Pollan Wept
March 10, 2009 - 3:45 pm
Irradiated by LabRat
Irradiated by LabRat
Through a lengthy chain of links and tips whose most recent link for me was Alan:
I wasn’t able to find the original attribution. It may well be apocryphal, originally part of a satire newspaper. But it’s also horrifyingly PLAUSIBLE. I can’t count the number of times I’ve dealt with someone squeamish about hunting by pointing out that putting a bullet through an animal born in the wild that’s roamed, foraged, mated, and lived is a better option from the animal’s point of view than hiring someone else to kill an animal that’s led a vastly more limited and sometimes frightening and dirty existence…. and had them go “Wow, I never thought of it that way!”
March 10th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Stores can clone meat now?
Kewl.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:22 am
That excerpt was so bad, I think you gave me CANCER!
(Paraphrased with apologies to Calculon.)
March 15th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Recently at a memorial service, an acquaintance said how cruel and vile it was that another person at the table had ruthlessly gunned down rabbits for food. She then tucked into a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken. I giggled.