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Default How cruel is leather?

On 12/28/2011 3:43 PM, dh@. wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:12:05 +0000 (UTC), >
> wrote:
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>> dh@. wrote in :
>>
>>> The meat industry provides life for the animals that
>>> it slaughters, and the animals live and die as a
>>> result of it as animals do in other habitats.

>>
>> I'm sure that's true, but would you say it's okay to be cruel to a human
>> being, provided that human would not have been created were it not for the
>> cruelty, which it is genuinely believed will relieve more suffering than it
>> creates? If living creatures are not created, they don't suffer, do they?
>>
>>> From the life and death of a thousand pound grass
>>> raised steer and whatever he happens to kill during
>>> his life, people get over 500 pounds of human
>>> consumable meat...that's well over 500 servings of
>>> meat.

>>
>> You would not say the same about child sex abuser thinking of creating a
>> baby for his own purposes, would you?

>
> Since livestock aren't generally sexually abused by their farmers


You had sex with livestock when you lived on a farm, Goo.