Thank You Graydon! I've always felt that the vegans & vegitarians were looking down on us meat eaters. They were lording over us there superiority because they didn't harm animals. I see now from a total system perspective that's a crock of bull shit. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Graydon <o...@uniserve.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:14:48AM -0500, frank theriault scripsit: >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: >> > You realize, don't you, if we all went vegan to "save the animals", there >> > would not be enough flora food on the earth to feed us, and we'd go back to >> > killing animals for food, if they hadn't already all been killed to turn >> > their grazing land into farmland. >> >> It may sound like I'm splitting hairs here, but I'm not vegan to "save >> the animals", I'm vegan because I don't want to cause harm to or >> exploit animals. >> >> There's a difference. > > Not really, no. Farming isn't as ecologically destructive as strip > mining, tailings ponds, or paving, but whether you're eating beef or > soybeans, whatever used to live where the farm that grew them now is > doesn't live there any more. > > This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine; farming *of any kind* takes over a > big chunk of ecosystem and gets rid of a lot of animals. You can argue > that it's less direct when you're eating soybeans instead, but you can't > get out of the trophic web no matter what you do, what with being made > out of meat and all. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
