Via @SonnyBunch comes this fascinating passive-aggressive letter from a newly-converted vegan to her omnivorous* roommate. It’s too long to reproduce and too good to excerpt: suffice it to say that after reading it I’m tempted to go buy some veal, cook it up, film myself eating it with an open mouth, and send the woman the video.
And I have a bit of a problem with eating veal.
Moe Lane Continue reading Ah, meat-haters.
…some people don’t really have a digestive system that can handle meat: some people have ethical or religious strictures to consider; and some people simply don’t like animal protein. That’s cool: I’ll just double up on the steak and let them have my potato salad, which I generally don’t eat anyway. I even know a couple of vegans who aren’t annoying about being vegans, which is the problem that most people who have a problem with vegans have with vegans.
All that being said: this is truly a wonderfully passive-aggressive note:
Or possibly just aggressive.
(Via Instapundit) People seem to be having a critter ‘problem’:
The dozens of public works officials, municipal engineers, conservation agents and others who crowded into a meeting room here one recent morning needed help. Property in their towns was flooding, they said. Culverts were clogged. Septic tanks were being overwhelmed.
“We have a huge problem,” said David Pavlik, an engineer for the town of Lexington, where dams built by beavers have sent water flooding into the town’s sanitary sewers. “We trapped them,” he said. “We breached their dam. Nothing works. We are looking for long-term solutions.”
Mary Hansen, a conservation agent from Maynard, said it starkly: “There are beavers everywhere.”
‘Problem’ is in scare quotes because I don’t actually think that there is one, here. What I think that we have here is a new-found opportunity to use the principles found in the following books:
…in such a way as to ensure that pretty soon the problem gets brought down to more manageable levels. Because you know what teaches a wild animal to respect human territory?
Eating it, and then using its skin for a hat.
Moe Lane
PS: Oh, I’m not saying that we have to hunt them almost to extinction again; merely that… many critters are tasty, and their fur is warm.
Crossposted to RedState.
It’s like we have our own home-grown crop of Puritans these days. Only without the work ethic. And the radical egalitarianism. And the fierce hatred of slavery and anti-Semitism. And, heck, the desire to eat a freaking piece of meat every so often:
GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government advisers are developing menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high carbon” food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to the environment.
Out will go kebabs, greenhouse tomatoes and alcohol. Instead, diners will be encouraged to consume more potatoes and seasonal vegetables, as well as pork and chicken, which generate fewer carbon emissions.
I have my own suggestion for these people: you want to cut down on carbon emissions? Stop talking. Less talking, thus less need to breathe, thus less carbon dioxide being emitted. You could also try not going to extravagantly wasteful climate change conferences on jet planes, too. Just a thought.
On the bright side, I now know where I’m ordering lunch from.
Moe Lane
PS: H/T: Instapundit, who also came up with a very pithy saying about this: “I’ll believe that it’s a problem when the people saying that it’s a problem start acting like it’s a problem.”
Crossposted to RedState.
