From: ra-AT-alor.univ-montp3.fr (Ronald Creagh, Moderator, Research on Anarchism List)
Date: 27 Jan 1997 12:04:48 UTC   (08:04:48 AM in author's locale)
To: RA-L-AT-bred.univ-montp3.fr

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 15:38:07 -0800
>From: "Brent Peterson" <crash-AT-cyberspace.com>
At 10:17 PM 1/26/97 0100, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:07:58 0100
>>From: Francois.Coquet-AT-univ-rennes1.fr (Francois Coquet)
>
>Hello,
>
>A common topic among anarchists is to avoid useless debates. Here it
>appears that few people on this list are willing to claim their right to
>eat meat, however I am pretty sure that many more here as anywhere believe
>that it's a right, even among vegans.
> One reason why is perhaps that they think it does not even deserve a
>debate, and I would agree with them : I am always frightened of this idea
>to bring a "new mankind" purely vegan, when billions of people in the world
>eat -or would like to eat- meat : it makes me think of Pol Pot or
>Ceaucescu.
>
>So, and sorry to appear as the brutal man with no care of animals (which,
>BTW, is false, but no matter) : I feel useful, after some 10 posts of
>antispecist propaganda here, to recall that it's both the perfect right of
>anyone to be a vegan and the perfect freedom of everyone to choose what
>he/she wants to eat. Anarchy may be concerned by ecology, but not by mystic
>thoughts on what we should be allowed to eat or not.
>
>Salut et fraternite,
>Francois
>>
its not about being told what to eat or not. it's about respecting life.

tyler
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impose a pattern on people and detract from there
individuality; above all, it seams to me, they
detract from their humanity."
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