Rupert wrote:

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> Rudy Canoza wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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> Why?

Because it's the only kind that's meaningful for human
choice. Why do you think crude physical efficiency is
relevant? Who cares how much total land is used? Why
*would* anyone care?