. I misunderstood."
>
> It's that simple to start such a conversation. I've used this
> approach
> a lot!
>
> Another interesting point is this: Do meat eaters realize that they
> eat
> mostly VEGETARIAN animals?? (except, of course, when meat-by-products
> are
> mixed in with the animals' natural diet, making the animals UNnatural
> carnivores!)
>
>
> At 08:07 AM 1/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Vegetarians plan carnivore converts
> >
> >CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) - Vegetarians from around the world pledged
> >Sunday to convert millions of meat-eaters by the end of the century
> and
> >launched an Asian Vegetarian Union. The Bangkok-based Asian group
> seeks to
> >foster the still-fledgling vegetarian movements in many Asian
> countries and
> >counter a trend among the continent's youth to ape Western
> carnivorous
> >habits. More than 400 participants from 30 countries at the 33rd
> World
> >Vegetarian Congress concluding Sunday called on vegetarian groups all
> over
> >the world to invite people to give up meat for the new millennium. A
> mass
> >pledge-taking ceremony is planned at midnight, Dec. 31. See full
> story
> ><http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557977332-c40>
> >
> >
> >
