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> Dutch wrote:
>> > wrote
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>> > Well, I would question whether we have the right to kill the cattle for
>> > food, unless it could somehow be shown that we were actually reducing
>> > the number of animal deaths by doing this.
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>> It is very reasonable to conclude that this is at least *sometimes* the
>> case, but why does the number of animals who live or who die have any
>> bearing on our right to use them as a food resource or kill them in
>> producing one? This is a silly notion that vegans swallow hook, line, and
>> sinker.
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> Because we have an obligation not to kill sentient animals
> unnecessarily.

1. No we don't, there is no such obligation
2. All animals are sentient
3. Everything you do has an impact and hence carries a collateral cost.
Therefore by eating that second helping, that ftuit cocktail, or taking that
vacation, all unecessary, you kill sentient animals unecessarily.