Jul 31 2008
A pacifist’s diet is vegetarian, says Catholic writer
An article in the National Catholic Reporter, a weekly Catholic publication, says that vegetarianism is “a key ingredient in the new life of peace, compassion and nonviolence”. The article was written by John Dear S.J., author of the book A Persistent Peace.
I couldn’t agree more. How can we even begin to talk about peace if our meals are the result of a vicious cycle of genetic manipulation, confinement, often lethal transportation and brutal slaughter? We simply can’t. Besides, while people are starving in many parts of the world, food is diverted to feed an excessive population of animals, who are bred solely for the purpose of being exterminated, who are then fed to affluent, over-eating westerners. There’s no logic or justice in that.
