We handle it this way: we only eat what we, ourselves, kill, and we only
kill what we, ourselves, eat.
That eliminates making someone else responsible for the physical act of
taking the life of what becomes our food, and forces us to be aware that to
eat is to kill. That comes home very powerfully when you watch the being you
have just mortally wounded take its last breath as it fixes you in its death
stare. You realize with great clarity that life is possible only as a result
of death, and that the act of dying within this context can be viewed as an
act of supreme love. To eat the flesh of another
being thus becomes almost sacramental.
To eat the flesh of a creature raised as a slave in a cage, then slaughtered
in a facility that makes the Nazi concentration camps look like Club Med,
then wrapped in plastic and sold as beef (not dead cow), or ham (not dead
pig), or veal (not dead baby cows kept in anemic bondage), or industrial
chicken/turkey, etc., _ad_nauseum_,...that all becomes almost sacrilegious.
We believe that it is at least in part because of such food that this
"culture of the dominant paradigm" is rotting away from within.
Kathy and Jeff Moebus
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 21 22:54:16 1995
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 00:54:10 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: for Ilana
Neil - I'm forwarding this info for Ilana - can you pass it on to her - I
don't know her email address. Thanks -
PS Education Plan is on back burner still until 2nd week of January at least.
I'll keep you posted. Did you get paid by the City?
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 28 19:24:06 1995
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 21:20:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Constance Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ECOFEM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CSWIP call for papers (fwd)
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Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy
Conference, Queen's University
October 25-27, 1996
Call for Papers
"Taking Issue with Our Issues: Reconsidering the Presuppositions of
Feminist Theory"
The program committee invites papers of 10-13 pages, prepared for
anonymous review. Abstracts of more than 1000 words will also be
considered, although completed papers are preferred. The conference theme
will be interpreted generously, and papers in any area of philosophy are
encouraged; but papers that address the theme are especially welcome.
contributors must include (for grant application purposes) the following
information on separate page: degrees (with dates), recent and relevant
positions, recent and relevant publications, and a short (250-word)
abstract. (This requirement should not deter graduate students from
submitting.) Two copies of the paper are required. Presenters must be
members of C-SWIP at the time of the conference.
The committee also invites symposium proposals and suggestions
for book panels. These proposals, which will be refereed, must include a
one-paragraphy description of the topic being suggested and a list of
proposed participants with some indication of their willingness to be
involved.
Deadline for receipt of papers, abstracts, and proposals is
February 14, 1995, but early submissions are strongly encouraged. All
submissions should be addressed to Susan Babbitt, Department of
Philosophy, queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6.
Program committee: Susan Babbitt, Sue Campbell, jackie Davies,
Angela Fernandex, Jane Isaacs-Doyle, Christine Koggel, Adele Mercier, and
Andrea Nicki.
