Fw: Vegan School

[Guest guest]

Below is the response that I submitted to Letters to the Editor about the

article about the Vegan School I posted to BAVeg a few minutes ago. I also

emailed it to Debra Saunders and Joe Hayes, in case they don't print it.

 

I didn't really address the fact that Saunders was trying to imply that the

animal rights activists were tricking parents, who would only be against

violence against humans, into sending their children there. But since she

started talking about " bombing " as though the people creating this school go out

and bomb buildings on the weekends, I figured I'd sink to her level.

 

I'm not opposed to a charter school that blatantly focuses on non-violence

towards animals, and therefore has no possibility of deception towards any

unsuspecting parents. And how does she know that anyone is trying to trick

people into sending their kids there? Are they? Someone should write a letter

focused on that, in my opinion.

 

Jack

 

 

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Jack Norris

 

 

To the Editor,

 

In Debra Saunders editorial, " Vegan elementary "

(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/26/ED\

G562HB311.DTL) she seems quite agitated by the idea of a school that promotes

compassion towards animals. She seems to have some sort of anti-animal rights

agenda given her characterization of animal rights activists as people who " bomb

buildings and intimidate workers " which she probably very well knows are a

miniscule proportion of animal rights advocates -- well less than 1%. If she

doesn't know it, she should do some fact checking before writing irresponsible

editorials.

 

Saunders quotes Joe Hayes, school board trustee, as saying, " As a taxpayer, I

want my money to go to public education, but I don't necessarily want it to go

to splinter groups. " Well, I'm also a taxpayer, and my money goes to a whole lot

of things I don't want it to go to, and among them is the mutilation and killing

of animals through farm subsidies and medical research.

 

Most schools have an anti-animal rights agenda by promoting a world view that

it's okay to kill animals for whatever humans happen to want. Opposing views are

typically not allowed in the schools as it angers parents when these views,

which are quite persuasive to children who are not set in their ways or making

money off harming animals, spread resulting in other kids no longer wanted to

eat animals. Because these views are often ridiculed by authority, kids who feel

a certain way about animals are marginalized.

 

I commend the people opening this school to give a haven for children who

believe in non-violence towards all creatures, not just humans.

 

Sincerely,

 

Jack Norris, RD

Vegan Outreach

PO Box 4305

Davis, CA 95617

916-375-0014

 

www.veganoutreach.org