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This was my very first rant, originally published 7/6/06 here on megnut.com (Meg is back to blogging if you didn't know, welcome back, Meg!). I sat down at my desk having read the Bruni agony that warm summer morning and it just came out. Has anything changed...?
This continual talk about the ethics of eating creatures that were once living is starting to get on my nerves. It’s not enough that those knuckleheads in Chicago and those sensitivos in California want to waste their time on the foie issue and the Whole Foods people figured out a cool marketing tool in playing to our arrogant anthropomorphist inclinations—giving lobsters spa treatment so we feel better about driving a knife through their skull. Brilliant.
What’s next, no oysters? No sir—they’re ...
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