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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again
jones_supa writes Former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde was released from prison this morning. Peter is expected to take some time off to spend with family and loved ones before returning to the normal grind. He was arrested in late May this year. Despite being accused of non-violent crimes, Peter was transferred to a high-security unit. His time in prison is described as being tough. There was no concern for high values such as a vegan diet or even proper treatment of depression. Peter also lost 15 kg of weight. After the experience he tweeted, "My body just got re-united with my soul and mind, the parts of me that matters and that never can be held hostage."
Givn that Sweden has a 30-40% reoffending rate, I'd say it's doing okay.
Sunde did not commit any crime. His actions where made crimes after he performed them and he was convicted due to foreign and political pressure on the legal system.
You can consider yourself a vegan but you're not. You've become omnivorous.
Veganism is a diet for rich western people who have shops stocked with food year round and first world medical facilities. For most of the world, veganism is a cruel joke, if not a slow suicide.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
No? Why not? Eating other sentient beings or not is a moral choice.
Because the actual damage of producing, obtaining, and transporting food is large. Meat is easier to keep than vegetables: you can slaughter animals as needed, but vegetables must be planted months in advanced and harvested at the right time. Blemished vegetables are often thrown out (we've started to use them to make soups); blemished fruits are more often thrown out; and a lot isn't sold from the supermarket. Grain stores better than anything, but still uses a lot of land, damaging farming practice, varmint management, etc.
Everything that we produce--food, non-food, the like--involves continuous harm to the environment at large, and direct harm to individual animals and insects. An animal you slaughter is just the end of a huge trail of dead insects and animals. It's imperative to kill all the rabbits, mice, voles, and moles living in your fields if you grow vegetables. Free-graze cattle and even grain-fed livestock don't deal with concerns of storage and preparation for human consumption; they also eat genetically modified foods, for better or worse, which require less damaging management.
The largest impact of human activity is how much. If you want to inflict less harm, eat less. For example: eat cow--large single animal--instead of chicken. The obvious deficiency is the ever-expanding human population: if we free-range hunted and gathered, we'd strip the land bare; dense human farming supports our population.
These are all technical considerations; they tell little of mindset. The most telling illustration of mindset is the regard vegans have when meat is proffered: they won't eat it. The food will be thrown away; future accommodations won't be made. The act of not eating prison mystery meat or the steak and shrimp served at a wedding does nothing except throw more food in the trash. At business functions, when a significant vegitarian or vegan population exists in the business, meetings which ordered 3 trays now order 4, consuming more (with attached increased suffering to animals) than if the vegans just ate the same food as everyone else.
None of this matters, because veganism is a matter of self: for a vegan to eat meat would be inexcusable even when you could demonstrate absolutely that consuming a vegetable instead would inflict more suffering on animals than if they just ate the meat provided. Consuming meat is an attack on a vegan's personal identity, and would be akin to slicing open your own arm: it cannot be done without significant psychological harm.
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