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OPINION
| UPDATED JAN. 29
Freedom of choice to eat and enjoy meat
Re: Jan. 17, “Thought for Food”
I was truly excited when I read this column. So excited that I am
now writing in response to it, as it is so incredibly removed from
the fundamental ideas of American capitalism and the freedom of
choice to which most Americans subscribe.
Where do I begin? First, the meat business is just that. It is not
a charity, and it does not exist to give grain to the world’s
hungry. That is not it’s responsibility, nor is it ours as
a nation, to sacrifice our eating privileges and habits to save
the purported “billions” mentioned in the column. Keep
in mind that we already go well beyond our call of duty and send
aid to many nations. So how could it be our fault as American meat
consumers when foreign dictatorships confiscate that aid, leaving
their own people impoverished?
Second, there is not a water shortage, nor will there be. Liberal
tenets hold that the polar ice caps will eventually melt, overcoming
the world with water.
Third, animals exist for human use and consumption, which is simply
proven by the fact that every human being possesses carnivorous
incisors in their mouth. Meanwhile, the idea that animals have “faces”
is a false moral issue and does not pertain at all to their edibility.
It is morbidly ironic that so many support the preservation of animals’
“faces,” but turn a blind eye to the millions of actual
faces that have been discarded since Roe vs Wade.
The concept that meat-eaters are ruining the world is an unenlightened
one that ignores the food chain, the process of cause and effect
and the real issues affecting the world. So enjoy your tofu; I’ll
be savoring the taste of meat and the freedoms that I have to eat
it.
— Justin Glasgow is a mechanical engineering student.
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