Dear Editor: Re: System needs more than whistleblowers, Our View, Burnaby NOW, June 21.
The recently discovered animal abuse in Chilliwack should evoke something more profound than the mere consideration of “ethically sourced meat” or “greater regulation” or “eating less meat.” We should consider not eating meat at all.
Firstly, there is a new, much more convincing, theory of evolution which attributes our enlarged neocortex to the eating of mind-expanding plants and fungi, not meat. Comparative anatomy boldly proclaims that we are supposed to be frugivores or herbivores, so how likely is it, really, that it was the introduction of cooked meat which was so miraculous? Second, now that this debate has become more widespread, many prominent vegans have done nutritional tests and were found to be lacking nothing whatsoever, the one supplement they do invariably take being B12, only because we used to get it naturally from water.
The only reason we tolerate the horror of slaughterhouses, at all, is that we believe it to be necessary, but what if it is not? What if we are actually enslaved to a mere tradition which began, let us say, out of necessity? Yes, I became a vegan about a month ago. No, I am not judging you. Judgment in these matters is one’s own personal business.
Elias Ishak, Burnaby
