Do unto others...

This fellow is really becoming a pain in the you-know-where,(excuse the pun your 'honour').
He personifies the elitist view that they are more educated, more intelligent and far more moral than we hoi-poloi (some call us the proletariat, but well give him the benefit of the doubt shall we?) and are therefore more suited to rule us.

IT sounds very kind to swear off eating meat because you looked into the eyes of a cow, which former High Court Michael Kirby explains as the reason for his latter day vegetarianism.

“Look into the eyes of a cow and you will see most of the same sentient responses as we see in a fellow human being,” he wrote last week.

“Animals, raised for slaughter, cannot explain the suffering, pain and fear that they feel. But humans who empathise sufficiently, can do so.”

In other words, those of us who eat meat do not have sufficient empathy. Thanks, your worship (Miranda Devine)

However some awkward new 'scientific' discoveries to sort out the vegans (the priestly caste) from the mere vegetarians:

Then came news that scientists had discovered plants have feelings too. Vegetables could be sentient beings which respond to classical music and feel pain when chopped up or boiled alive. Prince Charles famously talked to his garden.

And it is said that, when acacia plants in Africa are being eaten by elephants, they exude tannin into their leaves to make them taste bitter, while altruistically releasing a scent into the air to “warn” neighbouring acacias of imminent danger, prompting them, too, to exude tannin.

When I asked my mother what was left that I could eat, she replied, deadpan: “Salt”. Soon my squeamishness disappeared under the burden of a rumbling tummy.

The point is that if you take sentimental thoughts about food to their logical conclusion you wouldn’t eat at all.

Oops. And what about the logical conclusions of other things such as eggs, chicken etc.

Dr Greg Hertzler, Associate professor of Agriculture at Sydney University, said yesterday: “It is seriously difficult to be a farmer. You actually have to kill things every day.”

What, asks Hertzler, who grew up on a farm in Wyoming’s cowboy country, do people think happens to the hen who laid the eggs for a vegetarian omelette, when she has run out of eggs?

And he points out that the vegetarian-friendly bread we eat may have caused the deaths of thousands of mice, as happened recently when NSW farmers had to control the rodent plague.

“I hypothesise that the number of animals killed per loaf of bread, per peach, per egg and per pork chop are all about the same ... Regrettably, pigs and chickens are grown by humans who intend to eat them. If not food, they become pests such as the cattle not exported to Indonesia.”

I have often said that I am so glad I don't have to kill to eat, but the reality is that someone does. The irony of it all is that many of these 'activists':

Just last weekend, vegetarian author Jonathan Safran Foer was being feted at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, for his gruesome new book Eating Animals, which so affected actor Natalie Portman it “changed me from a 20-year vegetarian to a vegan activist”.

...are the same who advocate late term abortion, euthanasia, mercy killings  and more recently, infanticide.
It seems to me that what is really being said is that killing is bad only if done to animals not humans.
Welcome to our Brave New Babylonian world!