We Got Into Harvard! September 16, 2009
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As you may have seen in our long-running and much-adored "Dumb Comments" series, meat-eaters can sometimes have a hard time coming up with much of an argument in favor of eating animals (aside from everyone's favorite crusher—"it's tasty"). So we were curious—can America's best and brightest do any better?
To find out, we set up a debate on the topic at the top-ranked college in the world—Harvard University. Working with the school's resident veg-heads from the campus vegetarian society, we arranged for a representative from the Harvard debate team to face off against PETA vice president Bruce Friedrich, to answer the question "Is Eating Animals Ethical?"
Ahead of the event, peta2 was everywhere on campus. In the student newspaper, walking around campus in a chicken costume, and even stopping by the dining halls at dinner time to remind students to attend the debate!
The result? A packed room, with more than 250 students ... well, I'll let the pictures do the talking:
Well, as the Harvard Crimson newspaper reported, "Throughout most of the debate, though a slim majority of the packed Science Center audience admitted to eating meat, [the debate team] conceded [the PETA VP's] arguments about the immorality of being a carnivore in today's world. PETA seemed downright reasonable." In other words, we made an unbeatable case for vegetarianism. :)
Pretty cool, eh?
So what do you say to convince meat-eaters to change their ways?
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Facts are amazing things!
Face it- we [well, most of us] have been taught our entire lives that we NEED cows milk, we NEED the protien from animals, they dont feel, we are "top of the food chain"
So for people to hear that these teachings are all lies...well thats just one big ol pill to swollow, To hear the truth about how our bodies, minds, and how the animal and earth will benefit from a vegan/veggie diet I think we can get a lot more vegetarians-
they just need to get over the shock that their lives have been formed on one big lie...
That's great, when I was about 10 i made up my mind that Harvard Law was the place for me and ever since I started being a good student
Posted by: Kasu at September 16, 2009 10:50 PMThat's really amazing!!
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i just give them the facts & show them earthlings :D
Posted by: dia at September 16, 2009 9:45 AM