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# Let them eat meat
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/let-them-eat-meat-editor/
- Published: 2008-01-08T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T17:52:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Mike Kirwan*

If Katie Hobkirk (“Meat eaters should go veggie,” page 4, Jan. 5-6 ) wants to be a vegetarian, she has the right to do so. I have the right to eat meat. I have energy. Meat is too delicious and satisfying to give up. But I promise to give up eating animals if any animal rights people will kill themselves and give me their bodies to eat instead.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 8, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/010808.pdf?ref=smdp.com)