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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Only in an affluent society could such ideals be considered.  Biology will 
always trump philosophy.  A structural element of biology demands that we 
will eat the rats of the field and even the field dust upon which they leave 
their waste if that is what is necesaary to complete the 
imperative......bobbyford

--- On Sat, 8/2/08, Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>

> 
> And lastly, people should realize that while eating meat
> involves killing, so does eating plants.  We must kill to
> eat. We must destroy habitats to make rice paddies, wheat
> and corn fields, etc just as we destroy habitats to make
> pastures for meat animals.  When mankind stopped hunting
> and gathering and moving with the seasons/food, when he
> settled in one place and began growing his food, he began
> the long cycle of habitat destruction that we see today. 
> That's killing, too.  I'm not trying to start an
> argument, just trying to bring balance to the equation.
> 
> Akka B
> 
> --- On Sat, 8/2/08, Robert Walton
> <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Eating meat involves killing, somehow it seems better for
> me when I
> take responsibility for the whole process myself.
> 
> Rob - Va
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