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Go off in the corner with your roast beef sandwich, while we build a better World.
Meanie cow-raping school district fires bold rebel for secretly teaching veganism in art class, instead of, um, art.

The former teacher, Dave Warwak, leaves no news article combox untouched in his quest, under the name inslidedotcom.

"teach them how Artists shape and guide morals in society With this knowledge, they can deal with the real world Use their art to create positive change Live longer Heal the earth I model what I teach I have been railroaded Posts removed You celebrate I appeal You pay Meat and Dairy laughs I cry"

Poetry.

And as his combox name might suggest, he has a website.

Yes, this is the man I want to teach MY children about art.

Edit: I turned off comment notification (ow, my inbox) so if anyone has any links to this guy wanking elsewhere (since he's wanked in two news articles at least, I'm sure there's more and will be more) please drop a comment in joye's journal and I'll edit the post. Thanks.

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frequentmouse
2007-10-10 07:49 pm UTC (link)

I said I wouldn't say more, but I lied:

any vegan who thinks their diet is not paid for in the form of animal lives is deluding himself: insecticides, rodenticides, bird killers to keep starlings out of stored food, vertabrates, especially snakes and burrowing rodents killed by cultivation, planting, and harvest, and let us not even go into the total eradication of habitat by monoculture... If you eat, something has died.

Not eating meat just obscures personal responsibility.

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	brennalarose 2007-10-10 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	riotous applause HUZZAH! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sneer 2007-10-10 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	Hell, if you drink water, things have died. Little single-celled water boogumses don't count, though. They don't have cute fuzzy coats or big soulful eyes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	barankhy 2007-10-10 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	Euglena would cry now if its eyespot had tear ducts ;-; (Reply to this)(Parent)

	blackjackrocket 2007-10-10 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	Heck, even if that wasn't the case, you still kill veggies. Everything you eat was once alive, and some plants are more sentient than some animals. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lysana 2007-10-11 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	I once sparked wank on a mailing list by making a very similar statement in a .sigfile quote. The first riposte was a denial from a vegan that lettuce is sufficiently alive to be capable of dying. I stepped back and watched the firestorm in complete shock. Biology 101 went over the head of so many people... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mael 2007-10-11 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Not to mention the carbon footprint of getting veggies to local stores out of season. Avocados might not be animals, but they sure as hell caused a shitload of CO2 to be released into the atmo before they got into your salad. /my thoughts on nutrition and environmental responsibility, let me show you them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2007-10-11 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	We shallalso not mention that, even though people are still quoting Diet for a Smal Planet, most of the lnd taken outof natural plantcommunities in South America is now dedicate to soybeans and not beef cattle. I'm waiting for a species profile on Argentine pampas grazed by cattle and sheep vs those turnedtosoybean production... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-10-14 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	My vegetarian brother-in-law to be told me that those soy plants were being used to feed cattle. I don't know if that's true or not, but I figure that it both got rid of Amazonian rainforest so I'm still pissed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	luthe 2007-10-11 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	>.> I like my OJ and my lack of scurvy. Locally grown is a great thing and produces delicious, delicious food, but when it's February in New England, California lettuce and hothouse tomatoes look very tasty indeed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lysana 2007-10-11 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	I still remember winters in New England from before refrigerated shipping was possible (gods, I feel old). Man, talk about a dearth of variety in the produce section. Frozen and canned veggies were the bestest friends in the world, and orange season really meant something. I moved to CA and nearly died from joy to see that I could get oranges year-round. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	iamnotyourmuse 2007-10-11 03:26 pm UTC (link)
	I think someone needs to introduce this guy to the Breatharian diet. Come on! Exist on sunshine and a cup of water every ten days! (Reply to this)(Parent)

drhenryjekyll
2007-10-16 01:46 am UTC (link)

Sure, things have died to protect our grains and veggies and things. Sometimes you step on an ant on the sidewalk or a spider or something.

Being vegetarian (or vegan, in my case) isn't about getting it all perfect. For me, it's just about reducing suffering as much as it is in my power to do so. I would prefer not to eat animals or animal-derived products. There is never going to be a time when I can be assured that absolutely nothing died to make my salad or soup or whatever, but that doesn't mean I'll just give up on it. For example, I will never be able to cut out pharmecuticals from my life even though they're tested on animals. I just do my best. No one's scoring me or anything, it's just for personal peace.

And hell, I'm still learning about a bunch of stuff that I didn't realize wasn't vegan - refined sugar, for example.

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