So Takoma Park vegetarians are reverting to their former meat-eating ways and actually entered a float in the last Fourth of July parade declaring, "No Drumsticks, No Peace" ["Meat: The Other Red Protein: Meat Is Rare No More in Takoma Park," front page, March 20].
Some of history's most revered minds have said quite the opposite. Leo Tolstoy, for example, once warned that as long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. And Alice Walker sees a vegetarian diet as an essential component of achieving a peaceful world.
Mistakes are not mitigated by talk of "humanely" killed meat. Nor do animals "give" their lives at the slaughterhouse or appreciate prayers from Takoma Park yoga teachers. Talk about the "revolution for lovingly and humanely raised and culled meat" sounds like a karma of convenience.
BILL DOLLINGER
Washington Director
Friends of Animals
Darien, Conn.
