Gary Beckwith wrote:

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> rick etter wrote:
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>>Some are. Some are slaughtered right on the farms at smaller operations.
>>But, the fact still remains, they die a far more humane death than the
>>animals that die for your cheap, conveninet veggies.
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> can someone tell me what the heck you are talking about? that is
> ludicrous. you people keep saying this but have not substantiated it a
> single time. what animals are dying by the production of this organic
> carrot in my hand? get real.

How do you suppose that carrot was grown, DUMMY? The
field was tilled by large machinery, for starters.
That kills burrowing animals and birds. During the
period the carrots were growing, pest animals were
killed in order to prevent them from eating the
carrots. Those animals are just as dead, whether or
not the means of killing them were "organic". Then,
the carrots were mechanically harvested, again by heavy
machinery driving through the fields, destroying animals.

But you don't only eat carrots. You eat rice and
cereal grains and all kinds of thing whose production
and distribution causes the death of animals. You
simply don't eat the animals that are killed. They are
just as dead, irrespective of if you eat them.