Calling All Carnivores

[Tim Gier]

The New York Times announces a contest that I believe vegans ought to take seriously:

Tell Us Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat: A Contest

The article reads, in part:

So today we announce a nationwide contest for the omnivorous readers of The New York Times. We invite you to make the strongest possible case for this most basic of daily practices.

We have assembled a veritable murderer’s row of judges — some of the most influential thinkers to question or condemn the eating of meat: Peter Singer, Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, Jonathan Safran Foer and Andrew Light. If you can make it past them, we’ll put your name in lights (or at least in print). So get thinking. And get writing. You have two weeks and 600 words in which to make sense of our species’ entire dietary history. Bon appétit

I believe that I will enter this contest and I believe that other vegans ought to as well. It would be very helpful to anyone who believes that they understand the ethical argument for veganism for them to seriously explore the ethical arguments for eating other animals. I mean this sincerely. One cannot truly understand those viewpoints to which one is opposing until one attempts to make the best possible case for those viewpoints.

What do you think? Will you enter this contest too?

[Mo Orr]

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