I wish the NYT had asked Andrew Kirschner to write this post on their editorial page. Aaron Carroll’s opinion piece should never have been approved by a media giant that proclaims itself the newspaper of record. I could not have done a better addressing the false statements myself โ actually I would probably have lost myself to rants and ravings, so my grateful appreciation goes to Kirschner’s Korner for countering so much misinformation.
Tag: climate change
A Vegan in the Agora
Hello all and each ๐ Here is yet another post on a theme of vega..
nism from a self-righteous, self-serving wild-eyed V-Gun. Raving screeds spewing from an amino-acid-deprived, protein-starved snot brain…
…n perspective of an agoraphobic in the marketplace (agora is the Greek word for market). I’ve a field trip suggestion โ be you agoraphobic or no.
Three steps:
- Stop by your local รผbermarket with a weekly grocery list in hand.
- Encircle each line item on the list that contains animal-based ingredients: stuffs like meat, egg, dairy, variously mechanically separated body parts. Check product labels if applicable.
- Take note of the contents of grocery carts in your vicinity…
and upend any cart that doesn’t meet your approval. Glare threateningly at innocent grocery shoppers โ including their youngsters โ and arrange a funeral pyre in accordance with Hindu-friendly ceremonies for the dearly departed…
Did you know that junk food is subsidized by the USDA? The lobbies stuffing the rear, front and suit pockets in federal, state and local government offices include small-scale outfits such as Monsanto and Tyson. A merger a year keeps the arrears away.
Did you know that the North Koreans could use a few good fools? Sounds like a place you would find less threatening.
Global warming did not trend until the Industrial Revolution started spewing spent fossil fuels into that thin bubble of air blanketing the Earth. Perhaps there is a deity who could bring around a replacement planet? There is that. I’ve heard somewhere that a reduction in meat-baseless eating could help.
Vegans are at the brunt-end of many jokes, but the jokesters seem to tread a bit nervously these days โ we’re still outnumbered 33 to 1, but our numbers are not decreasing.
You need to lighten up a little, Bill. We hope these help:
Q: Why did the tofu cross the road?
A: To prove he wasn’t chicken.
Q: What did one vegetarian say to the other vegetarian?
A: We have to stop meating like this.
Q: Why do people kill animals?
A: Fur convenience steak.
There are more where those came from, but just remember: vegans are the joke, Bill.
The animal atop the food chain believes itself ordained to husband lesser sentient creatures to the highest bidder. All other species get to exist at the whim of human appetite and fashion. Is there anything questionable about this?
Thanks for reading.
The Green Sheep in the Family
Herewith a set of considerations introduced more than four year ago. It is, therefore, well-neigh time to tie a few strings in the midst of many threads. Encouragementย from the inimitable Katrina of New Zealand.
A Bold Woman who has brought us a grand thought issued by David Bowie: Katrina.
“Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been.”
Full disclosure first โ I am the green sheep in the family: one of “those vegans” who have the temerity to speak up for “others” โ more similar to us than not โ who have no voice in determining their own destiny. Today I focus on the multiple billions ย living in camps
By this time next year 70 billion will have lived from birth to death in one of those facilities. Factory friendly farms.
Well there must be a good reason then.
Many reasons, but each is specious, spurious and tawdry. We deny inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to “the others.” Is that ethical behavior? Do animalsย volunteer their own destruction?
Bill, they outnumber us 10 to 1. So it looks like we are the ones endangered here. Do you call that fair? Let us tell you something. life isn’t fair and freedom fries aren’t free. It’s a wonder that any of us are left standing, actually. So it’s self-defense, us or them.
But can we talk about something a little less depressing?
Sorry. Let’s talk about optimal health, vibrance and well-being. In short: those habits that produce a healthy body. There are many ways to become ill: some involve luck, some are viral/bacterial, some are self-induced. I’ve tried many ill-advised styles of life.
To quote my own father “I would rather be rich and healthy than sick and poor.”
Majority rule then. You vegans comprise 3% of the eating public. Why force bunny-salads down our throats? We are not geese. We are designed to eat meat. Some call it stewardship in a dominion over all life. What’s wrong with being top dog? Beats low dog.
3% of human eaters are vegan, 3% of human scientists deny climate-change, 3% is a good guess at the percentage of lifeforms that would survive an extinction event โ asteroidal, nuclear or climatological.
Detox is tough because meat is a powerful addiction that is socially acceptable and culturally sanctioned. Secreting toxins is wearying โ so is withdrawal from other addicting chemicals. We are living and breathing chemical factories, walking bags of chemicals.
Some very good news: craving for meat and meat byproducts metamorphoses into revulsion.
Why are you vegans always so negative?
We aren’t. And being a green sheep is a very good thing.
Thanks for reading.
Election Seasoned: Warmed Over Leftovers
Trump and Clinton to Planet: Drop Dead.
Intergenerational theft is as real as it is ignored by the thieves busily eviscerating the planet, busily enjoying what they had coming to them, what they deserve. Too late to change, too set in their ways. Small voice: climate change is an existential threat that leads to an extinction event. It began with the age of carbon. Carbon aging.
Joining with vegans is the absolute least that boomers owe every sentient being on Earth. Animals with eyes have complex nervous systems. Identify with them, you are no better than they. Billions of hamburgers already served. Thank you for your patronage.
The unthinkable revealed: the food chain exploits with abandon. More dollars in your bank account means more abandon. Eat, drink and… The food chain chains slaves, and they are worn each year by Jacob Marley. Break the chain before Christmas Eve. Free all slaves and free yourself by doing so.
But. Everyone has a big but. Tell me about your big but. B12, top of the pyramid (scheme), omnivore by design, Norman Rockwell, ordained tradition, the way it is. I crave, therefore I am. Add your own in the space provided.
But if you vegans would kindly shut up and sit down, love it or leave itย and may the door slam your butt, you sickly self-righteous bastards. You are butting in but good. The devil take you.
In a German youth hostel in 1972 I met a fellow USA passport holder, he was about twenty years old, as was I. He said that it was already too late in his life to change his ways, that he just needed to have all he could consume. His suggestionย โ indoctrinate the “youth” to become Earth friendlier, he was too old, too set in his ways.
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