The 'vegan' shuffle
On Mar 6, 4:52*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> On 3/6/2012 12:46 AM, Rupert wrote:
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> > On Mar 5, 4:42 pm, George > *wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>>> 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.
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> > 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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> Of course you do. *You can't *NOT* know it.
On the basis of what evidence do I know it?
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