Theos-Talk Archives (August 1999 Message tt00067)

I hope I did not misunderstand what Aiden was saying.
It it the well informed personal decision tobecome a vegetarian that is
bound to stick. 
I hope we will see a future where vegetarianism is the norm and the social
norm.

mkr
At 08:22 AM 08/28/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Ramadoss wrote:
>
>>Individual opinions are ok.
>>
>>While no one sees the likelyhood of everyone become a vegetarian, (as
>>another writer mentioned - I think Art)  I do not understand humane killing
>>for food. Any one who has witnessed firsthand the cruelty that goes in
>>killing is likely to understand vegetarianism.
>>
>>For years, many slaughterhouses used to take high schoolers on a tour. Many
>>many students, after they saw firsthand the cruelty involved became
>>vegetarians. Nowadays, most slaughterhouses have stopped the tours because
>>they found it to be counter productive.
>>
>>mkr
>
>I think Ramadoss the opinion which you refer to may have been Aiden's ....
>My view was that vegetarianism should be standard recommended and
>encouraged with the hope through education that meat consumption will fall
>off... Aiden suggested humane killing for food. I can appreciate his point
>as the slaughter house mass killing of animals to me is unsupported. I
>don't think that's what Aiden would advocate anyway.  - Art
>

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