More Militant Vegans, Less Ethical Butchers (Mickey Z.)

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Nov. 11, 2009 -- A friend of mine recently brought to my attention a former vegan who has now re-invented himself as the "Ethical Butcher" (a title right up there with Peacekeeper missiles, limited autonomy, and military intelligence). The butcher writes: "After 14 years as a vegetarian, a few of those as a quite 'militant' vegan, I became a butcher. The factors that went into me taking the position are many, but the result was maybe quite predictable. Within a month I was a full-fledged meat eater. What has not changed is my passion for the welfare of animals. Through my work as a butcher and chef, I now see a more direct way to influence and work for change in the meat industry and to improve the quality of life for all of the animals we rely on for food."

Such backlash in the face of compassionate evolution is not uncommon. For example, just as more and more women begin to challenge gender roles, the patriarchal culture countered with Howard Stern, Maxim, and Spike TV. But I digress…

Becoming a butcher in the name of animal welfare is like joining the Marines to promote peace. What's next, the Ethical Executioner with his "passion" for the "welfare" of prisoners? Surely, he'd just be choosing a "more direct way to influence and work for change," following the lead of his butcher comrade.

In a society less and less capable of critical, independent thought, this pro-meat character will probably be widely praised as the antidote to "militant" vegans. You know, the food Nazis. By current standards, you could pack a calf into a veal crate or pump food down a goose's gullet or grind up live male chicks to fertilize your fields and run no risk of being called militant. For that matter, you can clear cut forests, blow off mountain tops in search of coal, and drop white phosphorous on villages filled with brown children and garner virtually no attention at all…let alone be labeled a militant.

Choose a lifestyle of compassion and logic, speak out against vivisection, or protest the use of fur? You, my friends, are a worthy of a Hitler mustache.

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[spiritual_gunfighter]

1. Ethical Butcher!

Hahahahahaha!!!

[Craftsman]

2. Honest congreesman

[spiritual_gunfighter]

3. Corporate Democrat

Oh wait...

[JackintheGreen]

4. If your ethics do not prevent your eating meat

why can't you butcher meat ethically? Either position (the implied "meat-eating is intrinsically unethical" and its obverse) requires presuppositions about basic ethics. Once those are established, it is absolutely possible to act in all ways ethically re: butchering.

[Recursion]

5. "like joining the Marines to promote peace"

I joined the Marines to promote peace. And I support local ranchers (and eat the meat they harvest) to help improve the conditions of animals.

Is this sarcasm or is the author really saying those are contradictions?