Splinter Groups (was: Re: pork question)

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> >>>>I don't think splinter groups are inherantly bad. Where would

> vegetarianism be if there were only one school of vegetarian

thought?

>

> What I'm starting to think would be cool is something

> like 'beyondveg.com'. We could call it 'beyondnapd.com'

> or 'beyondwap.com'.

>

> ***I think that's kind of an expected evolution of thought...to try

to go

> beyond what has become " conventional wisdom " or writings even

within an

> unconventional paradigm. Coincidentally, this is exactly the way I

felt last

> year about canine nutrition and BARF. The BARF diet is/was thought

by many

> interested in natural diets to be the 'best' most sensible diet for

dogs

> based on their historical/evolutionary diet. But there were things

that

> bothered me about 'conventional' BARF (as proposed by a few

authors/leaders

> of the approach) and some of the lists i belonged to discouraged

any sort of

> rigorous investigation beyond its basic tenets. so i started my own

list

> (along with a natural rearing breeder) and called it, you guessed

it -

> beyondbarf!

haha, that's great! I remember first coming across beyondveg and

being a little taken aback that some of the people that contributed

were vegetarians. I didn't know how to debunk vegetarian myths at the

time and it seemed like they making themselves their own worst enemy,

but thier feeling was that in the long run, the fallacious arguments

do the movement more harm than good. Odd that I can appreciate them

now!