tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602396110338715183.post2040113875061960602..comments2023-06-17T09:58:43.729-04:00Comments on Animal Writes: Mentioning "Vegan" in your profile, and why it results in debates, attacks and general crazinessJenny Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18216714991878395078noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602396110338715183.post-43084646268273645622010-03-21T14:02:44.593-04:002010-03-21T14:02:44.593-04:00Thanks for posting this heated exchange. I agree w...Thanks for posting this heated exchange. I agree with pretty much everything you say and love your insights. The only thing I want to question, partly to be provocative but also to raise what I think is an important question, is whether the conversation was worth having in the first place. I think one of the most challenging yet vital tasks as any sort of activist is to decide which conversations to have and which not to have. It's really easy to get caught up in lengthy, draining conversations with those who will never really listen and in doing so consume time that might be better spent reaching out to those who may actually care. I don't think it's my place to judge whether this was a worthy convo, but I'm wondering if you think it was.Ben_Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03895098427762039892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602396110338715183.post-78207727028849058922010-03-20T13:52:44.494-04:002010-03-20T13:52:44.494-04:00First of all, I would like to say that I am vegan....First of all, I would like to say that I am vegan. However, I don't agree that killing animals is inherently "inhumane" (which is itself a speciesist term). I believe in euthanasia, although I don't think that PETA's killing of shelter animals has much to do with euthanasia. It's more like a cull. Industrialized nations do the same thing to the nations they have impoverished: population control.<br /><br />Animals cannot consent to euthanasia, this is true. But neither can a human in a vegetative state. There was a guy who recently came out of about 26 years in a conscious vegetative state. What I am opposed to is fake euthanasia.Luellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00756410146756239731noreply@blogger.com