"Anon" > wrote in message
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> There is a karmic consequence regardless of whether or not your
> meat causes more harm than my lentils. Ignore at your own
> peril.
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Thanks for proving it yet again...



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> "rick" > wrote in message
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>> "Anon" > wrote in message
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>>>> Eh? Where did the term 'murder' come from? One cannot
>>>> murder animals. We can, and do, kill them. But murder is
>>>> not what takes place.
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>>> I'm sorry. You did not use the word murder. I should have
>>> gone back and read more carefully.
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>>>> Why? At least eating a steak is a survival need. Killing
>>>> animals for usenet entertainment is not.
>>>> So, you then subsitute that steak with a tofu roast. How
>>>> many animals died from the plowing, spraying, seeding, and
>>>> harvesting those beans into something you can eat? The beef
>>>> I eat produces 100s of meals with just the one death.
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>>> Eating a steak is not a survival need. Eating is a survival
>>> need. Even if one cow produced 100s of meals, the cow ate
>>> 5-7 lbs of grain per pound of beef. The plowing, spraying,
>>> seeding, and harvesting applies to those also.
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>> Try reading again. The beef I eat does is not fed ANY grains
>> or crops. Thanks for proving once again the closed-minded
>> mantra of usenet vegans.
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>>> What are you defining as animal? Certainly not insects.
>>> Mice?
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>> I never include bugs, but if mice are not animals, then why
>> all the fake concern about them when used in labs?
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>>>> No. Abstaining from meat in no way automatically means you
>>>> are doing 'better' than eating any type of meat-included
>>>> diet. Have you even bothered to compare the foods you eat
>>>> with each other? I doubt it. No vegan here on usenet has
>>>> even thought of it because the religion has told you that
>>>> all you need do is avoid meats.
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>>> I don't understand how comparing my diet to other vegans (I
>>> am not vegan by the way) would affect anything. Why would it
>>> matter what they ate?
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>> Again, try reading for comprhension. vegans should compare
>> the foods they eat. Not to other vegans, but between foods.
>> What crops cause more/less death and suffering? Rice?
>> potatoes? brocolli? bananas? vegans don't know, and more
>> importantly, they don't care! All they want is to spew and
>> rant about what they think others are doing. If they want to
>> have an impact, they should first start with what THEY eat.
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>>> The point is, no matter how you look at it, sticking to a
>>> vegan diet does less harm than eating beef or other farm
>>> animal. Please tell me why this is not true.
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>> Becuase all the crops you eat are causing massive deaths and
>> suffering to animals. tell me how much collateral death is
>> associated with game meats. As long as there is an exapmle,
>> the automatic gains vegans claims are just a delusion.
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>>> Also, please explain what animals I am killing by posting on
>>> Usenet and how I am contributing to their deaths by posting
>>> here.
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>> Lookup power generation/distribution and communications.
>> Study the Hudson River estuary. It's estimated that the 3
>> power plants there kill 3 billion fish. That's just 3 power
>> generators out of 13000+ in the US. Estimates range from 3 to
>> 8% of power used by the internet. Millions upon millions of
>> birds are kill by towers every year. Learn some facts about
>> your entire lifestyle. Diet has a small impact overall.
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>>> Thank you.
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