I think a lot of jokes at the expense of vegetarians are the result of a guilty conscience. I have never seen a coherent ethical argument in favor of eating meat (as opposed to practical ones). Doesn't bother me much though, since I don't have a problem acknowledging that I participate in evil.
--- On Wed, 4/15/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> From: ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] good morning my fellow ecosystems
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 11:30 AM
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Miles
> Jackson wrote:
> > I know some of the vegetarians on the list have
> ethical objections to killing cows and pigs for food, but if
> I were forced to choose between killing a cow and killing
> one of these microbial communities, the choice would be
> easy. The cow's dead meat.
>
>
>
> Cute.
>
> --ravi
>
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