frlpwr wrote:

> Jon wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
>
>>"vegans", or so-called
>>"ethical vegetarians", engage in a classic logical
>>fallacy: Denying the Antecedent. It runs like this:
>>
>> If I eat meat, I cause animals to suffer and die.
>>
>> I do not eat meat;
>>
>> Therefore, I do not cause animals to suffer and die.
>
>
> Why do you refuse to be corrected on this point?
>
> The above should go like this:
>
> If I eat meat, I cause farmed animals to suffer and die.

Because that's not the thinking, and it would be absurd
to think it could be. The insertion of the silly
qualifier doesn't help, you stupid ****, because there
is no conceivable rationale for giving different
consideration to farmed animals.