On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:24:22 +0000, ipse dixit > wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:04:22 GMT, wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:38:33 +0000, ipse dixit > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>That's no guarantee that the farmer won't finish
>>>his beef in a feedlot on grains far from home
>>>later on in the year.
>>
>> If someone happens to eat beef like that it wouldn't
>>really matter anyway
>
>It does matter when farmers lie to their customers,

The lying matters. The CDs don't, according to the
thinking of some veg*ns around here. How about you?
Do the CDs you contribute to with your diet matter? How
about by your use of paper, wood, electricity, roads,
buildings, etc?

>whatever you believe.
>
>>>Farmers are notorious liars
>>
>> Veg*ns like yourself are the most dishonest people
>>I've ever had anything to do with.
>
>Your opinion of vegans matters nothing, Harrison.
>
>> Farmers have always
>>been honest even when it hurts.
>
>Then why do they intentionally infect their own
>cattle with painful, deadly diseases?

To make them sick. Why did you think they do it?

>That's not
>being "honest even when it hurts",

It is if they don't want to make their cattle sick, and
only do it as a last resort that they hate to do.

>and neither
>is their lying to customers which YOU think
>"wouldn't really matter anyway."

The lying does matter. But what and who
does it matter to?