On Sat, 24 Sep 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone want to toss out a feminist comment on the
> animal rights/environmental ethics debate?
See Carol Adams's _The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian
Critical Theory_ (New York: Continuum, 1990). Discusses the
connection betw
I agree with Lorraine's analysis of masculinist authorities in this
world. By the way, a feminist Kathy Jones (1993) in her book Compassionate
Authority makes the same argument for Margaret Thatcher. She also
clearly states what feminism is about is deconstructing and
reworking socially cons
A quick inquiry,
A group of Rice University students and I are making a class presentation
on Thursday 29 Sept. on RIANE EISLER's book the CHALICE and the BLADE, with
specific reference to sustainable architecture (the subject of the class).
If anyone has any comments to help or direct us, ple
> I have a deep respect
> for hunters who hunt for food (not for sport) because they know what it's like
> to kill, to skin their food, to "have the blood on their hands."
I wonder why you respect someone for knowing what it's like to kill.
BTW, I believe that the distinction between trophy
>
> My second set of questions to the animal rights camp is who gets to speak
> for the animals, and how do we do it again beyond scientific proof? What
> I ended up doing in my work was looking to the empowerment of groups who
> were not labelled as "scientists" but still were very active i
> Those who oppose eating meat or any
> animal products seem to be motivated by a certain revulsion at taking the
> life of an animal. However, what of the plants? Is there a clear moral
> distinction between parasitizing animals to sustain our life and
> parasitizing plants?
Three point
>
> > May I ask the resident vegetarians how they feel about the fact that cats
> > not only eat meat, they seem to take great pleasure in torturing their
> > prey? If animals do it, why shouldn't we?
> >
>
We're not cats.
Brian Luke
