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Monday, January 23, 2006 12:00 AM

Global fishiness

How can Wal-Mart sell Chilean salmon for $4.84 a pound? An excerpt from "The Wal-Mart Effect."

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Sunday, January 22, 2006 08:58 PM

Interesting article

Wow, it is so great to finally get some vindication! I've been saying this for years to my fake vegetarian friends. (I call them 'fake vegetarians' because they say, 'I'm a vegetarian, but I eat fish.....' Like fish isn't meat!) Fish is about the worst thing we can eat! Fish are full of heavy metals, toxins and parasites. The methods used to raise fish are, as we read in this article, terrible for the environment, unfair to the people who process them, and let's not forget, horrifyingly cruel to the animals themselves.

I find it interesting that it took Wal-Mart's involvement in this hateful flesh-dealing industry to make the Salon run an article about it! Salon is happy to hate on Wal-Mart, which as every good knee-jerk liberal knows, is a vastly destructive corporation. But the global effects of consuming animals and animal products are more devastating to our planet, and, arguably, poor non-Americans across the world, than any other industry or corporation, with the possible exception of the fossil fuels concerns.

Eating animals is wasteful, inefficient, cruel and above all, unnecessary. Bitch all you want about 'needing' protein or whatever your selfish reasons are, but understand that you are simply justifying your own laziness.

(I had written much more, but Salon's cookie expired and I lost everything I hadn't saved up to this point. Since what I lost mainly consisted of more vegetarian propaganda, I will allow it to stay lost. So here's what y'all missed, in the proverbial nutshell: Don't eat living creatures. It's selfish, inconsiderate, bad for the earth, and needlessly cruel. Enjoy.)

-Anonymouse

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