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Zinn called the Bush administration’s efforts, including the bombing of Afghanistan, wrong for both pragmatic and moral reasons...
...next big social movement in American life. The anti-fur campaign, organic dairies, free-range chickens--they strike me as harbingers of something big to come, maybe not in a decade but during this century. Although I admire the commitment of the animal-rights folks--except for their great moral lapse on animal testing of drugs that can fight aids and other diseases--I'm quite likely to be on the other side of the lunch counter. My vegan phase was great, but after three weeks I broke under the torture of a grilled-cheese sandwich (with bacon!). Chili...
...true currency of snobbery today is celebrity, which is probably the greatest American art form. Proximity to the famous, not the wellborn, is the way we raise our own stock. While Epstein's definition of snobbery is conventional--the exaggerated respect for status--his critique of it is uniquely moral: "The snob's error," he says, "is to put good taste before a good heart." Epstein's distinction is that he writes with both...
...impressionable young minds, vegetarianism can sound sensible, ethical and--as nearly 25% of adolescents polled by Teenage Research Unlimited said--"cool." College students think so too. A study conducted by Arizona State University psychology professors Richard Stein and Carol Nemeroff reported that, sight unseen, salad eaters were rated more moral, virtuous and considerate than steak eaters. "A century ago, a high-meat diet was thought to be health-favorable," says Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania. "Kids today are the first generation to live in a culture where vegetarianism is common, where it is publicly promoted on health...
...moral: there is no free lunch, not even if it's vegetarian. For now, man is perched at the top of the food chain and must live with his choice to feed on the living things further down. But even to raise the question of a harvester Hiroshima is to show how far we have come in considering the humane treatment of that which is not human. And we still have a way to go. "It may take a while," says actress and vegetarian Mary Tyler Moore, "but there will probably come a time when we look back...