(January 18, 2014 at 6:03 am)Aractus Wrote: Here's the same question I always ask all tree-hugging hippie vegans - do you wear synthetic clothing that's bad for the environment, or do you wear natural fibres that are "bad for the animals" - wool, leather, silk, etc?
That's a lot of stereotypes rolled into one, there. First of all, I'm a moderate capitalist business owner (small business, not a big CEO or anything) and a vegetarian. I do not go around wearing hemp or trying to balance my four psychic winds or whatever. I do try to avoid leather products, though if accepting a gift is likely to cause outrage or offense, I'll still take it. I prefer cotton, but am sometimes guilty of wearing wool. Cotton mittens make better rags than hand-warmers, for example.
I've also met hippies who are rabid carnivores. They'll tell you that eating meat that's as fresh as possible helps them connect to the spirit of the Earth or something.
One thing I can say for sure is that when you get loaded words like you're using, like "tree-hugging vegans," logic has stopped and cheap rhetoric has begun. And that's weak.
