"rick etter" > wrote:
> "ataxia" > wrote:

Just a couple of points:

> > How many animals died for my diet and lifestyle today?
> ======================
> You tell me. Vegans make the claim that they automatically kill fewer
> animals. If they make that claim, you'd think that have measured the before
> and after deaths from a dietary change. Have you? The vegans here would
> love to have those numbers. Not a single one here has ever been able to
> back up the claim that their diet causes less.

A USDA survey (unfortunately a few years old now) suggests the average
American eats about 25 grams of beef per day. That seems like a
reasonable number to me, given my prior eating habits, and the habits
of folks I know. Ms. Cow weighs about 453592 grams (on the low side,
and let's pretend she's boneless). So I am saving--here it comes--ONE
COW EVERY FORTY-NINE POINT SEVEN YEARS!!!!

So, by the time I'm 82, I'll have saved one cow of my very own.

(You see, this is why I don't claim I'm individually saving herds of
cattle with every bite of tasty gluten.)



> ==================
> Then why? Why are you even in this post, snipping out parts of my post and
> then replying to what is not there anymore? The convention is to at least
> annotate when you do make the snips, unless of course the idea is to change
> the meaning of your reply because the readers doesn't have the side you're
> replying to.

I don't always put snip marks, because I trust the reader to have
access to the post I'm replying to. And I'm not aware of any
compelling convention to put them there.


> BTW, did you check out the rant just before this? Perfect example of loony
> hatred and stupidity.

Ah, for a threaded newsreader....

-anaphylax