Dutch wrote:
> "Glorfindel" > wrote
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>>Aside from the personal attack on me, you are correct. Efforts
>>should be made to decrease the number of collateral deaths in
>>large-scale vegetable farming also. Both are a side-effect
>>of modern technological methods in agriculture.
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> Yet "veganism" addresses only one of these so-called "problems" while
> remaining utterly mute on the other. I can raise a section of wheat,
> including ploughing (or not), seeding, spraying for weeds and pests,
> harvesting, transportation, storage and processing. My field can support
> hundreds of thousands of small animals like mice, moles and toads, not to
> mention grasshoppers and spiders, *many* of which are killed off by my
> intrusions into their domain. Vegans gladly consume the products made from
> these processes with nary a whimper. Yet if I raise one animal and slaughter
> it, the shrill howls of protest go up. Murderer! Where is the logic in this
> way of thinking?
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There are different forms of farming. Read square foot gardening for
example.
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