RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
April 22, 2012 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2012 at 3:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Mea culpa, I assumed that a person who considered eating meat to be unethical or immoral would interpret such acts as those unbecoming of an ethical or moral person, IE derogatory.
As I've said in this thread. Your personal dietary choices are not under fire from me. Your support of any given system of production (insomuch as you would engage in it) is not under fire from me. Hell, I'd help you get started -become the change you wish to see-....for a price (kidding..lol, I'd help you from a distance for free). What -is- under fire from me is our practical ability to achieve these things, the whole lot of unconsidered effects of any given system that sees popular support from within what are largely social or political organizations at any given time (this sort of thing is cyclical, green manures are in, they're out, integrated ag is in, it's out, organics are in, they're out), and whether or not this choice you've made can be said to be applicable to us all, universal.
I look at all of this from the producers point of view. We have to be able to produce the product you want. We cannot give you a product which we are incapable of producing, no matter how much we might want to. Whatever moral or ethical considerations you have as a consumer must be weighed against the ability of the producer (at the very least, and I would go so far as to say that you might want to consider your fellow consumers before taking such absolutist positions when it comes to food).
As I've said in this thread. Your personal dietary choices are not under fire from me. Your support of any given system of production (insomuch as you would engage in it) is not under fire from me. Hell, I'd help you get started -become the change you wish to see-....for a price (kidding..lol, I'd help you from a distance for free). What -is- under fire from me is our practical ability to achieve these things, the whole lot of unconsidered effects of any given system that sees popular support from within what are largely social or political organizations at any given time (this sort of thing is cyclical, green manures are in, they're out, integrated ag is in, it's out, organics are in, they're out), and whether or not this choice you've made can be said to be applicable to us all, universal.
I look at all of this from the producers point of view. We have to be able to produce the product you want. We cannot give you a product which we are incapable of producing, no matter how much we might want to. Whatever moral or ethical considerations you have as a consumer must be weighed against the ability of the producer (at the very least, and I would go so far as to say that you might want to consider your fellow consumers before taking such absolutist positions when it comes to food).
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