Rupert wrote:

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> Rudy Canoza wrote:
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>>>The main point of veganism is to boycott factory-farming, which causes
>>>animals to lead miserable lives.
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>>>The animals who live on factory farms have to be fed with plant
>>>products, the production of which will cause the death of wildlife.
>>>Animal products are an inefficient use of land,
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>>False. You have no useful definition of efficiency to
>>support that claim. It's purely a value judgment, not
>>a reasoned finding.
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> Well, more land is required to produce a given quantity of animal
> protein than same quantity of plant protein.

So what? Minimizing land use per unit of nutrient
produced is not the measure of efficiency at all.
We're talking, or should be, about *economic*
efficiency of resource use, not physical efficiency.

You did exactly as predicted.

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>>I know where you'll go with this. I'm ready for you.
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> Good to hear.
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>>>so their production
>>>will cause more death of wildlife than the production of plant products
>>>to be fed directly to human beings.
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>>>As for the argument that ruminant-pasture food production causes fewer
>>>deaths than some forms of plant food production, the following article
>>>is worth a look:
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>>>http://courses.ats.rochester.edu/nob...least-harm.pdf
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