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  • No one is *really* a utilitarian when it comes to "veganism"

    From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 20 13:38:00 2016
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.food.vegan

    Very good piece here about Sam Harris, the pop public intellectual, who
    keeps yammering in podcasts and elsewhere about how he really "ought" to
    be a "vegan" because of his utilitarian unease over CAFOs, but who
    always reveals that he harbors some absolutist belief in the intrinsic wrongness of meat consumption.

    http://www.ethosreview.org/intellectual-spaces/samharris/

    This is another contribution from Rhys Southan, the ex-"vegan" who
    operates the excellent "Let Them Eat Meat" blog -
    http://letthemeatmeat.com/ "vegans" - whiny bastards one and all -
    always wrongly call Southan an "anti-vegan." He is nothing of the kind.
    He is not opposed to "vegans" for exercising their choice of what to
    eat. He is opposed to the bankrupt "vegan" belief system, and he does a
    good job of elaborating on its huge defects.

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  • From Ted&Alice@21:1/5 to Rudy Canoza on Sun Aug 21 00:17:23 2016
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.food.vegan

    Rudy Canoza <[email protected]> wrote:
    Very good piece here about Sam Harris, the pop public intellectual, who
    keeps yammering in podcasts and elsewhere about how he really "ought" to
    be a "vegan" because of his utilitarian unease over CAFOs, but who always reveals that he harbors some absolutist belief in the intrinsic wrongness
    of meat consumption.

    http://www.ethosreview.org/intellectual-spaces/samharris/

    This is another contribution from Rhys Southan, the ex-"vegan" who
    operates the excellent "Let Them Eat Meat" blog -
    http://letthemeatmeat.com/ "vegans" - whiny bastards one and all -
    always wrongly call Southan an "anti-vegan." He is nothing of the kind.
    He is not opposed to "vegans" for exercising their choice of what to eat.
    He is opposed to the bankrupt "vegan" belief system, and he does a good
    job of elaborating on its huge defects.

    I admire your exceptional analytical abilities, Rudy. Thanks so much for sharing your intelligent insights with the rest of us.

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