It is problematic when vegetarianism is imposed on my by force, in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways. That I am viewed as lowly, meat eating person, simply because some cultures believe that it is more moral and superior to eat vegetarian food. There are personal choices, social choices, ecological choices for eating vegetables over meat. That is fine as long as it is not imposed on me. There is a fundamental issue of freedom at stake here.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 15:06, Zainab Bawa <[email protected]> wrote: > > What you eat is both a cultural preference and a personal one. > > Vegetarianism, the way it is spoken of in various discourses and > practices, > > is laden with overtones of morality. I find this problematic. > > What is a healthy choice for one might be an ecological choice for > another, and an ethical or moral choice for yet another. All these > individual/social choices are reflected in the discourses around > vegetarianism. (It's not as though ecological horrors are not > highlighted to make room for the morality play that many construct out > of vegetarianism.) Why is that problematic? > > -- Zainab Bawa Ph.D. Student and Independent Researcher Between Places ... http://zainab.freecrow.org
