C. James Strutz wrote:

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>>C. James Strutz wrote:
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>>>>How do you justify the deaths of animals, birds, and fish from the use
>>>>of heavy machinery, pesticides (even in organic farming), storage, and
>>>>transportation? The only thing that changes in a veg-n diet is that one
>>>>no longer EATS animal parts. That does nothing to change the fact that
>>>>animals still die horrid deaths from flooded fields, pesticide use,
>>>>being run over by combines and other farm machinery, etc.
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>>>There are many times more collateral deaths resulting from crop
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>>>for the cattle industry than it would take to feed an equivalent number
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>>>people directly.
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>>Answer the question, moron. The question was, How do you justify the
>>suffering and deaths of all kinds of animals in the production of veg-n
>>food as well as meat? If you consider a veg-n diet to be of a higher
>>moral or ethical dimension than a meat-based diet, it should matter to
>>you that your diet is qualitatively and quantitatively responsible for
>>pain, suffering, and death, just like any other diet.
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> Vegan and vegetarian lifestyle contributes less to pain, suffering, and
> death of animals.

It contributes VASTLY more to animal death and
suffering than it does to human death and suffering.
You are making an INVALID comparison, ****drip.