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Default How cruel is leather?

"Jahbulon" > wrote
> dh@. wrote
>
>>> 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 there's no reason to try comparing those
>> completely different situations as if they weren't
>> completely different.

>
> You don't think it's okay to eat babies just as long if you were not
> eating
> them the babies would not be born in the first place, do you?


He has no coherent answer to anything.

Why should
> it be different for animals in the rich first world where we have more
> healthy alternatives?


Meat is highly nutritious in the right proportions. Other foods also
contribute to animal suffering.