http://platosbeard.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/alternet-reviews-singers-latest/
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> AlterNet: It's Not Enough to Be a Vegetarian
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> There wasn't much wiggle room left for the casual carnivore when
> über-ethicist Peter Singer got finished with us in 1973. That's when
> his uncompromising assault on trans-species suffering, Animal
> Liberation, had millions of readers trading in their T-bones for
> tofu.
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> But now even the moral high ground of a vegetarian lifestyle isn't
> good enough. Singer's new book, The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices
> Matter argues that, all things considered, only a vegan lifestyle
> will do. The reasons go far beyond Singer's past exposés of animal
> abuse and factory farming. Tracking the source of food served at
> three very different American tables, Singer and his co-author Jim
> Mason uncover more than they could swallow.
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> How we eat can influence the very health of the planet even more than
> switching to hybrid cars or solar heating. The hidden costs of even
> the most prudent food choices — costs in terms of social injustice,
> poverty, waste and pollution, as well as animal cruelty make us all
> collaborators in environmental destruction. Especially Americans, who
> consume one quarter of the world's fossil fuels, and whose food
> industry "seeks to keep Americans in the dark."
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> […]
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Let the flaming begin!
--ravi
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