Story from the Telegraph: “Meat should be treated like tobacco with a public campaign to stop people eating it, Jeremy Corbyn’s new vegan shadow farming minister Kerry McCarthy has suggested.”
“Shadow” is not, in this context, a way of describing someone so malnourished that he appears to be a black outline on the ground. It’s a British term for someone who would have a government position if the voters wanted him to have it. Of course a vegan would want everyone else to follow her personal preferences; it’s not just a diet, it’s a moral viewpoint that refuses to masticate anything from anything that can feel pain, from the lowliest fish to a Jeb Bush pollster. It is a noble rejection of the fierce, bloody, cruel ways of nature — which is totally awesome in all other ways and must be respected, mind you, and if animals eat other animals, it’s because they’re, well, animals, and we can’t judge their culture.
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