No prime choice Grade A beef for you
This morning, I listened to Dennis Kucinich (the mad vegan elf) championing some well-intentioned yet hopelessly pie-in-the-sky ideas on NPR. Sure, it would be nice to have troops out of Iraq by New Year's Eve, but the next administration (provided Bush doesn't win again in 2004) will have the unenviable task of mopping up that (quick! Don't say quagmire!) "situation" in Iraq. That means truly not leaving Iraq worse off than it was. In the words of Megadeth: "Peace sells...but who's buying."
Anyway, the mad vegan elf would not have even inspired a casual mention were it not for a fellow vegan traveling on Boston's Green Line (they really ought to have barf bags on the Green Line: it's like riding a school bus, in traffic, underground) this morning. I knew she was vegan by all the pins posted on her bag: "Meat is Murder," "Vegan," "There is no excuse for animal abuse," and of course the ultra-liberal Swastika crossed out (not that many in the Boston area are likely to support a Fourth Reich), and peace symbol floating over the American flag.
Now what the Vegan peacenik refused to do was offer her seat to an older woman who could have benefited from having a seat on the lurching train. Not a capital offense, mind you, but said vegan obviously saw the woman lurching about, and being a person who wears their politics, or religion (there is a certain religious fervor to veganism) on their sleeve, should have at least upheld the principal of kindness that she draped over herself like a badge of honor.
This is not to say that Vegan supporters (or any supporters) of Dennis Kucinich (not that the vegan on the train was even a Kucinich supporter), are evil people who rob old ladies of seats on the train. There are plenty of masters of the glance and look away move when it comes to people who need seats on the train. People who support kindness to animals should maybe start with the human, too.
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This morning, I listened to Dennis Kucinich (the mad vegan elf) championing some well-intentioned yet hopelessly pie-in-the-sky ideas on NPR. Sure, it would be nice to have troops out of Iraq by New Year's Eve, but the next administration (provided Bush doesn't win again in 2004) will have the unenviable task of mopping up that (quick! Don't say quagmire!) "situation" in Iraq. That means truly not leaving Iraq worse off than it was. In the words of Megadeth: "Peace sells...but who's buying."
Anyway, the mad vegan elf would not have even inspired a casual mention were it not for a fellow vegan traveling on Boston's Green Line (they really ought to have barf bags on the Green Line: it's like riding a school bus, in traffic, underground) this morning. I knew she was vegan by all the pins posted on her bag: "Meat is Murder," "Vegan," "There is no excuse for animal abuse," and of course the ultra-liberal Swastika crossed out (not that many in the Boston area are likely to support a Fourth Reich), and peace symbol floating over the American flag.
Now what the Vegan peacenik refused to do was offer her seat to an older woman who could have benefited from having a seat on the lurching train. Not a capital offense, mind you, but said vegan obviously saw the woman lurching about, and being a person who wears their politics, or religion (there is a certain religious fervor to veganism) on their sleeve, should have at least upheld the principal of kindness that she draped over herself like a badge of honor.
This is not to say that Vegan supporters (or any supporters) of Dennis Kucinich (not that the vegan on the train was even a Kucinich supporter), are evil people who rob old ladies of seats on the train. There are plenty of masters of the glance and look away move when it comes to people who need seats on the train. People who support kindness to animals should maybe start with the human, too.
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