BlogHer buddy Britt Bravo wrote a personal post on her own personal path entitled, "Is Part-Time Vegetarian Good Enough?"
You'll see that I left the very first comment, mostly because she quoted Jane Goodall from a Daily Show Appearance Goodall had made a while back:
At the time Goodall's brief anecdote about when/how she occasionally eats meat ticked me off, but I didn't stop t think too much about it, and I didn't write about it.
Britt quoted her, though, and reminded me about why I found it so off-putting. The money quote was about how if someone made her a birthday cake with eggs or whatnot, she'd eat it, because being extremist or fundamentalist about anything is bad. Um, OK, I often say that no one is perfect, and we just have to do the best we can do. But then Goodall took it a step further and said that extremism/fundamentalism is responsible for what's going wrong on the planet today.
Ex-squeeze me?
Did you just compare making a *personal choice* about how one eats to being the kind of fundamentalist that, say, blows up a building? Or tries to withhold civil rights from others based on religious beliefs.
You lost me there. That's some pretty extreme rationalization, if you ask me.
As I said in my comment: Extremism is about what you inflict on others, not how you choose to conduct your own life, particularly when it comes to something like dietary choices. Just don't think I'm doing a lot of inflicting here, not on people and not on animals either.
Gurmble, grumble, grumble.
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