Saturday, 16 January 2010
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer?s Eating Animals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_animals) is being published in the UK in March. Pretty timely for me; the arguments for turning vegetarian are stacking up at the moment and I suspect by March I won?t need much pushing.
I?ve never been a vegetarian, which I think surprises some people. I?m a girl, I love animals, I?m fairly left-leaning and I had a troubled adolescence ? classic ingredients really. I have played with the idea on several occasions but always fallen short of making that step. I?d like to say that I had really justified my omnivourousness to myself but in recent years I?ve realised that my half-hearted arguments about the incompleteness of the vegetarian diet were just that. Laziness and a lack of willingness to submit to inconvenience have taken me so far, not because the arguments for vegetarianism have been (for me) compelling, but because I was unwilling to research them properly.
A friend once pointedly told me that for every gram of cocaine sold in the UK someone in the developing nations involved in it?s production died. I doubt the exactitude of this fact but the fact remains ? non-medicinal drugs are totally unnecceasry luxury of those who can afford to subsidise the killing of other human beings for their pleasure. Meat is a totally unnecceasry luxury for those who can afford it. I suspect that when the cost is laid out for me my conclusions will be inevitable?
More to follow, I guess?
I?ve never been a vegetarian, which I think surprises some people. I?m a girl, I love animals, I?m fairly left-leaning and I had a troubled adolescence ? classic ingredients really. I have played with the idea on several occasions but always fallen short of making that step. I?d like to say that I had really justified my omnivourousness to myself but in recent years I?ve realised that my half-hearted arguments about the incompleteness of the vegetarian diet were just that. Laziness and a lack of willingness to submit to inconvenience have taken me so far, not because the arguments for vegetarianism have been (for me) compelling, but because I was unwilling to research them properly.
A friend once pointedly told me that for every gram of cocaine sold in the UK someone in the developing nations involved in it?s production died. I doubt the exactitude of this fact but the fact remains ? non-medicinal drugs are totally unnecceasry luxury of those who can afford to subsidise the killing of other human beings for their pleasure. Meat is a totally unnecceasry luxury for those who can afford it. I suspect that when the cost is laid out for me my conclusions will be inevitable?
More to follow, I guess?
Back
Hello anyone who still bothers following this. No apologies and no surprises. Last year was a hard year and I didn?t have the emotional energy to give to being imaginative here as well. Anyway, life is brighter this side of the decade divide so I will be blogging a bit more often.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Nice Mice
It is nice waking to hear my two cats playing under the bed. Not so nice when I realise they are playing with a half dead mouse which I will inevitably have to retreive and put out of it's misery. I thought I'd managed to get around the whole complicit cruelty to small animals implication of cat ownership when i discovered that K&P love non-applicator tampons. And I mean LOVE - could spend hours chasing one around the house. Unfortunately, it seems they've wised up to my little scheme - a bird and three little baby mice so far this week :(
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Why Haven't I Been Blogging
Why, Twitter of course! Here's what I've been blathering about:
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