動物愛護を極めるとベジタリアンになる?
「The List Issue」という特集が読みたくて入手した今週の The Times Asia Pacific版。ランキングものとか好きなのだ。ほら、日本人ですから。で、なんとなく別のページを読んでいたら・・・PETAという動物愛護団体のco-founder、Ingrid Newkirkさんとの「10 Questions.」がおもしろい!ネットでも見られるらしい:- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1853306,00.html何が面白いって、とくにここらへんのやりとり:Q. Is PETA against the consumption of meat? Do you want us all to be vegetarian? Jose Ortega, LIMA, PERUA. I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat. And we don't need animals. It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.Q. How do you justify advocating animal rights in a world filled with poverty and starvation? Joslyn DeGroot YPSILANTI, MICH.A. Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.訳は面倒くさいからつけないけどさ・・・肉食の食事習慣は世の中の貧困問題とリンクしてるのよ!動物を解放が、人間の解放につながるの!みたいなところ、回答の仕方がとってもPR professionalが準備したなー、って感じ。