On 5/31/2007 10:52 AM, Goo - ****wit David Harrison, a cracker idiot - lied:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007 20:33:16 GMT, > wrote:
>
>> Goo - ****wit David Harrison, a cracker idiot - lied:
>>> On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:50:37 GMT, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>>>
>>>> The correct way to analyze efficiency of production is
>>>> to focus as narrowly as possible on the end product
>>>
>>> And of course in the case of livestock, the lives of
>>> the animals themselves should also always be given
>>> much consideration.
>>>
>>
>>
>> No, the welfare of the animals should be given consideration, not "the
>> lives".
>
> In order to consider whether or not it is cruel to *the animals*
> for them the be raised for food, their lives plus the quality of their
> lives necessarily MUST be given consideration.

No. Their lives - their existence, you mean - deserves *no*
consideration whatever. Their welfare deserves consideration, *if* they
do exist, but not their lives per se.
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