I married a meat eater

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I for one could never love a meat eater. It seems to me that what you've done,

for purposes of convenience, is to completely deny

that your mate has no concern whatever for the lives and rights of other

sentient beings and no appreciation for the fact that all life is precious and

connected and is that he is basically a savage (as are all meat eaters). You've

completely compromised your values because to try and find a vegetarian, or even

more difficult, a vegan mate would have been infinitely more difficult as those

of us who choose not to compromise have discovered. How could you love a person,

you being a vegan, who does not share your outrage at the murder and torture of

billions of beautiful, innocent beings and in fact participates in it? If this

isn't a sellout, I don't know what is. Sorry but it isn't just a matter of bing

different. It's the difference between being a murderer and being a person who

is trying to stop the murderer from killing. I always find amazing the degree

to which human nature can allow people to rationalize and deny anything and

everything no matter how glaringly hypocritical.

Brad

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Trusty, Hannah

EBbrewpunx ;

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:53 AM

RE: Digest Number 395

 

 

I just have to say.....I married a meat-eater and things are great between us

(granted I don't cook meat and he seems to like my vegan meals and he seems to

be thinking about becoming a vegetarian-ovo,lacto). Still if he never changes,

I love him just the same. I understand the want to share your life with another

vegan, but from my experience I would have lost out on a lot if I had refused to

see a meat eater. But then again, he's Baptist and I'm Wiccan so I guess we

just like being different.

 

Hannah