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What I'm wondering is whether

DF — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:55:00 +0000

What I'm wondering is whether this means that the pork industry considers the term 'swine' to be laudatory. It's not like it's the swine industry (neither is it the pork flu).

Swine - The other white meat?

i hate the way we treat

Deadman — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:52:44 +0000

In reply to RETHINKING WHO THE SWINE REALLY IS

i hate the way we treat animals, and also often consider vegetarianism (I was once one but am not a good enough cook to make that diet palatable enough so i now eat most fish, chicken and turkey) but America certainly isn't the worst actor when it comes to animal abuse. The practices in India and China and throughout the third world are much more disturbing, and believe it or not, not all of their meat production is due to American consumption and desire for cheap meat.

and the swine flu has been around for decades and is not a food-borne illness, so let's not conflate the issues here.

but i do agree that trying to change the name of the disease to help revive pork sales is asinine, especially if the idea is to start calling its by its scientific name. that just won't work.

Good post. The mistreatment

kalakitty17 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:37:15 +0000

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Good post. The mistreatment of animals is the main reason I became a vegetarian.

Thank you.

kala

The City On The Hill cannot

elliottness — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:03:41 +0000

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The City On The Hill cannot be eliminated. It is the very thing that brings you here to trumpet your thoughts.

I vote for doing things better as we can change them.

Ripping things down to start again is not how human institutions truly work. We might make a great big show of it, but at the end of the day, it is just new people driving the old boat of power.

Now gluttony is a great target. How do you address all aspects of it? Good question. Right now we are seeing pull-back from the American consumer which could portend true change. I doubt it though unless it becomes the rally call of this administration and is supported from the bottom up.

I ramble.