"Beach Runner" > wrote
>
>
> Dutch wrote:
>> "Glorfindel" > wrote
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>
>> 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? +
>
> There are different forms of farming. Read square foot gardening for
> example.

So what? There's Polyface too
http://www.ecofriendly.com/index.cfm?section=11&page=43 that doesn't change
anything I said.