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Re: the justice of veganism
- To: Noelle <noelle>
- Subject: Re: the justice of veganism
- From: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Sat, 09 May 2026 13:28:26 -0700
- Keywords: our-Oakland-cell-phone-number, our-Oakland-cell-phone-number
What about veganism and abortion?
These sorts of questions get really complicated real fast.
> From: Noelle <noelle>
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 16:15:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/04/there-is-no-justice-without-veganism/
>
> and this guy lives in Northampton:
>
> "As an antiwar activist I often engage with others in organized
> actions against my local arms manufacturer – L3Harris, located at 50
> Prince Street, in Northampton. We talk to workers through a bullhorn
> – no one, we believe, should be allowed to work for the death
> industry in a moral vacuum. That is what free speech is for – to
> pierce the veil of secrecy that profit motives depend on. But what
> about the butcher shop, the slaughterhouse, the shopper and the
> chef? Perpetrators and passive participants alike strive to seek
> safety in collective silence. Can people see the bombing of schools
> and hospitals and the vast industry of animal slaughter as one
> continuous act of shame? Can we imagine that blocking the entrance
> to L3Harris – as we did last August – might be seen as an act
> adjacent to veganism? Realistically, I understand that many antiwar
> activists consume meat, and many vegans fail to target the war
> industry. That is the discontinuity that plagues us, the separation
> of moral visions into small, disempowered subdivisions."
>
> I bet Alex may have encountered him.