On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:42:27 +0000, Reynard > wrote:

>On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:10:50 GMT, usual suspect > wrote:
>
>>Vegans and animal rights activists trivialize the collateral suffering
>>and death that results from their own food production.
>
>Ipse dixit and false.

· From the life and death of a thousand pound grass raised
steer and whatever he happens to kill during his life, people
get over 500 pounds of human consumable meat...that's well
over 500 servings of meat. From a grass raised dairy cow people
get thousands of dairy servings. Due to the influence of farm
machinery, and *icides, and in the case of rice the flooding and
draining of fields, one meal of soy or rice based product is
likely to involve more animal deaths than hundreds of meals
derived from grass raised cattle. Grass raised animal products
contribute to less wildlife deaths, better wildlife habitat, and
better lives for livestock than soy or rice products. ·