{"id":755687,"date":"2018-12-26T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755687"},"modified":"2018-12-26T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T14:44:21","slug":"my-beef-with-vegans-says-more-about-me-than-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755687","title":{"rendered":"My beef with vegans says more about ME than THEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The thing that\u2019s annoying about there suddenly being lots of them is the nagging suspicion that they might be right. When there were hardly any vegans, I hardly ever had to think about that.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAVID MITCHELL:<\/strong><em> &#8216;Speaking as a meat-eater, I find it annoying how many vegans there suddenly are&#8230; I think what I find annoying, deep down&#8230; is the very fact that I can\u2019t discount vegans any more. The thing that\u2019s annoying about there suddenly being lots of them is the nagging suspicion that they might be right. When there were hardly any vegans, I hardly ever had to think about that&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Look, I can defend meat-eating. It\u2019s perfectly possible to farm meat in such a way that the animals have decent lives and don\u2019t die in pain and fear. I don\u2019t know how often that happens, but it\u2019s possible. Still, it\u2019s hard to frame an argument that it\u2019s actually wrong not to kill them. Not killing them feels, ethically speaking, to be playing on the safe side&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Our ethical compasses are calibrated according to the norms of the time in which we live. So I eat dead animals because I was brought up to eat dead animals. It seemed like almost everyone did when I was younger, and the tiny minority who didn\u2019t certainly had lots of cheese and eggs. It was normal, and it still is normal, just a bit less so. It\u2019s not uncommon, in the history of human societies, for things once deemed normal to start being deemed wrong&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/dec\/09\/my-beef-with-vegans-says-more-about-me-than-them-david-mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IFvq_scdMQA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID MITCHELL: &#8216;Speaking as a meat-eater, I find it annoying how many vegans there suddenly are&#8230; I think what I find annoying, deep down&#8230; is the very fact that I can\u2019t discount vegans any more. The thing that\u2019s annoying about there suddenly being lots of them is the nagging suspicion that they might be right. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-755687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755689,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755687\/revisions\/755689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}