Bill Bartlett wrote:
> At 5:00 PM -0800 24/1/05, joanna bujes wrote:
>
>> It is entirely possible for humans to share the earth with other
>> species and thereby to grow in compassion rather than "merit" or
>> "reason." After all, as Sam Johnson observed: "Sir, if we all got
>> what we deserved, we'd all be hung tomorrow."
>
>
> It is entirely possible to share the earth with other species AND eat
> them. As for it being a slippery slope to start deciding which living
> things have the right not to be eaten or not, the vegetarians don't
> seem to afford the same rights to cabbages and other vegetable, who
> they gleefully exterminate in greater numbers than us meat-eaters.
What makes you think I'm a vegetarian?
Eat whatever you're going to eat, but spare me the self-serving ideology. That's all I ask.
Joanna