Re: (un)leash does the Veggie Mambo

1999-01-23 Thread DaliDiego
Is it possible to practice a bit of kindness?

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/22/99 8:04:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: whether they condemn murder, torture, or enslavement in the human realm. Trust me on this one; none of us do. Curious Freudian slip.

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/22/99 8:04:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: meat consumption entail that we are torturers, murderers, sadists, Nazis, slavemasters or any of the other epithets you so blithely toss around. Get used to it; it's a fact. If your meat consumption is

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Donna Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/22/99 8:04:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: meat consumption entail that we are torturers, murderers, sadists, Nazis, slavemasters or any of the other epithets you so blithely toss around. Get used to it; it's a

Tommy Hilfiger is RACIST!!

1999-01-23 Thread Clove13
I'M SURE MANY OF YOU WATCHED THE RECENT TAPING OF THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW WHERE HER GUEST WAS TOMMY HILFIGER. ON THE SHOW SHE ASKED HIM IF THE STATEMENTS ABOUT RACE HE WAS ACCUSED OF SAYING WERE TRUE. STATEMENTS LIKE: "IF HE'D KNOWN AFRICAN-AMERICANS, HISPANICS AND ASIANS WOULD BUY HIS CLOTHES

Re: Tommy Hilfiger is RACIST!!

1999-01-23 Thread Donna Anderson
I didn't see this Oprah show but I'll support this boycott, I need to know which brands are made by this man and his company... not that I can afford clothes made for upper class anybody, but I can spread the word to those who can. In conjunction with keeping an eye on Dick Butler's operations

Re: Tommy Hilfiger is RACIST!!

1999-01-23 Thread Us
Donna, I checked out the link you provided and what I found interesting was that many of the links given on that page had familiar servers such as geocities and concentric. I know freedom of speech protects such groups as the KKK, and geocities and other servers, ISPs, make money from a KKK

Re: Tommy Hilfiger is RACIST!!

1999-01-23 Thread Donna Anderson
Kimberly, I wish the same. Freedom of speech, the first amendment and screaming 'Fire!' in a crowded theater... if there are written, enforceable laws (and there are many) that for example... consider murder a crime, blatent racist hate crimes illegal... how can white supremicists openly call

Re: the veggie debate -- meat recall

1999-01-23 Thread Donna Anderson
Hi Ecofem, Logic and current events would suggest an avoidance of corporate processed meat products in the interim of our veggie debate. 1/23/99 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thorn Apple Valley is recalling all hot dogs and lunch combinations produced at its Forrest City, Arkansas, meat processing plant

tommy debacle

1999-01-23 Thread Robinmcc
Ya just have to love this internet thing. The hilfiger incident is a hoax/rumor/smear/thing. see the listed url for more information. http://mrshowbiz.go.com/news/todays_stories/970327/3_27_97_3oprah_content.ht ml also check out urban legend pages on this one don't believe everything you hear

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Mspiggigrl
Joe, This debate is not whether or not animals are people. Those of us involved are aware that animals are not people. However, people are not the only ones who feel pain and have feelings. The relevance of this to this debate is whether or not it is ethical to inflict pain and suffering on

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:43:37 EST, you wrote: Joe, This debate is not whether or not animals are people. Those of us involved are aware that animals are not people. However, people are not the only ones who feel pain and have feelings. The relevance of this to this debate is whether or

Re: Cruelty accusations and over-generalizations

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 3:39:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pity the pet he treats with the same supercilious contempt he has repeatedly demonstrated towards some of the people on this list. Are you trying to draw conclusions about my behavior towards animals

Re: the veggie debate -- meat recall

1999-01-23 Thread Kimberly Brett
Thanks for this info Donna Kimberly -- From: Donna Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the veggie debate -- meat recall Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 12:28 PM Hi Ecofem, Logic and current events would suggest an

Re: Cruelty accusations and over-generalizations

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 7:36:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: treat them as i would treat any other person.. So you engage in debates with them? Guess what? I don't engage in debates with all persons!! Because not all persons are interested in them! And I didn't

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 8:20:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (2) Animals are better than people What a bunch of horse manure! I have never said this! I couldn't have, as I have stated that humans ARE animals! So obviously you are having an argument with someone

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:23:19 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 1/23/99 7:17:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: deny such differences It makes all the difference in the world how you construe such differences, and the weight you put upon such differences.

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:01:44 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 1/23/99 1:54:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The moment he stops insisting that people who eat meat would enslave, torture and murder other people, I will stop maintaining otherwise. I've never said

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:58:00 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 1/23/99 7:39:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Go back and read the existentialists and the phenomenologists, and meditate on the significance of self-consciousness, which is what makes all of "this"

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:25:41 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 1/23/99 8:20:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (2) Animals are better than people What a bunch of horse manure! I have never said this! I couldn't have, as I have stated that humans ARE animals! So

Re: tommy debacle

1999-01-23 Thread DaliDiego
And why buy clothing with advertising on it? Pay the producer to advertise for them?! AAIIEE! Crazy!

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 8:24:44 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which of these logical rules do you consider an impediment to clear thinking? I'm not going to get into it with you over the pedantic institution known as "Logic", that police officer of thought. If you

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:26:21 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 1/23/99 8:20:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you resort to belittling it and you resort to hubris and human arrogance. I'm the arrogant one? When you're the one comparing meat-eating humans (we

Re: joe, unleesh, set us free!

1999-01-23 Thread Jellking
Hate to say it, guys, but this debate has taken on all the characteristics of an undergraduate philosophy course, in which "scoring a point" and "proving" that others are being illogical is the boring game at hand. I personally agree with Unleesh that factory farming is an absolute

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 8:34:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Weren't you the one who just disparaged all humanity by, among other things, bringing up two world wars? This is not a disparagement of "all humanity". "All" of humanity did not participate in these world

New Earth Proclamation and endorsers, Hague Update and Patch Adams

1999-01-23 Thread Bflyspirit
Earth Proclamation Prayer WE ARE ONE PEOPLE... WE SHARE ONE PLANET... WE HAVE ONE COMMON DREAM... WE WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE... WE CHOOSE TO PROTECT AND HEAL THE EARTH... WE CHERISH THE EARTH'S BIO AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY... WE WILL CHOOSE TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL... WE WILL BECOME

Cruelty accusations and over-generalizations

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
Anyone who has read my posts on Poogie and Fuzzydog could not in all good conscience doubt my compassion for animals. However, such a compassion would not necessarily generalize to the way one treats other people, if (un)leesh is any example. Pity the pet he treats with the same supercilious

Re: Ban on snowmobiles in parks sought

1999-01-23 Thread Mtmolle329
Accommodations for disabled are seldom and virtually always inadequately made everywhere, in or out of natural environs. It is the able-bodied who decimate our parks. If the same restrictions faced by the disabled were levied through legislation (the barring of mobility within parks, etc.) our

Re: Cruelty accusations and over-generalizations

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:07:42 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 1/23/99 3:39:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pity the pet he treats with the same supercilious contempt he has repeatedly demonstrated towards some of the people on this list. Are you trying to draw

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 12:03:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE Keep Brainwashing Yourself, Keep Brainwashing Yourself, Keep Brainwashing Yourself all of this is curious because of course PEOPLE ARE

The Global Peace Walk, Pathway to Global Peace Zone 2000

1999-01-23 Thread Bflyspirit
The Global Peace Walk, Pathway to Global Peace Zone 2000 By Rev. Yusen Yamato, January 18, 1999, Martin Luther King Birthday Holiday We are concerned about our future. We are concerned about our human life. Living on the Globe with All my friends. On October 10th, 1993, I was invited to join

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:17:00 EST, you wrote: In a message dated 1/23/99 7:00:14 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Logical Fallacy Alert! All birds can be animals without all animals being birds, and all humans can be mammals without all mammals being human.

Logical Fallacy Alert

1999-01-23 Thread joe dees
In a message dated 1/23/99 12:03:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE ANIMALS AREN'T PEOPLE Keep Brainwashing Yourself, Keep Brainwashing Yourself, Keep

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 1:54:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The moment he stops insisting that people who eat meat would enslave, torture and murder other people, I will stop maintaining otherwise. I've never said that humanimals who eat nonhumanimals are inclined

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 8:20:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One cannot read Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Aron Gurwitsch or Jean Piaget and still honestly maintain this. Of course one can! And I do!

Re: the veggie debate

1999-01-23 Thread Unleesh
In a message dated 1/23/99 8:39:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm the arrogant one? When you're the one comparing meat-eating humans (we are, after all, natural omnivores) to Nazi fellow-travelers? Physician, Heal Thy Self! Ok, if you use a lampshade made out of the