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On Indigenous People and Animals

Animal Person

God thinks vegetarians are evil, and we want to please god. Ingesting suffering can't possibly be good for anyone's karma. A disturbing trend I've seen among the used-to-be-called-New-Age , but now called "spiritual" people, is the co-opting of all things Native American (both North and South).

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. We know that animals suffer as well.