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From: ray@vger.UUCP (Ray Swartz)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: Evolution
Message-ID: <363@vger.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 09:58:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 09:58:40 1986
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Organization: UC Santa Cruz, CIS Dept.
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Summary: Passing Fad?

In article <1538@decwrl.DEC.COM>, curran@barnum.DEC (Karen Curran) writes:
> 
> I've been an observer in this newsgroup for several months
> now, and would like to thank everyone for the interesting
> discussions on "eating meat".
> I'm not a vegetarian but almost one.
>... 
> I'd like to agree with Mr Cramer's friend, It's just a passing fad.
> 

One could make the same arguments about nuclear weapons concluding
that they are simply a "passing fad."  Well, that's all well and
good but how are we to build a world that is beyond such "fads?"

Frankly, I think people who admit to being "almost vegetarians"
impress me as much as someone who is almost "against nuclear weapons":
we shouldn't use such bombs most of the time and when we do its
just the small ones.  

Make a commitment!  The only part of the universe you can control
is what you do!  The world will be what its inhabitants are...

On the other hand, maybe the Earth is just a "passing fad," too.

Ray Swartz