“Going Green” by Rachel Dunstan Muller
12/2/2004
The boy settled down on the bench under the skydome. The long night was drawing to a close as his father began the story.
“Well son, it all started with SKALO, the Society for Kindness to All Living Organisms. SKALO was a group that made your garden-variety vegetarian look positively carnivorous. Not only did its members avoid all animal products in their diet, but they believed that wrenching a carrot from the ground was an unnecessary act of violence. The ‘fruitarians’ of SKALO limited themselves to fruits, nuts, and seeds, food freely given, involving little if any brutality or loss of life.”
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