"Rupert" > wrote in message
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> Leslie wrote:
>> Found scrawled in the outhouse on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:25:13
>> GMT, Rudy Canoza
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >Rupert wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Dutch wrote:
>> <snip for brevity>
>> >>
>> >> There is a limit to the reasonable application of words.
>> >> There is no
>> >> reasonable sense in which it is "unfeasible" to become
>> >> vegan. It is
>> >> feasible for me to reduce the extent to which I support
>> >> commerical
>> >> agriculture, but to stop supporting it - well, I'd just be
>> >> interested
>> >> to hear how you propose I would go about doing that.
>> >>
>> Rupert, I did submit a proposal requiring about 35 acres and
>> quite a bit of funding. It
>> would be *possible* for you to entirely do without grocery
>> stores for food; but it's not a
>> realistic probability because of the number of variables. For
>> example, the cow gets sick
>> and needs penicillin. There goes your milk supply for 30 days.
>> You get an early,
>> devastating frost and there goes your veggie garden. You get a
>> wheat/oat fungus and there
>> goes your feed for your livestock. To build your house and
>> sheds you must use lumber. How
>> many creatures are killed, maimed or done out of their nests
>> in that process?
>>
>> You see, you can't get entirely away from collateral damage or
>> death in the course of
>> trying to survive. It was never meant to be that black and
>> white. You can't count on the
>> vagaries of weather, disease and natural disasters like floods
>> or tornados. Accept your
>> role. Believe me, non-vegans will respect you for accepting
>> your responsibility. And you
>> can respect yourself for being honest.
>>
>> Fair warning: that will be my last effort to bring you into
>> reality nicely and reasonably.
>> Further stubborn adherence to the common vegan misconceptions
>> about contributory
>> destruction may trigger my less pleasant side.
>>
>
> I never suggested I could get away from collateral damage or
> death in
> the course of trying to survive. I do believe, however, that
> there is a
> moral obligation to make every reasonable effort to minimize
> one's
> contribution to animal suffering.
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Again, you are ailing miserably at this, fool.



It seems to me that avoiding animal
> products is a reasonable way of doing that. If you have any
> other
> suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.
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No, you don't want any suggestions. You want to spew your hate
of others, killer. You focus only on what you think othes are
doing, yet do NOTHING in regards to your own actions. Proof one
is your continued inane posting to usenet, hypocrite.


>
>> Cheers 2 U,
>>
>> Leslie
>> "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human
>> stupidity.
>> And I'm not sure about the former.".... Albert Einstein
>