AR LTE published in DMN Gives Voice to the Voiceless

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On 3/9/08, DMN published Rod Dreher's soulless op-ed ode "No Meat to a Higher Purpose" (link follows). http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-dreher_09edi.ART.State.Edition1.447a6ab.htmlThe AR community responded with many Letters to the Editor. The DMN published one of our letters on Friday, 3/14/09. Each person who wrote contributed to our success in giving voice to the voiceless. All who embrace compassion are strongly urged to write whenever such an opportunity arises. We all have the same amount of time. What you do with that time is what counts. Bravo to Dr. Pippin and to everyone else wrote to speak for the animals. See Dr. Pippin's published LTE (below). Margaret http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/letters/stories/DN-friletters_0314edi.ART.State.Edition1.464e5a3.html

Go vegan, avoid carnage Re: "How I became a reluctant vegan – I'm madly carnivorous but am giving up meat and dairy for Lent, says Rod Dreher," Sunday Points. Mr. Dreher's column about giving up meat for Lent is a revealing but inconsistent combination of mea culpa, moral disengagement and apology. While describing how animals suffer and die for his meat addiction, he both decries and s to the feckless rationalization that perpetuates the killing of sentient creatures for nothing more than their taste. Mr. Dreher wears his religiosity on his sleeve and wields it as a weapon in his columns. It is fascinating to see him twist in the wind while trying to shape his cafeteria Christianity into a distorted justification of his need to kill God's creations for his own pleasure. There is no ethically sound meat, and you know it. Go vegan, or live with the deceit. John Pippin, Dallas