Kasvissyönnist� viel�

n+1 argumentoi elegantin kiinnostavasti siitä, että kasvissyöntiaallot historiassa ovat yleensä liittyneet laajempaan yhteiskuntakriittiseen liikehdintään kuin eläinetiikkaan sinänsä.

Ehkä tämän laajemman kontekstin vuoksi kasvissyönti usein nykyisinkin ideologisoituu terveysvaikutuksia tai muuta mitattavaa pidemmälle.

“What The Bloodless Revolution makes clear is that vegetarianism has often been spurred by the appearance of an alternative society, which produced the imaginative capability necessary for people to work to transform their own societies.

In this sense, ethical vegetarianism has trouble succeeding as a material argument; it works better as an imaginative answer to an irrational system.”

“Vegetarianism retains one of the few mostly benign utopian impulses, a necessary fiction still around, in its insistence on an alternative society—an insistence that remains valid even when the utopia imagined by some vegetarians seems impossible, ecologically or otherwise.

It remains the strongest fortification against the great volume of misinformation: the insidious media campaign of special interests, telling us that meat-eating is necessary for the health of our civilization, for dominating masculinity, for mastery and sovereignty—that catastrophic mastery over the earth which offers up daily evidence of its diminishing returns.”

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