I read the article. I didn't say the article was trying to convert people or anything like that. The article is meant to inform, which is great, it has some points. However, it also has lots of extraneous information and points where it simply takes a moral high ground. Most of the good points are known to clear thinking omnivores. Slate readers are educated readers. They are not the real audience for this piece. So, we read an article which tells us nothing new. By the end of actually reading it, I was annoyed by the author's tone as well as the article's length. I did read it, and it was a waste of time.