To unleesh,
thanks for your very positive statement. Very enlightening, and very
encouraging. It seems to me we have two agendas going in this discussion;
meat as reprehensible (or not) because of the suffering inflicted on animals;
and meat as a part of a world economical system that encourages destruction of
rainforests, etc. I do not see either of these arguement as really about
eating animals (everything on the planet "eats"), but about resources. Factory
farming of animals to "feed" American is clearly grotesque, in a peculiarly
American way. It is the way of dominance, rather than cooperation. One
individual encountering the enormity of the practice has been documented in
this discussion, but when people were literally starving, that pig meant life
to their whole family. I'm not judgmental at all about this, or defensive,
and I invite the discussion. We are all moving, as best we can, towards
joining, in union, to save biodiversity on this planet. We cannot avoid this
"assignment" and all our insights are helpful and necessary. Certain of us
"own" some parts of it, and others others, but lets ALL work together. I do
no feel at all abused by being told meat eating is wrong (though I do it
sometimes), but I also feel cutting out others is wrong. And just as vicious.
Keep it all in context: the millenium.
Love, Jane
