The 'vegan' shuffle
On 3/6/2012 11:16 PM, Rupert wrote:
> On Mar 6, 4:52 pm, George > 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.
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> On the basis of what evidence do I know it?
Sorry, Woopert - we've been over all this before, and now you're just
trying to refight battles you've already lost.
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