Thing is, John, I don't make that extrapolation. There is a mindset afoot that we meat-eaters should feel guilty because we eat meat. The correct mindset should be that we meat-eaters should eat less meat, should eat high-welfare meat and should not eat rain-forest meat or other ecologically-unfriendly meat. That is a very legitimate challenge, and a perfectly valid challenge, to us carnivores, and a very hard one to meet, and I accept it in full. That's very good. But there is a rather burgeoning movement afoot among evangelical vegans, and their fellow-travellers, that we shouldn't eat meat at all. The religious equivalent is that we should all be Muslims, or Christians, or whatever your personal predilection is. Well tough shit. The obstinate fact is that my gut is an omnivore gut. So's yours, and so's every vegan's on this planet. It's you who have to make the argument, not me.
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