On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:08:17 GMT, "Marvin" > wrote:

>
>"Rubystars" > wrote in message
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>> "Allyb" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > How does a serving of tofu kill animals? Please include
>your source, I'm
>> > curious.
>> >
>> > Allyb
>>
>> There's a group of people in here who focus on collateral
>damage of farming,
>> and say that's just as bad (or worse) for animals as meat
>eating.
>>
>> They're referring to the mice and birds and other animals in
>the crop fields
>> that are harmed by chemicals and harvesting machines, etc.
>>
>> I'm not sure how they calculate the numbers, exactly, but
>they claim that a
>> serving of tofu could involve more animal deaths (from CDs)
>than one serving
>> of beef that came from one cow.
>>
>> -Rubystars
>
>Where I live, grass feeding requires tons of hay during winter
>months at least. There may be places where cattle can survive
>by grazing the range year around, but I'm not familiar with
>them. I've never done a count, but I've mowed enough hay to
>know that ground nesting birds, rabbits, and reptiles are
>sometimes killed in the process.

If you compare what it takes to produce hay and what it
takes to produce soy beans, which do you think would
involve the deaths of more animals? How about if you
compare what it takes to produce hay and what it takes
to produce rice?

>(The same is true for mowing
>the yard, by the way. Perhaps someone should question the
>morality of that.) It seems to me that people have to accept
>the fact that our lives depend on the deaths of at least some
>other living things no matter what our diets consist of.
>Religions have made food a moral issue for thousands of years,
>of course, but attempts to do so on logical grounds don't hold
>up very well when examined closely.
>
>Marvin Doolin
>