Shannon Duffield

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  Shannon signed the petition | 6 months ago

  Gov. Cuomo and DEC Commissioner: Listen to NY Citizens about Fracking
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  Shannon commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Boycott Whole Foods

  Hi Melissa,

  
  

  I applaud your efforts to raise awareness about the importance and necessity of the sustainable food movement.  We need more voices like yours!  However, I would like to offer some constructive criticism: If you want to be taken seriously (which your supporters need you to be), please proofread your work.  I look forward to reading more of your articles in the days, weeks, and months to come!

  
  

  All my best,

  
  

  Shannon

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  Shannon commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Butchers Are Hot. Blood Is Sexy. Killing Is Hip. This Is Not Progress.

  Dear Stephanie,

  
  

  You should be thrilled that so many people are taking an interest in the meat they are eating and not just gulping down the cheapest cut they can find without a thought to where that meat came from or how that animal was treated.  These boutique butchers are by and large purchasing their meat from local farmers who are raising their animals humanely on pasture and without the use of (or need for) antibiotics or hormones.  People are paying more money for this "happy meat" and treating it with more respect and gratitude, maybe even eating less of it.  Hopefully these changes will be continuous and far-reaching so as to ultimately end the era of the big agribusiness feedlot - where you really should be focusing your activism.  I'm sure we agree that the treatment of the animals and the environmental implications of that type of meat production are reprehensible and need to end. 

  
  

  Your boycott of meat and animal by-products is not helping to bring this change about.  You are inhibiting the success of the small sustainable farmer.  The small farmers need your dollars in order to stay afloat and we need them as an alternative if we are to put an end to industrial meat production.  It would be unrealistic for you to honestly believe that people will stop eating meat because the animals have "soulful eyes".  Such an anthropocentric attitude and naïve understanding of nutrient cycles only reinforces the culture/nature boundary you may ultimately be hoping to dissolve.  You are denying that you are in fact an animal designed to eat meat.  We are nature.  Killing and eating animals is natural, for all animals, even humans.  You are not superior, nor can you be excluded from this cycle of life... and death.

  
  

  I say yeehoo for the newbie butchers!