http://www.lasthours.org.uk/reviews/the-vegetarian-myth/ creative resistance Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:42:06 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.lasthours.org.uk/reviews/the-vegetarian-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-2893 chris Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:42:06 +0000 http://www.lasthours.org.uk/?p=5752#comment-2893 I'd just like to point out the problem with pasture fed animals is that they still need feeding in the winter. This brings us back to the futility of growing food for animals to consume when we can just eat it direct. Also, if aliens were to land on earth and felt the need to classify us, they would undoubtedly class us as herbivores - not omnivores as most people assume. Our bodies are not designed to kill or consume the flesh of other animals - from digestive sytems to the lack of carnivore teeth and claws, we are undoubtedly not cut out to kill. (See veggie vegan foundation - wheat eaters not meat eaters). Whilst I like Leira Keith and Derrick Jensen's writing style, I can't get along with this notion that you can kill animals with respect. It's a contradiction - there is no need to do it - the idea that the animal's parts all get's used so it's ok, holds no water with me. We can get everything we need from trees and plants, so to cut an animals throat needlessly is nothing but plain cruel - respect doesn't come near. Yes there are vegan products that have stupidly high carbon footprints but it doesn't have to be like that - forest gardening or just simple vegan allotment gardening whoops animal agricultures ass every time. I’d just like to point out the problem with pasture fed animals is that they still need feeding in the winter. This brings us back to the futility of growing food for animals to consume when we can just eat it direct.
Also, if aliens were to land on earth and felt the need to classify us, they would undoubtedly class us as herbivores – not omnivores as most people assume. Our bodies are not designed to kill or consume the flesh of other animals – from digestive sytems to the lack of carnivore teeth and claws, we are undoubtedly not cut out to kill. (See veggie vegan foundation – wheat eaters not meat eaters).
Whilst I like Leira Keith and Derrick Jensen’s writing style, I can’t get along with this notion that you can kill animals with respect. It’s a contradiction – there is no need to do it – the idea that the animal’s parts all get’s used so it’s ok, holds no water with me. We can get everything we need from trees and plants, so to cut an animals throat needlessly is nothing but plain cruel – respect doesn’t come near.
Yes there are vegan products that have stupidly high carbon footprints but it doesn’t have to be like that – forest gardening or just simple vegan allotment gardening whoops animal agricultures ass every time.

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