The Men and Women of
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United States of America
4/5/09
Jason S. Miller wrote:
Top of the morning to you!
I’m going to do a little dissection of your responses and then I’ve got some additional points to make.
You wrote:
It is no more cruel or unnatural for a human to eat meat than it is for a lion to eat meat.
Sure, I’ll concede that point, but only on the condition that we agree that all “meat” is fair game, including human flesh and everyone’s cats and dogs. As they say, “meat’s meat, so let’s eat.”
People do eat dogs and cats in certain parts of the world. As far as eating human flesh, it does not surprise us that you might suggest that. The lack of respect for other peoples property clearly shows the lack respect for many aspects of humans in general.
Man has been eating meat for 200,000+ years.
Ok, I’ll grant you that one too, but only so long as we agree that if we’re going to condone flesh consumption based on tradition, we also must agree that human slavery and abortion are socially acceptable, ethical practices because “Man” (you are indeed a patriarchal anthropocentric speciesist, aren’t you?) has been enslaving and aborting for thousands of years.
We never said anything about tradition. The same could be said for eating vegetables. Man has dieted on veggies for that long too. And please, do not try to change the subject of bringing in the subjects of slavery and abortion.
You wrote:
If you really believe that it is cruel to eat the flesh of another animal, then why do you not attack consumers that buy meat. The demand for meat is the reason that there is a supply. If it is wrong for a slaughterhouse to exist, then it is wrong for any of the consumption after the product leaves the slaughterhouse. Why not target consumers? Are they not a suitable target. You should destroy their homes and cars and other personal property, that is if you really believe your convictions. They would certainly be fair targets by your own reasoning.
If you really believe that those you have labeled as “terrorists” on your site are such a threat to “America,” why don’t you attack them yourself instead of goading the violent members of your sociopolitical persuasion into doing it?
To answer your question, beyond answering it with another question (as you have done with almost every one of my queries of you), as an abolitionist with an understanding of history and complex social dynamics, I recognize how asinine it would be for vegans and animal liberationists to begin attacking every person who purchases or consumes meat. Successful social movements (i.e. the abolition of human slavery and women’s suffrage) were long and arduous struggles involving multiple tactics on multiple fronts carried out by people of varying temperaments, capacities, ages, geographical locations, resources, races, educations, sexes, degrees of courage, etc. Every abolitionist and suffragist didn’t practice violence, but some did. And they certainly weren’t idiotic enough to run around attacking every individual who supported slavery or opposed a woman’s right to vote. When they engaged in violence, they attacked the system and those in power.
