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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:39:09 -0700
Dutch wrote: Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:00 -0700 Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:43:26 -0700, "Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess" wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:32:27 -0700 Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: The fact that people who don't feel they have what could be considered a truly "good" life don't all kill themselves tells us that life still has positive value to them It doesn't have to be a "positive" value. People can be motivated by negative values too ("revenge" could be an example). It's still positive in respect that they want to continue living. Those people already exist, life only has value to a being once they exist. That's a logical point. It's a useless thing for anyone to ever make a point of except for the fact that I made a mistake in terminology about a decade ago It is not a mistake in terminology, it is a fundamental error in logic which persists in your arguments to this day. and some people referred to as the goos still dishonestly insist that I believe unconceived potential future "beings" can somehow "suffer a loss" if "they" never experience life. It's a lie, though I do consider the possibility that there could be multiple lives somehow. I don't have a true belief, but do NOT believe unconceived potential beings experience any sort of loss for not being born as livestock. That doesn't mean I can't appreciate it when they are and experience decent lives of positive value TO THEM. Eliminationists can't afford to consider that aspect of human influence on animals, but anyone who favors decent AW over elimination certainly should both consider and appreciate it. Appreciation for that aspect is something eliminationists are opposed to, as you can see by the goos' behavior. There are three goos, which include Goo himself, his boy "Dutch" and his boy "Derek". In this thread we only have Goo and "Dutch", both of whom are maniacally opposed to taking decent lives of livestock into consideration. "Dutch" claims to have tried it once, and it made him feel "dirty". It made him feel dirty to have appreciation for lives of positive value for the animals he claims to consume. That's one of the ways he reveals that he does NOT favor AW over elimination. That's a lie, and you KNOW it, both of us favor continuing to raise livestock (over the elimination of livestock) AND we both favor the provision of good welfare over the neglect or abuse of animals (TWO separate and distinct choices) I think it's pretty obvious that there's a consensus in the value of Animal Welfare. I wonder if things may have gotten off track also because there's may be a hint of various perceptions of cannibalism that are subconsciously being applied to eating animals. Although cannibalism is generally regarded as a horrific practice by many people who are not familiar with it, there are some societies that value it as an important practice because it frees the deceased's spirit from limbo, making it possible to progress to some notion of an afterlife (or reincarnation). (Interestingly, some cannibalistic tribes have been known to not eat their enemies as a means of punishment that prevents them from progressing where they might continue to wage war against their fallen brethren.) The fact is that humans are natural predators, and eating meat is a normal life experience for most people. The problem is that many food animals are raised and slaughtered without regard for their comfort and pain, which I suspect is the crux of the issue. I agree with everything you said, except that animal welfare is not part of the issue in the debate between [email protected] and everyone else. He tries to make it appear that it is, but that's just one of his smokescreens. The crux if his position is that users of animals and animal products should take pride in the fact that those animals "get to experience life" and conversely vegans ("eliminationists") as he calls them) do not sponsor animals getting to experience life. Also anyone who rejects his nonsense is labelled as an "eliminationist". I don't see the need for taking pride in that, because the life experience is merely incidental to being alive regardless of the duration of one's life. I'm interested in learning more about the motivations behind this expectation of taking pride in this way. The "idea" that "those who don't consume animal products aren't contributing directly" is a bit of a misnomer (I'm not pointing the finger here, but just examining the idea for its own merits), for an indirect contribution as a result of less demand for meat products is logically expected to reduce the overall number of food animals being raised for slaughter. The assumed causal effect is that fewer animals should be mistreated in the context of fewer animals being raised for slaughter, which is central to the total number of animals (based on basic overall population counts) rather than a percentage (based on the intrinsic habits/policies of handlers). -- Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess "Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists." -- Dan Quayle |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:50:57 -0700, "Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist
goddess" wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:00 -0700 Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:43:26 -0700, "Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess" wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:32:27 -0700 Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: The fact that people who don't feel they have what could be considered a truly "good" life don't all kill themselves tells us that life still has positive value to them It doesn't have to be a "positive" value. People can be motivated by negative values too ("revenge" could be an example). It's still positive in respect that they want to continue living. Those people already exist, life only has value to a being once they exist. That's a logical point. It's a useless thing for anyone to ever make a point of except for the fact that I made a mistake in terminology about a decade ago It is not a mistake in terminology, it is a fundamental error in logic which persists in your arguments to this day. and some people referred to as the goos still dishonestly insist that I believe unconceived potential future "beings" can somehow "suffer a loss" if "they" never experience life. It's a lie, though I do consider the possibility that there could be multiple lives somehow. I don't have a true belief, but do NOT believe unconceived potential beings experience any sort of loss for not being born as livestock. That doesn't mean I can't appreciate it when they are and experience decent lives of positive value TO THEM. Eliminationists can't afford to consider that aspect of human influence on animals, but anyone who favors decent AW over elimination certainly should both consider and appreciate it. Appreciation for that aspect is something eliminationists are opposed to, as you can see by the goos' behavior. There are three goos, which include Goo himself, his boy "Dutch" and his boy "Derek". In this thread we only have Goo and "Dutch", both of whom are maniacally opposed to taking decent lives of livestock into consideration. "Dutch" claims to have tried it once, and it made him feel "dirty". It made him feel dirty to have appreciation for lives of positive value for the animals he claims to consume. That's one of the ways he reveals that he does NOT favor AW over elimination. That's a lie, and you KNOW it, both of us favor continuing to raise livestock (over the elimination of livestock) AND we both favor the provision of good welfare over the neglect or abuse of animals (TWO separate and distinct choices) I think it's pretty obvious that there's a consensus in the value of Animal Welfare. I wonder if things may have gotten off track also because there's may be a hint of various perceptions of cannibalism that are subconsciously being applied to eating animals. Although cannibalism is generally regarded as a horrific practice by many people who are not familiar with it, there are some societies that value it as an important practice because it frees the deceased's spirit from limbo, making it possible to progress to some notion of an afterlife (or reincarnation). (Interestingly, some cannibalistic tribes have been known to not eat their enemies as a means of punishment that prevents them from progressing where they might continue to wage war against their fallen brethren.) The fact is that humans are natural predators, and eating meat is a normal life experience for most people. The problem is that many food animals are raised and slaughtered without regard for their comfort and pain, which I suspect is the crux of the issue. Many of them have decent lives of positive value too, and imo the majority of them do. Eliminationists are opposed to us taking those lives into consideration though because providing billions of livestock animals with lives of positive value works against the elimination objective. Nothing would be worse for eliminationists than for all animals raised for food to have lives of positive value and humane deaths, and for their consumers to be aware of it. What could work against their hopes for elimination any more than that? Those people not only are incapable of distinguishing between lives that seem to be of negative value and those which seem to be of positive, but they're incapable of recognising any livestock lives at all that appear to be of positive value. In the following list of URLs most if not all of the animals pictured appear to have lives of positive value imo, yet eliminationists can't recognise a single one that appears to be of positive value to them. Can you? http://www.agrabilityproject.org/ima...ge002_0015.jpg http://www.karlschatz.com/yearoftheg...es/skyland.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2305/...b1a8025730.jpg http://www.quailhunt.net/images/Quail%20Farm2.jpg http://images.usatoday.com/news/_pho.../04/10/egg.jpg http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography...s/duckpond.jpg http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/Sheep.jpg http://www.seldomseenfarm.co.uk/imag...se%20540-2.jpg http://www.jamesranch.net/images/home_cow_red_cliff.jpg http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/.../mds_p7f11.JPG http://www.drgobbler.com/images/turkeys.JPG http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/...0Q2LI/610x.jpg http://www.cohabnet.org/images/img_issue3.2_lrg.jpg http://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2008/01/389523.gif http://www.colleenpatrick.com/blog/u...-13-782938.jpg http://www.sprucedale.com/images/feedlot.jpg http://www.saucierquail.com/farm4.jpg http://www.fwi.co.uk/Assets/GetAsset...ItemID=3802569 http://www.banhdc.org/images/ch-hor-20060319.jpg http://www.sheep101.info/Images/VAfeedlot.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ss-fedCows.jpg http://bentleycellars.com/db2/00200/...SheepRanch.JPG http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2...15_feedlot.jpg http://www.agralarm.com/images/400_Texas_Broilers.jpg http://www.circlekquailfarm.com/200%20x%20134.JPG http://www.moonridgefarm.co.uk/USERI...re%20quail.jpg http://www.therunningduckfarm.com/images/fieldtripw.jpg http://www.agriproducts.com.au/verve...heep2_page.jpg http://www.harveyquarterhorseranch.c.../allhorses.jpg http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/Asmawi%20M.%20Tahir.jpg http://www.realclimate.org/images/Sheep.jpg http://www.cps.gov.on.ca/french/ev10000/ev10703.jpg http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040212/wd6.jpg http://www.mtexpress.com/2000/06-21-00/u21cov1.jpg http://www.farm-energy.ca/IReF/uploa.../Lighting2.jpg http://www.piercefarmwatch.org/image...lsurvivors.jpg http://www.mountvernonfarm.net/images/cows1.jpg http://www.biblicalresearchreports.c..._bare_dirt.jpg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image..._bank416ap.jpg http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uima...MorrisBeef.jpg http://www.alcockhorseranch.com/images/horse.gif http://www.boerdurhamgoatfarm.com/im...oats-2-061.jpg http://www.mountain-beef.com/images/sales.jpg http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/vva/vvi.../chickens.jpeg http://www.kingbirdfarm.com/images/K...op%20house.jpg http://www.prairiespringsranch.com/images/13.jpg http://www.countryliving.com/cm/coun...DEN0805-de.jpg http://www.specialtytravel.com/opera...ogos/18059.jpg |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:39:09 -0700, Dutch wrote:
Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote: The fact is that humans are natural predators, and eating meat is a normal life experience for most people. The problem is that many food animals are raised and slaughtered without regard for their comfort and pain, which I suspect is the crux of the issue. I agree with everything you said, except that animal welfare is not part of the issue in the debate between [email protected] and everyone else. He tries to make it appear that it is, but that's just one of his smokescreens. That's a blatant lie since I refer to animals who have lives of negative value as well as those of positive value. The crux if his position is that users of animals and animal products should take pride in the fact that those animals "get to experience life" Try presenting some example of me telling people they should take pride in it. You can't meaning that you lied again, which is pretty much what you do. I DO encourage people to give the animals' lives as much or more consideration than their deaths though, which eliminationists hate because and only because doing so works against the elimination objective. and conversely vegans ("eliminationists") as he calls them) do not sponsor animals getting to experience life. · Vegans contribute to the deaths of animals by their use of wood and paper products, electricity, roads and all types of buildings, their own diet, etc... just as everyone else does. What they try to avoid are products which provide life (and death) for farm animals, but even then they would have to avoid the following items containing animal by-products in order to be successful: tires, paper, upholstery, floor waxes, glass, water filters, rubber, fertilizer, antifreeze, ceramics, insecticides, insulation, linoleum, plastic, textiles, blood factors, collagen, heparin, insulin, solvents, biodegradable detergents, herbicides, gelatin capsules, adhesive tape, laminated wood products, plywood, paneling, wallpaper and wallpaper paste, cellophane wrap and tape, abrasives, steel ball bearings The meat industry provides life for the animals that it slaughters, and the animals live and die as a result of it as animals do in other habitats. They also depend on it for their lives as animals do in other habitats. If people consume animal products from animals they think are raised in decent ways, they will be promoting life for more such animals in the future. People who want to contribute to decent lives for livestock with their lifestyle must do it by being conscientious consumers of animal products, because they can not do it by being vegan. From the life and death of a thousand pound grass raised steer and whatever he happens to kill during his life, people get over 500 pounds of human consumable meat...that's well over 500 servings of meat. From a grass raised dairy cow people get thousands of dairy servings. Due to the influence of farm machinery, and *icides, and in the case of rice the flooding and draining of fields, one serving of soy or rice based product is likely to involve more animal deaths than hundreds of servings derived from grass raised animals. Grass raised animal products contribute to fewer wildlife deaths, better wildlife habitat, and better lives for livestock than soy or rice products. · |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:11:21 -0700, Dutch wrote:
[email protected] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:32:27 -0700, Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: The fact that people who don't feel they have what could be considered a truly "good" life don't all kill themselves tells us that life still has positive value to them Those people already exist, So do animals in similar positions. Exactly my point. Those people who advocate the elimination of livestock breeding, and I am not one of them, and you know I'm not, are NOT advocating harming animals, or denying the "positive value" of animals' lives, because they propose that those animals never exist in the first place, and from the point of view of actual animals with interests, that suggestion is neutral. To you people that is extremely significant, but to those of us who are not misnomer addicts it's as meaningless as the fact that rocks aren't alive. The fact that millions of animals will experience life in the future because humans eat meat IS VERY significant, but the fact that veganism does nothing for livestock is no more significant than the fact that dinosaurs are extinct. It's the "best" that you people have, but meaningless to other people. life only has value to a being once they exist. You need to read Salt's essay again, not that you will understand it. I understand that commercially raised pigs are no longer filthily housed and fed, and also that Salt didn't have any idea whether life is of positive value to most modern commercially raised pigs or not. I'd also say it's safe to believe that he wouldn't feel any livestock animals' lives were worth living the same as you and the Goober and all other misnomer addicts, meaning that none of you could make a realistic distinction between which lives seem to be negative and which seem to be positive. That's not the part of the essay I mean. The point you're missing is that people like Salt, ARAs, vegans and PeTA, "eliminationists" are not doing anything morally assailable by suggesting that livestock be eliminated. No matter how "positive" the lives of existing livestock might be, suggesting that the species be eliminated does those animals no harm. That's only the most significant thing to eliminationists. Your ...[appreciation for lives of positive value for millions of animals] argument is circular, meaningless. ONLY to eliminationists. For people who honestly favor decent AW over elimination lives of positive value for millions of animals is a VERY significant aspect of the situation, in some part because it means AW regulations are working successfully. The fact that you can't appreciate that fact is one of the ways you reveal yourself. |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:52 -0700, Dutch wrote:
[email protected] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:30:08 -0700, Dutch lied: [email protected] wrote: I showed that you only want to consider bad things because and only because considering positive aspects for millions of livestock animals works against the elimination objective, Goo. Aside from battery hens, *you* only want to consider the good. You're just as nonobjective as ARAs, in fact you're worse. There's no way that's true, so you're lying blatantly again. Not only are you lying blatantly, but you also have no idea which other lives I might believe are most often of negative value, if any. So list them. For one thing there are some who have lives of negative value in every group including groups where the vast majority of the animals appear to have lives of positive value, like broiler chickens and grass raised cattle. Most of them appear to have decent lives, but some don't for whatever particular reasons. Then in other groups the negative aspect is probably greater than the positive, like with caged egg producers and probably sows in gestation and farrowing crates. However I'm also aware that though farrowing crates probably cause life to be of negative or at least reduced value for the sows, they make life of much greater value for the young pigs. You people can't appreciate such details, but some of us are able to. |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:00 -0700, Dutch wrote:
[email protected] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:43:26 -0700, "Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess" wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:32:27 -0700 Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: The fact that people who don't feel they have what could be considered a truly "good" life don't all kill themselves tells us that life still has positive value to them It doesn't have to be a "positive" value. People can be motivated by negative values too ("revenge" could be an example). It's still positive in respect that they want to continue living. Those people already exist, life only has value to a being once they exist. That's a logical point. It's a useless thing for anyone to ever make a point of except for the fact that I made a mistake in terminology about a decade ago It is not a mistake in terminology That's a blatant lie. , it is a fundamental error in logic which persists in your arguments to this day. and some people referred to as the goos still dishonestly insist that I believe unconceived potential future "beings" can somehow "suffer a loss" if "they" never experience life. It's a lie, though I do consider the possibility that there could be multiple lives somehow. I don't have a true belief, but do NOT believe unconceived potential beings experience any sort of loss for not being born as livestock. That doesn't mean I can't appreciate it when they are and experience decent lives of positive value TO THEM. Eliminationists can't afford to consider that aspect of human influence on animals, but anyone who favors decent AW over elimination certainly should both consider and appreciate it. Appreciation for that aspect is something eliminationists are opposed to, as you can see by the goos' behavior. There are three goos, which include Goo himself, his boy "Dutch" and his boy "Derek". In this thread we only have Goo and "Dutch", both of whom are maniacally opposed to taking decent lives of livestock into consideration. "Dutch" claims to have tried it once, and it made him feel "dirty". It made him feel dirty to have appreciation for lives of positive value for the animals he claims to consume. That's one of the ways he reveals that he does NOT favor AW over elimination. That's a lie, and you KNOW it, YOU claimed that it made you feel dirty, and if it really did then the fact that it made you feel dirty is what reveals that you favor AW over elimination. If you did not, then there would be no reason for it to make you feel dirty. Instead you would be glad for the animals when they have lives of positive value, not feel dirty for thinking about it. The only reason to feel dirty would be if you're opposed to them having those lives of positive value, which apparently you are. Duh! both of us favor continuing to raise livestock (over the elimination of livestock) AND we both favor the provision of good welfare over the neglect or abuse of animals (TWO separate and distinct choices) You certainly act like you favor elimination over AW by opposing appreciation for when livestock experience lives of positive value. ONLY eliminationists have reason to do that. You know that the elimination position is not respected by people who truly favor AW and you know eliminationists are not respected by us. THAT is why the Goober and you pretend (very very poorly) that you're elimination opponents. Trying to win the respect which you don't deserve, of people who truly do favor AW over elimination. It doesn't work with me because I see ways you reveal yourself, plus I've been on to your lame game since you first started trying to pretend to be an elimination opponent and first began claiming to eat meat. You honestly admitted you were an eliminationist to begin with, and then later began to pretend that you eat meat and have a completely different pov. |
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[email protected] wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:39:09 -0700, Dutch wrote: Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote: The fact is that humans are natural predators, and eating meat is a normal life experience for most people. The problem is that many food animals are raised and slaughtered without regard for their comfort and pain, which I suspect is the crux of the issue. I agree with everything you said, except that animal welfare is not part of the issue in the debate between [email protected] and everyone else. He tries to make it appear that it is, but that's just one of his smokescreens. That's a blatant lie Nope, it is the truth. |
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[email protected] wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:52 -0700, Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:30:08 -0700, Dutch lied: [email protected] wrote: I showed that you only want to consider bad things because and only because considering positive aspects for millions of livestock animals works against the elimination objective, Goo. Aside from battery hens, *you* only want to consider the good. You're just as nonobjective as ARAs, in fact you're worse. There's no way that's true, so you're lying blatantly again. Not only are you lying blatantly, but you also have no idea which other lives I might believe are most often of negative value, if any. So list them. blah blah now stfu |
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:35:51 -0700, Dutch wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:24:08 -0400, [email protected] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:52 -0700, Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:30:08 -0700, Dutch lied: [email protected] wrote: I showed that you only want to consider bad things because and only because considering positive aspects for millions of livestock animals works against the elimination objective, Goo. Aside from battery hens, *you* only want to consider the good. You're just as nonobjective as ARAs, in fact you're worse. There's no way that's true, so you're lying blatantly again. Not only are you lying blatantly, but you also have no idea which other lives I might believe are most often of negative value, if any. So list them. For one thing there are some who have lives of negative value in every group including groups where the vast majority of the animals appear to have lives of positive value, like broiler chickens and grass raised cattle. Most of them appear to have decent lives, but some don't for whatever particular reasons. Then in other groups the negative aspect is probably greater than the positive, like with caged egg producers and probably sows in gestation and farrowing crates. However I'm also aware that though farrowing crates probably cause life to be of negative or at least reduced value for the sows, they make life of much greater value for the young pigs. You people can't appreciate such details, but some of us are able to. blah blah Those are just more things you people hate to think about because they don't favor elimination. |
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:34:44 -0700, Dutch wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:22:43 -0400, [email protected] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:39:09 -0700, Dutch wrote: Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote: The fact is that humans are natural predators, and eating meat is a normal life experience for most people. The problem is that many food animals are raised and slaughtered without regard for their comfort and pain, which I suspect is the crux of the issue. I agree with everything you said, except that animal welfare is not part of the issue in the debate between [email protected] and everyone else. He tries to make it appear that it is, but that's just one of his smokescreens. That's a blatant lie since I refer to animals who have lives of negative value as well as those of positive value. Nope, it is the truth. Obviously I refer to animals who have lives of negative value as well as those of positive value. Why do you want to lie about that fact, can't you say? The crux if his position is that users of animals and animal products should take pride in the fact that those animals "get to experience life" Try presenting some example of me telling people they should take pride in it. You can't meaning that you lied again, which is pretty much what you do. I DO encourage people to give the animals' lives as much or more consideration than their deaths though, which eliminationists hate because and only because doing so works against the elimination objective. and conversely vegans ("eliminationists") as he calls them) do not sponsor animals getting to experience life. · Vegans contribute to the deaths of animals by their use of wood and paper products, electricity, roads and all types of buildings, their own diet, etc... just as everyone else does. What they try to avoid are products which provide life (and death) for farm animals, but even then they would have to avoid the following items containing animal by-products in order to be successful: tires, paper, upholstery, floor waxes, glass, water filters, rubber, fertilizer, antifreeze, ceramics, insecticides, insulation, linoleum, plastic, textiles, blood factors, collagen, heparin, insulin, solvents, biodegradable detergents, herbicides, gelatin capsules, adhesive tape, laminated wood products, plywood, paneling, wallpaper and wallpaper paste, cellophane wrap and tape, abrasives, steel ball bearings The meat industry provides life for the animals that it slaughters, and the animals live and die as a result of it as animals do in other habitats. They also depend on it for their lives as animals do in other habitats. If people consume animal products from animals they think are raised in decent ways, they will be promoting life for more such animals in the future. People who want to contribute to decent lives for livestock with their lifestyle must do it by being conscientious consumers of animal products, because they can not do it by being vegan. From the life and death of a thousand pound grass raised steer and whatever he happens to kill during his life, people get over 500 pounds of human consumable meat...that's well over 500 servings of meat. From a grass raised dairy cow people get thousands of dairy servings. Due to the influence of farm machinery, and *icides, and in the case of rice the flooding and draining of fields, one serving of soy or rice based product is likely to involve more animal deaths than hundreds of servings derived from grass raised animals. Grass raised animal products contribute to fewer wildlife deaths, better wildlife habitat, and better lives for livestock than soy or rice products. · |
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[email protected] wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:35:51 -0700, Dutch wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:24:08 -0400, [email protected] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:52 -0700, Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:30:08 -0700, Dutch lied: [email protected] wrote: I showed that you only want to consider bad things because and only because considering positive aspects for millions of livestock animals works against the elimination objective, Goo. Aside from battery hens, *you* only want to consider the good. You're just as nonobjective as ARAs, in fact you're worse. There's no way that's true, so you're lying blatantly again. Not only are you lying blatantly, but you also have no idea which other lives I might believe are most often of negative value, if any. So list them. For one thing there are some who have lives of negative value in every group including groups where the vast majority of the animals appear to have lives of positive value, like broiler chickens and grass raised cattle. Most of them appear to have decent lives, but some don't for whatever particular reasons. Then in other groups the negative aspect is probably greater than the positive, like with caged egg producers and probably sows in gestation and farrowing crates. However I'm also aware that though farrowing crates probably cause life to be of negative or at least reduced value for the sows, they make life of much greater value for the young pigs. You people can't appreciate such details, but some of us are able to. blah blah Those are just more things you people hate to think about because they don't favor elimination. Stop lying, you don't believe I favor elimination, nobody does. You're just use that as a convenient strawman to cover your inability to deal with the legitimate criticism of your silly arguments. |
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[email protected] wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:34:44 -0700, Dutch wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:22:43 -0400, [email protected] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:39:09 -0700, Dutch wrote: Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote: The fact is that humans are natural predators, and eating meat is a normal life experience for most people. The problem is that many food animals are raised and slaughtered without regard for their comfort and pain, which I suspect is the crux of the issue. I agree with everything you said, except that animal welfare is not part of the issue in the debate between [email protected] and everyone else. He tries to make it appear that it is, but that's just one of his smokescreens. That's a blatant lie since I refer to animals who have lives of negative value as well as those of positive value. Nope, it is the truth. Obviously I refer to animals who have lives of negative value as well as those of positive value. Animal welfare is not what your position is about, that is a smokescreen. |
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:05:40 -0700, Dutch wrote:
[email protected] wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:35:51 -0700, Dutch wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:24:08 -0400, [email protected] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:52 -0700, Dutch wrote: [email protected] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:30:08 -0700, Dutch lied: [email protected] wrote: I showed that you only want to consider bad things because and only because considering positive aspects for millions of livestock animals works against the elimination objective, Goo. Aside from battery hens, *you* only want to consider the good. You're just as nonobjective as ARAs, in fact you're worse. There's no way that's true, so you're lying blatantly again. Not only are you lying blatantly, but you also have no idea which other lives I might believe are most often of negative value, if any. So list them. For one thing there are some who have lives of negative value in every group including groups where the vast majority of the animals appear to have lives of positive value, like broiler chickens and grass raised cattle. Most of them appear to have decent lives, but some don't for whatever particular reasons. Then in other groups the negative aspect is probably greater than the positive, like with caged egg producers and probably sows in gestation and farrowing crates. However I'm also aware that though farrowing crates probably cause life to be of negative or at least reduced value for the sows, they make life of much greater value for the young pigs. You people can't appreciate such details, but some of us are able to. blah blah Those are just more things you people hate to think about because they don't favor elimination. Stop lying, you don't believe I favor elimination, You were honest about the fact that you do when you began posting he "I am an animal rights believer." - "Dutch" "we must have at least the same right as every animal does, which is to seek to compete successfully, sustain ourselves and thrive." - "Dutch" Later you began to pretend that you changed your pov completely to an AW position, but I disbelieve you since you argue against appreciation for when decent AW results in lives of positive value for millions of animals. nobody does. You're just use that as a convenient strawman to cover your inability to deal with the legitimate criticism of your silly arguments. So far there hasn't been one yet. When I first began posting a dozen years ago I was afraid there might eventually be, but by this time I've gotten pretty comfortable with the idea that there won't. However, if you think you have one I challenge you to present it now. Go: |
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:09:06 -0700, Dutch wrote:
[email protected] wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:34:44 -0700, Dutch wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:22:43 -0400, [email protected] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:39:09 -0700, Dutch wrote: Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote: The fact is that humans are natural predators, and eating meat is a normal life experience for most people. The problem is that many food animals are raised and slaughtered without regard for their comfort and pain, which I suspect is the crux of the issue. I agree with everything you said, except that animal welfare is not part of the issue in the debate between [email protected] and everyone else. He tries to make it appear that it is, but that's just one of his smokescreens. That's a blatant lie since I refer to animals who have lives of negative value as well as those of positive value. Nope, it is the truth. Obviously I refer to animals who have lives of negative value as well as those of positive value. Animal welfare is not what your position is about, that is a smokescreen. I encourage people to appreciate when decent AW AND OTHER THINGS result in lives of positive value for millions of livestock animals, and you discourage people from appreciating it. |
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****wit David Harrison, convicted felon living in Buford, GA, lied:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:32:27 -0700, Dutch wrote: ****wit David Harrison, convicted felon living in Buford, GA, lied: The fact that people who don't feel they have what could be considered a truly "good" life don't all kill themselves tells us that life still has positive value to them Those people already exist, So do animals in similar positions. No. You're talking - you have *always* been blabbering - about "future farm animals." Stop lying. life only has value to a being once they exist. You need to read Salt's essay again, not that you will understand it. I understand that You *should* understand, but fail to understand, that "getting to experience life" is not a benefit. |
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