I’m considering becoming a vegitarian, which is ironic since I’m always making fun of MA for eating rabbit food and she’s actually trying to start eating meat. My concerns with meat are entirely moral–I love the taste and I don’t give a damn about the health impact, but factory farming really twists my stomach.
Plus there’s the whole matter of equal consideration of interests, which has me questioning whether I even have the right to eat a pig. I was working on a speciesism K and I let my gaurd down a bit and in slipped the argument. This is how all those ex-debaters end up trying to take down capitalism.
The insustainability of meat production is pretty shocking, too. It takes 10x as much energy to produce a pound of meat as it does to produce a pound of grain. Plus cow poop contributes to global warming.
But it’s difficult to imagine life without meat. I mean, what do you do at Thanksgiving? Christmas? Or nights in the cafeteria where the vegetarian line is serving bean cakes or something?
July 22, 2007 at 1:30 am
A few things:
-In Chile, all chicken is free range, grain-fed, just by nature of the market. Sweet.
-Bean cakes aren’t half bad
-I’ll be more prepared for running speciesism if we can have some veggie authority points from this
-Tofurkey is always a Thanksgiving option, albeit not a great one. I am pro-artichoke
March 7, 2008 at 11:34 pm
What do you do when meat is the best choice? Eat it. And when there are good alternatives? Eat those. Every set of values has a valid argument fer it and agin it, so fuck it.