At Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:20:57 EST, you wrote:
>
>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
>
Tyson's not telling you; Fowlent Green is Chickens!
>
>
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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