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Don't know how many here have read <b>"The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability"</b> or similar literature, but I wonder how many vegetarians actually don't conform to the stereotype of animal rights activism...<br>
Or, let me explain:<br>
I believe that humans Can eat meat and it's therefore a free choice. I believe that to eat meat, to hunt animals for meat, is not only OK, but actually sometimes a necessity and adds to the bond and communication between mankind and nature. I do Not support the modern meat-business where animals are treating appallingly, but someone who hunts their own meat, and only kill enough to feed themselves are Not monsters in my book.<br><br>
There seems to be this awful trend in contemporary urban life where people, mainly young people, like to fight for animal rights, fight for preservation of nature, for organic food, etc, yet Still continue to live in the big cities and support the industrial machinery which destroys the same earth they claim to love. A lot of these people Never go hiking or camping in the woods, never ever set foot somewhere green except for Parks, and still seem to think that they are "connected" with nature. For me, "true" connection with nature involves living in pact with it, living off it, going into a communication with it, Not merely living in the big city and not eating meat. One prime example of a culture truly in contact with nature is the Native Americans. How many native americans were vegetarian I wonder...<br>
Regarding these same aforementioned lifestyle-vegans, how many of them would refuse to kill a lion or tiger, only to be eaten by the same animal? Are these vegetarians assuming that animals somehow practice the same non-violent-Gandhi-philosophy themselves? And is this just another example of anthropomorphising?<br><br>
Is the non-religious vegetarian movement hypocritical? Is it a product of the abundance in the west? Compared to people in underdeveloped countries who do not have the possibility to be vegetarians, we're pretty spoiled...<br><br>
To conclude, I should say that for all this I am personally a, new, vegetarian, mainly for religious and health reasons, who consider this a personal choice.<br><br>
All in all, these are Just questions that I have been playing with, they are not neccessarily my views, I just wanted to throw out some hypotheticals and see where it goes...<br><br>
Love and peace to you, and carrot stew, too!
Or, let me explain:<br>
I believe that humans Can eat meat and it's therefore a free choice. I believe that to eat meat, to hunt animals for meat, is not only OK, but actually sometimes a necessity and adds to the bond and communication between mankind and nature. I do Not support the modern meat-business where animals are treating appallingly, but someone who hunts their own meat, and only kill enough to feed themselves are Not monsters in my book.<br><br>
There seems to be this awful trend in contemporary urban life where people, mainly young people, like to fight for animal rights, fight for preservation of nature, for organic food, etc, yet Still continue to live in the big cities and support the industrial machinery which destroys the same earth they claim to love. A lot of these people Never go hiking or camping in the woods, never ever set foot somewhere green except for Parks, and still seem to think that they are "connected" with nature. For me, "true" connection with nature involves living in pact with it, living off it, going into a communication with it, Not merely living in the big city and not eating meat. One prime example of a culture truly in contact with nature is the Native Americans. How many native americans were vegetarian I wonder...<br>
Regarding these same aforementioned lifestyle-vegans, how many of them would refuse to kill a lion or tiger, only to be eaten by the same animal? Are these vegetarians assuming that animals somehow practice the same non-violent-Gandhi-philosophy themselves? And is this just another example of anthropomorphising?<br><br>
Is the non-religious vegetarian movement hypocritical? Is it a product of the abundance in the west? Compared to people in underdeveloped countries who do not have the possibility to be vegetarians, we're pretty spoiled...<br><br>
To conclude, I should say that for all this I am personally a, new, vegetarian, mainly for religious and health reasons, who consider this a personal choice.<br><br>
All in all, these are Just questions that I have been playing with, they are not neccessarily my views, I just wanted to throw out some hypotheticals and see where it goes...<br><br>
Love and peace to you, and carrot stew, too!