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Default The 'vegan' shuffle

On 3/10/2012 1:40 AM, Rupert wrote:
> On Mar 5, 4:42 pm, George > 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.

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> No. I don't know that


You do know it.