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The “green consumer” revisited
Via Russell Arben Fox comes a terrific post by Laura McKenna taking a shot at trendy “green consumerism.” Rusell adds his thoughts here. I blogged a bit about this phenomenon here. It’s interesting (and maybe significant) how much conventional political wisdom is frequently at odds with common-sense (and traditional) wisdom. For instance: the idea that…
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In defense of C.S. Lewis
Via Catholic blogger Mark Shea I came across this article arguing that J.R.R. Tolkien’s lukewarm response to C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series is rooted in something deeper than aesthetic preference. The author, Eric Seddon, contends that Tolkien’s intense dislike of Lewis’ Letters to Malcolm (which Tolkien called “a distressing and in parts horrifying work”) indicates deeper…
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Factory farming: bad for animals, bad for people
See here for the story on the meat recall. Here for the Humane Society’s statement on their investigations into the ways sick animals are dealt with on the slaughterhouse floor. This seems like a fairly direct result of treating animals as units of production rather than living beings. (But I would say that, wouldn’t I?)
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The quest for the happy meal
Here’s a look at the lengths people are going to to get humanely-raised meat. Mostly I want to applaud this, but at the same time I continue to have this nagging feeling that there’s something incongruous about going to such lengths to treat animals well in order to kill and eat them.
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“Making God’s kingdom real”
Matthew Yglesias, pointing to this post by Alexia Kelley at the TPM Cafe discussion of E. J. Dionne’s Souled Out (see my previous post), says that it exhibits “a side of the ‘religious left’ that strikes me as a bit creepy and illiberal.” I’m not sure I’d go that far, but it does employ a…
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