“I’m a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian”

[HumaneWatch]

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<a href="http://www.brigidmarlin.com/Pages/Portraits/Dalai.html"><img align="right" alt="" border="2" src="http://humanewatch.org/images/uploads/Dalai_Lama_tempera.jpg" style="padding: 5px; margin-left: 5px; width: 183px; height: 223px;" /></a>It's hard to keep up with all the self-promotional press releases from the Humane Society of the United States, but one caught our eye this week. It appears that Humane Society International has convinced the 14th Dalai Lama to <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/08/dalai-lama-egg-recall-iowa-farms.html">sign a letter</a> condemning the consumption of eggs from chickens kept in cages.</p>
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An emotional appeal to a spiritual leader is, we suppose, all that's left when <a href="http://www.humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/runny_egg_logic">science isn&rsquo;t on your side</a>.The boilerplate language suggests that HSUS's P.R. department, not the Lama, wrote the text. The letter's release is clearly designed to keep pressure on egg farmers during the Salmonella crisis.</p>
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The Dalai Lama is certainly entitled to his opinion, but we disagree.</p>

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