The New York Times Challenge To Meat Eaters
The New York Times has announced a contest that’s should be considered more of a challenge to any of us who enjoy a good steak! Given all the coverage they dedicate to the vegetarian movement the paper’s asking readers to explain a justification for the practice of meat-eating. The winner essay will appear in their magazine section. I’m Susan Allen stay tuned for Open Range. For those who think the meat industry doesn’t get fair representation with the main-stream media, the New York Times is offering you a chance to tell this story in most influential paper in the US. Here’s there announcement for their contest: “In recent years, vegetarians –and to a greater degree vegans, have dominated the ethics of eating, in response, those who love meat have had surprisingly little to say, “maybe that meat is ingrained in habit or culture or that some conscientious carnivores have devoted themselves to enhancing the lives of livestock but few have tried to answer the fundamental ethical issue: Whether it is right to eat animals in the first place, at least when human survival is not at stake. Thus the New York Times is inviting carnivores to make the strongest possible case for this most basic of daily practices” in 600 words or less. Essays will be judged by some of the most influential anti- meat activists like the infamous Michael Pollan. I think the New York Times needs to hear en mass from the millions of you who make living in the meat industry or can’t imagine Christmas without Prime Rib or Fathers day without steak! Easy to find link simply google New York Times meating eating contest!
