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Default The 'vegan' shuffle

On Mar 5, 4:42*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:

> >>>>>>>> It's an insincere and time-wasting question.

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> >>>>>>> So you appear to believe.

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> >>>>>> Because it is.

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> >>>>> You reckon?

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> >>>> Guaranteed.

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> >>> How do you know?

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> >> I have lots of experience with your insincerity and time-wasting efforts.

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> > 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.

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> 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.