Chris, Very good point. I heard a comic say, (as part of his act), that his neighbor often denounced him because he was such a big meat eater. Pointing out how cows are a huge part of global warming because they emit methane gas. He then asked in an accusatory tone, what HE was doing to help the environment? The comic, being a self-proclaimed gun-toting , meat and potatoes-eating Redneck, replied, " I'm eating the cows". k
--- On Sun, 1/16/11, ChrisAustinLane <[email protected]> wrote: From: ChrisAustinLane <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] the death of the prince, vegetarianism?(to Chris/Kristy/list) To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 7:33 PM Thanks, Chris Austin-Lane Sent from a cell phone On Jan 15, 2011, at 5:12, Mel <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't get me wrong, because I personally love my vegies, fruit, tofu, beans > and so on...but I'm not quite clear on this 'vegetarian' thingy I am vegetarian and the thing I tell my kids is that since I do not need to eat meat and since the world has too many people to support every one eating meat, I abstain (except for my cultural high holy days: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years). I must confess to enjoying not having to shudder so much when the PETA people get some footage of the abattoirs in front of me, but I do not do it for that reason. There is an advantage to not eating meat for environmental reasons is that the environmental consequences of out behavior is mostly based on the aggregate total of all out behavior, so the first duty of an environmentalist is to persuade others, not to be a beacon of purity. If you are 99% pure but piss of your neighbors to the extent that they compensate for your purity, you have achieved no environmental savings.
