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"ant and dec" > wrote
> Martin Willett wrote:


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>> I don't have a problem with hypocrisy, I make a rule not to eat anything
>> smarter than a pig,

>
> How convenient for you, and inconvenient for the pig. Why have you drawn
> this seemingly arbitrary line at pigs?


It's not arbitrary, he gave the criterion, intelligence.

> unless I really have to. Fortunately that rule
>> doesn't restrict my diet very much. I have a lot of respect for the
>> intelligence of pigs.

>
> But not much respect for the pig?


That doesn't follow.

[..]

>> Oh come on. Veg*ns ooze their sense of moral superiority like Christians
>> and Buddhists, they use it as part of their locomotion, like slugs.

>
> I think this is a problem of your perception.


Oh, puleeeze!