2009-01-04
2010-12-27, if you can′t convince them, force them?
If you happen to not know 
animalwrongs.com, I really recommend you to have a look at it. This month, I found a very amusing (at least in some sort of way) article about a company that (tries to?) force a vegetarian lifestyle upon their employies, something that earned the company a complaint at the human rights commission:
A former employee, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that she was forced to sneak meat into her purse and hide it in her car to get around the companyâs strict no-meat policy.
“Itâs a free country,” she told the broadcaster. “I think we should eat what we want.”
Companies have a right to protect the safety of their workplace and the integrity of their product, but the issue becomes murkier when a business requires an employeeâs commitment to the philosophy of the brand, said Cara Zwibel, director of the fundamental freedoms project at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Well, the company leaders are veggies, aren′t they? So what do you except of them? Tolerance? Or rather a firm conviction, that they have the only truth™ and that anybody who disagrees with them is just ignorant or stupid, leaving no other choice than to force the truth upon them…
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