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EDITORIALS
The Guilfordian is the newspaper of the Guilford College
community. Its purpose is to provide information about issues of
concern to the community and to create a forum in which all
segments of the community are invited to express opinions. The
newspaper is open to any group or individual wishing to make
announcements, publicize events, or share information. Though
run by students, the Guilfordian actively seeks the involvement
on the part of faculty, administration, alumni, and all others
who participate in the Guilford experience. We will work with
any project, team, program, or crusade which serves the college
community. We believe that communication is the best way to
combat apathy, ignorance, and misunderstanding.
The human animal has dominated the planet Earth for
centuries. With each passing year, this creature's scientific
knowledge increases in some incredible geometric progression.
The human animal has come to dominate all other life on this
Earth to such a degree that we seem to hold some profane,
egotistical belief that the universe exists for the sole benefit of
humans.
Only within the past two decades have some of our finest
thinkers come to realize that our knowledge may have been
somewhat false, that it was really nothing more than another
form of ignorance hidden beneath the cloak of our collective
ego. The time has come when Nature (the Universe) reveals
human ignorance for what it is.
Perhaps one of the most ecologically important and even
perhaps spiritually ignorant acts practiced by humans is the
domestication of other animals for the purpose of providing a
primary source of food.
This domestication for carnivorous purposes is ecologically
ignorant simply because the human does not need to eat meat
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Grandfather and grandchild
wait for a CARE food
distribution in drought-seared
Africa.
Now is the Time
It is painful to be reminded
again of the massive devasta
tion and widespread human
suffering caused by the long,
searing drought in the
countries of Sahelian Africa
But we must not turn away
from the millions of men,
women and children who cling
so fragilely to life in those
stricken areas.
Famine has followed
drought and help is needed
now more than ever. The
international community has
sent considerable aid, but the
magnitude of the catastrophe
far exceeds the assistance
available.
The Guilfordian
CARE, one of the U.S.
agencies rendering aid in the
area, is distributing millions of
pounds of nutritious survival
foods, medicines and other
vital supplies to African
drought victims. The agency is
also drilling deep wells to
reach desperately needed
water sources, and providing
seeds and fertilizer to enable
families to grow food again.
But the amount of aid
rendered and the number of
lives saved depends upon
contributions from compas
sionate Americans. Those who
wish to help can mail
tax-deductible donations to
CARE African Drought Fa
mine Fund, 2581 Piedmont
Road, N.E., Room 23-A,
Atlanta, Georgia 30324.
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and because the same amount of land that is necessary for
producing one animal for human consumption could be
converted to produce "green" food to feed a much larger
population. For the benefit of anyone who might doubt this, any
library should have dozens, if not hundreds, of books dealing
with the subject.
If the ecological implications of being carnivorous are not
enough, there also exist spiritual implications. There are those
of us who are somewhat appalled that the acme of human
civilization can produce no more sensitive awareness of the
nature of life than a doctrine of destroying animal life to
promote animal life. After all, that plastic hamburger that you
consume was indeed once a living creature.
Obviously, we can only touch upon the various issues of this
question here. It is our hope however that this rather simplistic
editorial will lead to commentary in this paper both from
vegetarians of all types and those who feel that they can provide
insightful criticisms of vegetarianism.
What she needs,
money can't buy.
THE GUILFORDIAN
STAFF
Editor David Green
Managing Editor David Dickinson
Sports Editor Steve Beck
Photographers Toby Gearhart, Fred Taylor
Writers Annette Green, Jon Hiratsuka, Mike
Frost
September 12, 1974
There are old people who
need someone to talk to. Boys
who need fathers. Guys in
veterans' hospitals who need
someone to visit them. Kids who
need tutors.
We know lots of people and
groups who need your help.
Write "Volunteer,"
Washington, D.C. 20013.18
Vfe needyour
The National Center for
Voluntary Action.