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Regarding your article "City Kids Learn About the Land' in your January/February 2005 issue (In Brief), I think it is great that city kids get to work on a farm and learn about organic agriculture and sustainability, but I think this program is irresponsible in not promoting veganism as a part of environmentalism environmentalism, movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources, prevention of pollution, and control of land use. The philosophical foundations for environmentalism in the United States were established by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. In 1864, George Perkins Marsh published Man & Nature, in which he anticipated many concepts of modern ecology.. The article refers to children giggling as they feed their food scraps to pigs. Are these children being taught about what will happen to that pig when it comes time for him or her to be slaughtered?

And would these children be thrilled to meet the cows who provide their milk if they got to see the male offspring of those cows spending the first six weeks of their lives in veal veal, flesh of a calf from two to three months old weighing usually less than 300 lb (135 kg). The locomotion of the veal calves is often restricted, and they are fed a real or synthetic milk that is high in protein and low in iron; this produces the desired tenderness and white color of good veal. It contains gelatin in large proportion and is therefore excellent for making soup stock. crates? If we want the next generation to make wise choices and treat the Earth and its creatures better than this and past generations, then we must never shy away from telling them the truth: Real environmentalists don't eat animals. Real environmentalists have compassion for all living creatures.

Ginny Johnson

Eugene, OR
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Title Annotation:ADVICE & DISSENT: Letters from our readers
Author:Johnson, Ginny
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Article Type:Letter to the Editor
Date:May 1, 2005
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