So, If you've ever peered in the sidebar, I'm sure you've noticed that I have an interest in politics. Although this isn't a political site in its aims, I'm going to periodically point out some articles from the news and the blogesphere. As usual with these sorts of posts, the comments provide you an opportunity to share articles you've come across.
Let the games begin!
Gottlieb has a piece at My Left Wing titled, "The Myth of America" which asks us to question some of the fundamental assumptions of our nation's typical narrative.
In the article, he quotes historian Howard Zinn who has a recent piece up on Alternet titled, "Impeachment by the People".
Alternet also has an article on my pet issue, vegetarianism, titled, "Vegetarian Is the New Prius".
Fox News, fair and balanced? You be the judge. Well aparently the managing director and chairman of Fox openly admits he tried to garner support for the Iraq war. Check out the article at ePluribus Media titled, "Murdoch Confesses To Propaganda On Iraq".
Didn't make it to the D.C. protests? Man Eegee has done some citizen journalism.
Also bloomster at the Daily Kos writes about an article, "The Twilight Zone / By the book" by Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy about checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
art crit paper: round-up
Posted by Dean at 10:16 PM
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The article on vegetarianism was good to see, Dean. Propagate it all you can. It is also something of a pet issue with me, as well. I've been a vegetarian for about 26 years. Although better global and personal health are surely important reasons, my primary reason is ethics/anticruelty.
As some of the comments to the article illustrate, logic and reasoning aside, most people find it difficult/ don't want to change. Things usually have to reach a crisis state that effects them personally before they consider altering their behaviour. Maybe that's just my natural pessimism/realism showing through, though.
Kudos to you for 26 years, that's an accomplishment.
I don't think it has to be your pessimism about people refusing to try out vegetarianism. It seems all to human to me actually, that people react against it. I mean, to tell someone that what they do on a regular basis causes much unnecessary suffering and is bad for the environment isn't a pleasnt experience. It's not suprising to me at all that people would be defensive about it.
It took me eight months after I thought vegetarianism was in the ethical right before I altered my diet.
Personally, I think what the movement needs is to blur the lines between the different diets. There's so much black and white thinking on the subject. It's as if you're a bad person or you're not, when in fact there is a lot of gray.
Most liberal oriented people would say they care about the environment, yet many drives cars as well. Does this make them bad people? No, not necessarily. Who knows, maybe they drive to work for Green Peace or something.
So with vegetarianism, I think it's the same way. If you absolutely are in love with chicken but think it's more humane to eat a vegetarian diet, why not eat chicken say a few times a month but be vegetarian otherwise. It's contributing far less to the suffering of animals than being an omnivore (eating meat and vegetables) daily.
And I've heard a number of times about people who were vegetarians until one day they felt like they had to eat meat. My internal reaction is usually something along these lines, "So you ate meat once, so what? Why does this mean you have to now eat it all the time?"
It's almost like a person belongs to a certain religion and they've sinned once so they quit it.
So, I think that's what the movement needs, blur these absolute labels. It's a matter of degree, how much or how little does one contributing to the suffering of animals.
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