Well, the tabacco industry and the meat industry are both industries of
DEATH no matter how you look at it, and these industries of DEATH are
fueled by the the corporate DEATH power mongers who have seized power in
the wake of consumer apathy. They both use shifty ad campaigns,
programming, smokescreens and deception to fuel it too. And McDonalds is
right in there cutting down the rain forest and saying they're not and
having people believe them. And you know what.... I AM HYSTERICAL, even
though I don't have any ovaries, and being HYSTERICAL is pretty
unavoidable when putting any thought into how we're going to solve this
fucked up mess that we're in.
Mad cow disease ain't no anomalie and neither is e-bola. We don't respect
the earth, she squashes us like bugs.
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Bertina Miller wrote:
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, -=- kristi -=- wrote:
>
> > >Plantbeings? Oh get over it!
> >
> > >Unashamed omnivore (doesnt mean I eat trees!),
> >
> > >Bertina
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
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