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WarChild · Passionated Vegan Talker Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 193

I was an environmentalist back before the movement got taken over by idiots who put animal welfare above human welfare.

Jay Scott Raymond

Source: http://www.slackages.com/me/index.html

Sergio · Vegan Talk Veteran Joined: 24 May 2001 Posts: 224

If by human welfare he meant ability to destroy animal habitats for one more hamburger, allow hunting and more pollution, then he's wrong.

BigBecka · Animal defender Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 412

Not sure I like being called an idiot!

If you look at the guy's website, he certainly seems to like shooting...

There a quite a few meat-eating environmentalists round here. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (a local celebrity chef) recently spoke at a public meeting alongside Friends of the Earth, calling on the government to control the environmental and social damage caused by the large supermarkets. He advocates home cooking, using local produce. He has his own small-holding, and a TV cookery show where he features the places he buys food from, often going fishing, shooting birds or scavenging for mushrooms himself.

There seems to be a growing movement in the UK, whereby eating meat is considered OK if it's organic and local, or you catch it yourself. Whilst it's probably a lesser of evils, I think we need to challenge this blackeye