On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:19:29 +0100, "pearl" > wrote:

><dh@.> wrote in message ...
>> On 2 Sep 2006 11:47:30 -0700, "pearl" > wrote:
>>
>> ><dh@.> wrote in message
>> .. .
>> >> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:50:33 +0100, "pearl" > wrote:
><..>
>> >> >"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.
>>
>> Even if somehow, incredibly, no animals were killed by harvesters:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/gcpzk
>>
>> 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@?

Upstream.

>Show us some other documentation of this alleged mass slaughter.
>
><diderot fiction snipped.>
>..
>> 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.

Since you don't believe there are a significant number of cds involved
with crop production, which deaths do you think you're referring to, have
you any idea?