The 'vegan' shuffle
On Mar 5, 4:42*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> >>>>>>>> It's an insincere and time-wasting question.
>
> >>>>>>> So you appear to believe.
>
> >>>>>> Because it is.
>
> >>>>> You reckon?
>
> >>>> Guaranteed.
>
> >>> How do you know?
>
> >> I have lots of experience with your insincerity and time-wasting efforts.
>
> > I don't believe that I have any way of knowing how the number of
> > premature deaths caused per calorically equivalent serving of tofu
> > compares with that for grass-fed beef or wild-caught fish.
>
> You know, intuitively and based on plausibility, that raising the
> vegetable crops you would have to substitute in order to get equivalent
> nutrition causes multiple CDs, and that 100% grass-fed beef or
> wild-caught fish causes none.
No. I don't know that my expected contribution to collateral deaths by
buying one serving of tofu is greater than one.
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