http://statenews.com Camie Heleski loves animals. As a professor of animal behavior and welfare, Heleski also is an owner of cats, dogs and horses, showing she treasures living creatures at both her workplace and home. Except when it comes to her clothes. en-us Foundry4 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:12:49 -0500 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:04 -0500 webmaster@statenews.com http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/9066/view Those quotes from Prof. Heleski blow me away. How anyone can say that killing a cow to make a jacket, when there are SO many other materials you can make jackets out of, could possible be respectful is beyond me. But I love the quotations from the naive moccasined girl who seems to represent the whole of the ignorant (used in the “unknowing” sense, not as an epithet) nation. ‘“I’m not the one that goes out to kill the animals,” she said. “So I don’t really think about it.”’ Though I have said it already in response to another of the vegan-themed articles, as a vegan, I do appreciate the unexpected spread. However, it seems like all the articles are implicitly harmful more than helpful. I can appreciate the necessity for equality in reporting, but I have found that all of the articles seem to be colored with a “look at these people who aren’t vegan and are totally fine with it and here’s why” attitude. That already exists in great supply in America, and a few more articles with that leaning weren’t entirely necessary. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:04 -0500 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/9066/view