Seriously, do you think you can keep on consuming meat and dairy and propping up the nefarious agro-industrial infrastructure required to produce your cheeseburgers forever, without dire consequences? Well, I hate to break it to you, but your eating habits are slowly but surely murdering the earth. Eventually, humans are going to have to go vegan—or perish in a world ravaged by the wasteful methods of bringing flank steak and kung pao chicken to your greedy maw. (Read George C. Wang’s “Go Vegan, Save the Planet” on CNN.com for elaboration.)
Now, you may think that the preceding paragraph is unnecessarily harsh. I get it. You’re simply an aspiring scholar trying to get an education that will forever cripple you with debt. Such ambition is admirable. But what you decide to toss down your gullet while you pursue your ambitions has ecological and political ramifications. This shit is too important to mutter “whatevs” while you stuff another pork rind in your face hole. Carnivore-shaming has its time and place, and that time and place is college.
