On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:35:07 -0600, "Russ Thompson" > wrote:

>
>Beach Runner said in responce to the question:
>"What exactly is the "vegan movement?"
>
>> That is an excellent question. The end of factory farming animals,
>
>*** What a load of manure. Vegans and animal rights types are certainly NOT
>aginst "factory farming". The fact that it is the small family farmers that
>they are assising to put out of business first should make this obvious to
>any reasonable person.
> The fact is that the number of small family farms such as ours decreases
>every years and the number of large farms increases every year. The vegan /
>animal rights crowd are helping to speed this process up
> When a vegan / animal rights types uses information, disinformation,
>half trueths, and propaganda to discourage others from consuming animal
>products who do you think it is who suffers? The large farm with huge
>amounts of capital behind them that allow them to take the resulting lower
>prices or the small family farmer who is operating under slim margins
>already?
> The interesting thing is that if the vegan / animal rights types where
>actually interested in getting rid of "factory farming" they would find a
>lot of support and allies among the small family farmers. In fact the anti
>"factory farm" retoric from each group sounds about the same.
>
>Kala Thompson
>Farmer
>Richland Center, Wi

They are opposed to seeing the fact pointed out that some types of
meat involve less animal deaths than some types of veggies. That alone
is enough to show that they don't really care about human influence on
animals. All they appear to care about is promoting veg*nism, and there's
no doubt that veg*nism does nothing to promote better lives for animals
raised for food.