Ok now you are equating slavery to eating meat!!! Its the same problem
smokers have with nonsmokers who are getting hysterical out there (and
this is coming from a nonsmoker!) How many smokers out there in
environmental land?
bertina
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, -=- kristi -=- wrote:
> >Plantbeings? Oh get over it!
>
> >Unashamed omnivore (doesnt mean I eat trees!),
>
> >Bertina
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> this reminds me of the accounts of criticism that the abolitionists
> encountered..."hmmph! african people are capable of the same things
> europeans are? get over it!"
> or the hostility suffragettes recieved... "women, vote? get over it!"
>
> i think that history has shown us our own arrogance in examples of other
> liberation struggles; yet somehow the majority of people refuse to take a
> step back and realize that indeed we all could be doing something wrong,
> hurtful, and unneccesary with respect to animal usage. freedom for
> slaves was a preposterous idea a few years back too.
>
> this is not to say that every new idea must be ushered in, but that we
> can't get too used to worn out customs and defend them without even
> knowing why. respecting all other life and treating its elements like
> important
> beings doesn't seem outlandish to me at all. i think it's all about
> appreciating what you've got.
>
> -kristina
>
>
