by Zoë Pollock
In the midst of a vegetarian rebuttal to the arguments of carnivores, David Sirota attempts to shut down the libertarian angle:
A number of commenters have said what commenter Jeffrey P. Harrison said: "I am a carnivore [and] it's none of your damned business." This is usually where the conversation with angry, over-aggressive carnivores ends up — with the carnivore going libertarian, refusing to discuss the substance and science of food decisions, other than to declare it an entirely "personal choice." The problem, of course, is that these decisions are everyone's business when they threaten our collective air, water and ecosystem, as meat eating disproportionately does…
His earlier column, which prompted the above, explored why vegetarian cuisine glorifies meat-eating with all its fake meat products.
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