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Plants are not conscious

Posted in rant, tagged on October 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Someone commented on the Aboot section of the blog, but in order to stop that thread from growing into some silly and long thing I thought I would post and reply to the comment here.
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I agree about many of your views…on animal exploitation and such but I have a bit of a difference on your [...]

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A Response to The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Chapter 17, The Ethics of Eating Animals

Posted in rant, tagged , on June 30, 2008 | 39 Comments »

This post is very long, but I agreed to comment on this chapter and when the dust settled I was left with a rather long response. It’s not necessary to have read the chapter to take something away from this discussion, but it would obviously help. I posted a ’sight un-seen’ response in the comment [...]

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Nature vs. Nature

Posted in rant, tagged , on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

So I had to endure a rather painful dinning experience last night at a sushi/Korean-BBQ restaurant. In addition to the sight of all of the sea animals, there were two BBQ pits right in the table where chicken, cow, and god knows what else were cooked. I was not in a happy place [...]

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Ethics – A Loaded Word

Posted in rant on November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’m going to take a break from food to post some thoughts/feelings about ethics because some questions came up tonight and I’ve been mauling over some things and really just need a forum to express myself.
Part 1: The Ethics of Pain
Clearly ethics are not –in general– an arbitrary set of rules, they exist because we [...]

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Vegetarians: what are they good for…

Posted in rant on September 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »

If you’re a vegetarian because you want to avoid causing the suffering of animals GET WITH THE PROGRAM! The milk, eggs, and cheese you eat come from animals that end up slaughtered and eaten. In fact their lives are worse because they have to endure the horrible conditions they’re kept under for a longer period [...]

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Veganism is not a diet

Posted in rant on September 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Just to make it clear, and get the first post out of the way, veganism is not a diet! Many people may think of it this way since it’s the food choices that vegans make which catch people’s attention, but this is just a consequence of a more general ideology. Vegan is a term [...]

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