On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:59:00 +0100, "pearl" > wrote:

><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!

Some are. Here's something else you can't comprehend: there are
sometimes tadpoles too. Something else you won't be able to grasp:
there is often still water behind the flood gates where eggs are laid
and tadpoles hatch and live, and when the gate is opened the eggs
and tadpoles are swept along with the water.

>> >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.

Which ones?