"Ron" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, "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.
>
> Links, or creating causal relationships is also known as the logical
> fallacy of insignificant cause.

This is not an example of insignificant cause.

The following example is quite parallel to the case of the rice consumer.

"Thus, it is not a fallacy to say that you helped defeat the Tory government
because you voted Reform, for your vote had as much weight as any other
vote, and hence is equally a part of the cause."
See the following link.. http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/insig.php