The reporting is bullshit. The (both the linuxjournal and its DasErste source) claims the rules call Linux Journal an extremist forum. The actual rules say
"These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by extremists on extremist forums."
There is a huge difference between matching some of those criteria (which may cause your surveillance data to be retained longer) and actually being targeted for active attacks.
Regarding the longer retention, the Linuxjournal article says that "the Tagesschau story provides new details about how the NSA's XKEYSCORE program decides which traffic to keep indefinitely" but I found no such information in the Tagesschau story (http://web.archive.org/web/20141005083429/http://www.tagessc...)
The consequences of having traffic to one of the tagged sites were never really publicly explained, always just "THE NSA IS WATCHING SPECIFICALLY FOR (random thing the NSA had a selector for)". Given how many people match each of these selectors, just matching one of them can't mean that much.
I understand that vegetarians have a moral code that says not to eat meat, which is fine. I'm not saying that's bad or they should change what they believe. But as a historical question of human diet, there is no controversy.
We have cave paintings all over the world of men chasing large animals. That wasn't a game of tag, they are going to eat them. We know the development of cattle culture, fishing societies, etc, all over the world. Even in India, the one traditional society in which a sizable minority (%25) doesn't eat meat, there is widespread evidence of meat-eating prior to the introduction of vegetarianism by the Jains in ~500 BC. But ancient Hindu civilization is much older than that, and prior to this ate meat (and sacrificed animals). All other ancient civilizations: Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Central American societies -- all ate meat, just as their predecessors, the hunter gatherers ate meat.
It is of course not the only thing people ate -- meat in the ancient world was much harder to come by than today and diets varied greatly. But we humans are omnivores, and if people think this is controversial, then they are refusing to face facts about our history.
