(June 4, 2013 at 8:40 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Why I'm Not a VeganBasically this says "We're all part of a cycle of life and death". Okay, nobody questions that, but more often than not that is just a defeatist phrase that people use so they can lean back and just do whatever the fuck comes to mind.
There is a real choice for everyone, which is between going around clubbing everyone in reach and causing the maximum amount of pain and going the opposite direction. On the one end of the spectrum you have Stalin and on the other Buddha. That's a real choice everyone has and you can't deny this with your nebulous, esoteric babble about "it's all a cycle of life and death".
I'm not denying veganism practiced on a large scale flys in the face of todays way of doing agriculture, it'd turn everything upside down and inside out (in many respects a very good thing) and there would be plenty of new issues cropping up. But I claim none of those issues are insurmountable and all of them are much better than the grim gulag reality of today.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.