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Default "collateral included deaths in organic rice production [faq]"

<dh@.> wrote in message ...
> On 2 Sep 2006 11:47:30 -0700, "pearl" > wrote:
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> ><dh@.> wrote in message
> .. .
> >> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:50:33 +0100, "pearl" > wrote:

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> >> >"Regrettably, there probably are some small animal deaths. However,
> >> >the number of deaths in a mile of rice harvesting pales in comparison to
> >> >the road kill on a mile of highway.
> >>
> >> That's an obvious lie, and anyone who's aware that animals don't
> >> live on asphalt should be able to understand why.

> >
> >Where's the obvious lie? Animals traverse highways, and numerous
> >vehicles are constantly speeding along them.., but animals can easily
> >move out of the way of slow machinery making one pass in the field.

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> Even if somehow, incredibly, no animals were killed by harvesters:
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> http://tinyurl.com/gcpzk
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> the environment they had depended on for shelter from predators is
> removed and predators kill them because they have nowhere left
> to hide.


Where are all 'these' frogs coming from, dh@?

Show us some other documentation of this alleged mass slaughter.

<diderot fiction snipped.>
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> Why would I "want to believe" that so many animals are killed in
> rice production.


To feel better about the billions of deaths caused by the livestock industry.

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