Word: vegetarian
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...says Brett Heffernan, a spokesman for the National Farmers' Federation. "But it's not likely to take over traditional cattle and lamb and everything else. There's still a long way to go for the industry to solidify itself." Animal-rights groups oppose kangaroo culling; the famously vegetarian Paul McCartney even jumped into the fray last year, speaking out against a controversial cull in Canberra. "Our organization does not encourage the eating of our national icon," says Karen Scott, vice-president of Wildcare Australia, a conservation group that rescues native animals...
...last three semesters I’ve written a Crimson column on animal protection, and for many years I’ve been a strict vegetarian. During that time, many friends and readers have voiced their surprise that I care so much about such an unlikely cause. Many, I think, have simply assumed I’ve always been this way—as if I were born with a PETA membership card and an inexplicably visceral distaste...
...first 15 years of my life, the opposite was true: I ate meat, attended rodeos, and even occasionally went hunting in our family’s forest. A longtime vegetarian friend recently remembered that I teased her in middle school for her “rabbit diet” of fruit and vegetables. So what changed? In this, my last Crimson column, I would like to tell the story of how I became an animal advocate and explain why I believe history will judge our generation harshly based on our treatment of animals...
...Such stories, and the broader reality they encapsulate, first persuaded me to buy only free-range meat, and later to become a strict vegetarian. I’ve never fully accepted any abstract theory of animal rights, nor do I think one needs to in order to sense that something has gone horribly wrong. For me, the horrors of the slaughterhouse and the suffering of the factory farm attest to that...
...complicit in a great moral crisis. But there is also hope: By informing ourselves, supporting political change, and even going vegetarian, we can end factory farming. I hope that I have persuaded you over the past year and a half that we must...