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> "If the spices I needed were available locally I would
> [consume only locally grown produce]."
>
> - Skanky Carpetmuncher, 27 Dec 2004


Waa waa, poor Jay. You needed to start a whole
new crossposted thread for this old stuff again?

And you're back to insults rather than arguments.
'Skanky Carpetmuncher'. What's that? An unbathed
*******? LOL ))))

> When and if they learn about CDs, "vegans" are forced
> to acknowledge that they do not live a "cruelty free"
> life, merely by following the "vegan" rule of "do not
> consume animal parts." The usual course of retreat is
> to make an intermediate stop at the false claim, "I am
> doing the best I can to reduce animal death." This is
> quickly seen to be a false claim: different vegetable
> crops cause different numbers of CDs. The production
> of rice, for example, is exceptionally lethal to
> animals, far more so than other starchy grains. To the
> extent the "vegan" eats rice rather than other, less
> lethal grains, she is not "doing the best she can" not
> to cause animal death.


Despite variances in individual foods, you know
full well that eating vegan causes way, way less
cds as a whole than the animal product industry
as a whole, due to livestock's extensive need
for far more cropland (thus more cds).

> There is no question that she is NOT "doing her best",
> as she could easily forgo the spices. She has, for the
> SECOND time, retreated from the claim "I'm doing the
> best I can" to the vastly weaker claim of "I think I'm
> doing better than you, which is good enough for me."


I never made a claim of doing better than you.
Is this one of those 'implied' things you see so
often in people's writings?




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SN
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