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Date: 12 April 2011 09:02:41
I used to be a veggie, but then I stopped. Well, I say I used to be a veggie - I was a teenage demi-version who still ate fish. Well, I had to eat something. Today I wandered the scenic way into town with Third Party past the cattle, sheep and lambs that have entered the fields since I last decided to walk that way and thought back to those young idealistic days.
Third Party started off by saying she was really no longer sure if she wanted to eat meat....these things had eyes, (no way Sherlock). But then she said the thing that really got to me. When I argued back that you don't see the eyes in the shop she claimed I have become disconnected from the food chain. This made me stop and think, have I?
Being Third Party, my budding philosopher/ theologian, she didn't leave it there. She proceeded to do a spot of revision by having a discussion on the differences between dominion and stewardship and the work of Peter Singer. I resisted the temptation of just turning round and asking if she enjoyed the bacon butty I'd done her for breakfast.
I recognise that our meat consumption needs to go down slightly, for environmental reasons. However, I am not about to go back to being one of the meat is murder brigade; I'll leave that to the young idealists.