Post on Rod Dreher's Blog - RE: 4 AR LTE Published in ONE Weekend in DMN

[Guest guest]

If you have not yet written a LTE on Rod Dreher's op-ed " No Meat to a

Higher Purpose or How I Became a Reluctant Vegan, " you may still

politely express your opinion on his blog by going to:

 

 

http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/reluctant-vegan/

 

 

 

, Margaret Morin

<dogs_good wrote:

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> On Sunday, March 15, we got three more letters to the editor

published in the DMN presenting the compassionate perspective (see

below). As we know, the editorial page is the second most read page

of the newspaper.

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> Letters to the editor are about the only media animal rights is able

to get in D/FW. The animals have only a few of us to speak for them,

so every letter counts. Whether your letter was published or not,

your effort helped us to get these letters into print.

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> My most sincere thanks to all who wrote. It is my hope that every

city organizes a letter writing campaign as it is an effective way to

give voice to the voiceless.

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> Margaret

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/letters/stories/DN-3p_onp\

oints_0316edi.ART.State.Edition1.45f1719.html

> Sunday letters: On Points12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, March 16, 2008On

points Don't go back to meat ...

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> Re: " How I became a reluctant vegan – I'm madly carnivorous but am

giving up meat and dairy for Lent, says Rod Dreher, " last Sunday Points.

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> While I am pleased that Mr. Dreher has evaluated his lifestyle, I

find it hard to comprehend how, after knowing the stunningly cruel

facts of murdering animals to eat their flesh, he can plan to return

to that lifestyle in a few weeks.

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> As socially and environmentally aware consumers become more

prevalent, they become part of the solution. In 2008 there's no just

no excuse to pay others to murder animals. I hope he will reconsider

his choice and retain a cruelty-free lifestyle – his health, the

environment, and certainly the animals, will thank him.

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> Mark Peters, Bedford

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> ... the planet will thank you

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> I thank The Dallas Morning News and Rod Dreher for his timely op-ed.

It is essential to the survival of our species and the planet that we

have this dialogue and resolve it without delay.

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> However, I found Mr. Dreher's bemoaning our " moral and spiritual

lassitude and spoiled child ethic " to be disingenuous. He states he is

aware of the sin humans commit when we support the almost unimaginably

horrific abuse of animals in factory farms, which is how the vast

majority of meat is brought to market. But, he goes on to say he will

" madly " go back to eating meat on Easter.

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> To kill a sentient being simply so that one may savor the taste of

its flesh, which we euphemistically call bacon, with one's eggs is in

no way morally responsible to my mind.

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> Margaret Morin, founder, Vegetarian Network of Dallas, Plano

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> ... and his taste would adjust

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> Rod Dreher's reasons for giving up meat for Lent are noble, and I'm

sure from his point of view giving up meat permanently seems hard to

do; however, given enough time, his taste would adjust to a vegan

diet. Taste is mostly a matter of conditioning.

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> If instead of eating meat, our ancestors ate a pure, cruelty-free

diet of nuts, beans, grains, vegetables and fruit, we would be

horrified if someone gave us a bloody piece of meat and told us to eat it.

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> We'd probably smack 'em.

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> Lyssa Justas, Dallas

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> Margaret Morin <dogs_good wrote:

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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).

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-dreher_\

09edi.ART.State.Edition1.447a6ab.html

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> The 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.

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> 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.

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> Bravo to Dr. Pippin and to everyone else wrote to speak for the

animals. See Dr. Pippin's published LTE (below). Margaret

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/letters/stories/DN-frilet\

ters_0314edi.ART.State.Edition1.464e5a3.html

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> Go vegan, avoid carnage

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> 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.

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> Mr. Dreher's column about giving up meat for Lent is a revealing

but inconsistent combination of mea culpa, moral disengagement and

apology.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> There is no ethically sound meat, and you know it. Go vegan, or

live with the deceit.

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> John Pippin, Dallas

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