"Derek" > wrote in message
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> 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.

There is no meaningful difference.