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See, I looked there cause I'll totally pay, but I cannot see a "add to cart" anywhere unless I've gone blind. That's a line, aka a trend. Stick a QED in it folks, were done. Now, where'd I put the Twinkies... It helps when economic factors -- produce cooked at home is cheap -- are the primary motivation. It also helps to really like oatmeal cause you'll be eating a crapton of it :D To be fair, cardboard is basically cellulose, of which I eat absurd amounts. With blueberries. That's the trick. Had a Beyond Burger a while ago. Thought the texture and taste was more like sausage. So a local coffee shop sold me a Beyond egg and sausage sandwich, which is basically perfect unless you're a vegan. I suspect the sodium is still through the roof, but I'll bet many people cannot tell the difference. I have read Animal Liberation, and loads of other Singer works. I honestly don't see how Veganism necessarily follows from any of them. Veganism is a morally absolutist position, where as Singer (at least when he wrote Animal Lib) approached the problem from a consequentialist perspective. Thus, he concludes that most animal agriculture and scientific testing is unnecessary and immoral, but he cannot absolutely condemn all such practices, as in principle there can be some situation where the consequences justify them. He's going to hold your feet to the fire to demonstrate that justification, but he'll hear you out. By contrast, a Vegan will reject the notion of justification from the start, as an inherent and insurmountable rules violation (don't use sentient species as a means, period) In most day to day concerns, he's effectively a vegan, but in philosophical terms, that's a clear line in the sand. So yeah, how one reads Animal Lib and arrives at a morally absolutist position...is bizarre. Someone wasn't reading very carefully. EDIT: or, to be more fair, Animal Lib was a popular work that just assumed all the dry and boring philosophical stuff as given. Reading that philosophical stuff first, to establish the proper context, would help. Mount Seymour, Eryndlynd, Lord Dominator, Darths and Droids, and 3 othersTurbeaux, Kinectia, and Sean fiobha |