Wednesday 9 November 2011 - Enquiry Topic

Vegetarianism & Environmental Ethics

As you can see there's a link beneath the post title above. I'm not recommending anyone watch this film, as it isn't pleasant viewing. That said it seems to me a pretty good account of what happens around the world and the manner in which all of our supermarkets and shops veritably overflow with animal-based product. It is emotive I grant you but it's also the price we pay, no, they must pay for the fact that we humans consume them, our fellow 'earthlings'.

We don't have to consume them. It seems to me to be a clear choice we make, or perhaps we don't make yet never really question. Above all, the film made me reflect seriously upon what it was that I was doing, or was party to being done, in my name or seemingly for my benefit. Seems to me that is a fact, and there is no way of avoiding it.

At least now I think about what I am doing, yet even so this still leaves me open to the accusation of doing very little besides that about it.

I will try to find some more material to support our forthcoming discussion so please keep checking back here, today and tomorrow.

Ray