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> rick wrote:
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>> > rick wrote:
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>> >> > rick wrote:
>> >> >> "Dave" > wrote in message
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>> >> >> Maybe you should watch the meatrix video posted
>> >> >> elsewhere
>> >> >> in
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> group earlier this month.
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>> >> >> Like vegans, they are adamantly against 'factory-farms.'
>> >> >> Their
>> >> >> solution? Give up?
>> >> >> Nope, eat local, eat alternatives.
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>> >> >> They get it, why can't you?
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>> >> > I do get it. eat alternatives is the solution. The
>> >> > alternatives
>> >> > can be
>> >> > direct alternatives such as your grass fed beef or
>> >> > indirect
>> >> > alternatives
>> >> > like nuts and legumes.
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>> >> Nope. Those are not alternatives that change the method of
>> >> production of meat.
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>> > A consumer who buys grass fed beef fuels the demand for
>> > grass fed beef. A consumer who buys nuts and legumes fuels
>> > the demand for nuts and legumes. Neither directly fuels the
>> > demand for feedlot beef. Nuts, legumes and beef are all
>> > food and in the broad sense they are alternatives to each
>> > other.
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>> Not in terms of changing the method of beef production that
>> you
>> claim to dislike.
>> Thanks for proving you'd rather be pig-headed than rational.
>> Buying nuts will not
>> provide for a change in the production methods for beef.
>> Buying
>> grass-fed beef will.
>> That is the direct alternative to factory-farmed beef, not
>> nuts
>> and beans.
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> We've been here. I am not the one being pig-headed about this.
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Yes, you are.


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