A chewing out

“So it made practical, personal and spiritual sense to change. I started eating meat again,” says Nina Utne (“Utne -- the Magazine That Comes With an Action Plan,” Nov. 7).

What’s practical about eating flesh -- or, rather, what’s impractical about eschewing it? What could make spiritual sense about chewing and swallowing the product of pain and slaughter?

Utne gave up and bowed to the animal killers in order to “make practical sense”: a cowardly way to beg for acceptance. What’s next? A barbecue at the Crawford ranch?

Michele Mooney

Van Nuys