On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:36:32 -0800, "Dutch" > wrote:
>"Derek" > wrote
>
>> Ipse dixit and false. Show where Matheny's article links
>> vegetarianism to the collateral deaths associated in crop
>> production,
>
>If consuming meat links the consumer to the deaths in meat production, and I
>agree it does, then consuming rice links the consumer to the deaths in rice
>production.

No. It only links the consumer the death of his rice.
Collateral deaths are contingent to the production
of rice, not antecedent to it.