{"id":1087,"date":"2009-04-21T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2009-04-21T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:11:11","slug":"1087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/1087\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristoff\u2019s Nonhuman Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan once asked <a href=\" http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/entry.php?id=684\">before<\/a> what is it about veganism that makes thinking people so stupid? Well, on this occasion veganism isn&#8217;t mentioned but animal rights are. I&#8217;m referring to Nicholas D. Kristoff&#8217;s Op Ed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/09\/opinion\/09kristof.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=print\">&#8220;Humanity Even for Nonhumans,&#8221;<\/a> in <em>The New York Times<\/em>. So, we&#8217;ve got to ask this time what is it about animal rights that makes thinking people so stupid?<\/p>\n<p>First off, Kristoff writes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet the movement is also the product of a deep intellectual ferment pioneered by the Princeton scholar Peter Singer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pioneered? Couldn&#8217;t Kristoff Google animal rights history and see that there were centuries of activity before Singer? <\/p>\n<p>Second, Kristoff trips over the all-too-easy and predictable question of how far do you go?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I eagerly pushed Mr. Singer to find his boundaries. &#8220;Do you have any compunctions about swatting a cockroach?&#8221; I asked him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and inevitably concludes with this begrudging, ambivalent and dumb conclusion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These are vexing questions, and different people will answer them differently. For my part, I eat meat, but I would prefer that this practice not inflict gratuitous suffering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, perlease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan once asked before what is it about veganism that makes thinking people so stupid? Well, on this occasion veganism isn&#8217;t mentioned but animal rights are. I&#8217;m referring to Nicholas D. Kristoff&#8217;s Op Ed, &#8220;Humanity Even for Nonhumans,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/1087\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moaning","tag-stupid-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}