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Councilor's Name: Councilor Oldkirk

Bill to Propose: Remove all animal products from the compound
Additional Notes: Animals are not ours to eat or wear, yet our cafeteria and councilor penthouse serve meat dishes with alarming regularity. Not only that, but there are coats made of fur and animal skin in the marketplace! Therefore, I propose we ban all products used on the compound that are derived from animals. We must never kill or exploit animals for any reason whatsoever -- to do so is a sin against nature.

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Re: DISCUSSION

[highondaylight.livejournal.com]

Even if I agreed that it was a sin to kill or exploit animals - which I do not - I would like to point out three things that make your suggestion patently ludicrous.

First: That there are several species amongst the Agents here that are purely carnivorous in nature, literally incapable of properly processing plant-based material. To deny them meat would literally be sentencing them to death or forcing them to quit their employ here. I, myself, require some amount of human blood to be at my best, which would strictly ban me from having a complete diet on campus.

Second: Removing meat from the diet of omnivorous species, such as the humans that represent the majority, requires significant dietary monitoring and use of supplements - many of which use animal components as filler, ironically! Given that we cannot and do not enforce dietary policies, due to the aforementioned species issue, to remove meat would be to cause a massive decrease of overall health of Agents, making our purpose much tougher.

Third: If we work off the idea that using animals is a sin, then technically, relying on other human beings - who are, themselves, animals, lest we forget - is sin as much. Indeed, to live is to 'sin', essentially inherently. To be selective in our sinning like that is rather silly, is it not?