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

<dh@.> wrote in message ...
> 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.


Yeah... like in Texas flowing streams are swarming with frogs .. Rotfl!

> >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?


Of course. You haven't? Is there anything at all between your ears?