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> rick wrote:
>> > wrote in message
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>> > Dutch wrote:
>> >> > wrote
>> >>
>> >> > 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.
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > Because we have an obligation not to kill sentient animals
>> > unnecessarily.
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>> Then you're lying to yourself. Why are you here on usenet?
>> This
>> isn't necessary, and just for entertainment. It causes
>> massive
>> amounts of death and suffering to animals.
>
> The institution of Usenet causes massive amounts of death and
> suffering
> to animals.
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Instutution? Are you projecting about your next home? Again,
read some sites...

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> I think I'd like to see a more detailed defence of that claim.
>
>> All unnecessary!
>> But then, it appears that to you, like most vegans, cows are
>> somehow more sentient than other mammals, birds, reptiles,
>> fish
>> and amphibians.
>
> No.
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Then why is it bad to kill one cow, but ok to kill many smaller
animals for the same calories?


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>> How is that possible?
>>
>>
>> >
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