"Marvin" > wrote in message
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> "Rubystars" > wrote in message
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> > "Allyb" > wrote in message
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> > > 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. (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

Well because of what you mentioned, and other things, I don't really buy
into the whole CD argument.

-Rubystars