RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
May 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2012 at 2:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The trouble is that being a vegetarian will not address the issues you think it will. This all stems from our naivety (by and large) with regards to how food is produced, where, and why any given practice is engaged in. For an easy example, most of the lines of conversation in this thread against omnivorism boil down to suffering (necessary or otherwise, whatever-the-hell that means). Trouble is that we seem to be so enamored with our ability to reduce our own personal suffering that we forget the means by which we accomplish this (essentially by increasing the "suffering" of others). We are not as competent as many of us have led ourselves to believe in this arena. Some living thing somewhere will suffer regardless of what you eat, all that remains is to decide which things you don't wish to include in your list of creatures that "should not suffer".
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