http://thacant.com/cons/what-are-you-thankful-for/ Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://thacant.com/cons/what-are-you-thankful-for/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Charlie Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:29:53 +0000 http://thacant.com/?p=903#comment-178 hmm...interesting. i still don't know how i feel about veganism, though. having animals on a farm is good for a multitude of things (weed control, fertilizer, etc.), and products like milk and eggs are possible to obtain while keeping the animals' lives intact. not to mention, cheese is delicious. i think that a more effective way of encouraging veganism is not to tell people that they are horrendously immoral, like steiner did, but rather to tell people about the environmental and health benefits of forgoing meat. positive reinforcement is much more powerful and permanent tool than ethical finger-wagging. hmm…interesting. i still don’t know how i feel about veganism, though. having animals on a farm is good for a multitude of things (weed control, fertilizer, etc.), and products like milk and eggs are possible to obtain while keeping the animals’ lives intact. not to mention, cheese is delicious. i think that a more effective way of encouraging veganism is not to tell people that they are horrendously immoral, like steiner did, but rather to tell people about the environmental and health benefits of forgoing meat. positive reinforcement is much more powerful and permanent tool than ethical finger-wagging.

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