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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

I guess so. I'm not saying don't eat plants and I eat meat. I'm just
saying that we think that we know everything and sometimes taking a
stance of not eating meat in order to save animals may not have the
desired result. Like Akka wrote, habitat may be lost (this animals
suffer), also maybe plants suffer as much as animals. At least I don't
chew my chickens alive like a vegetarian does to a carrot.

I'd eat the rats of the field, like Peruvians and their cuy, but "the
dust upon which they leave their waste"? Is that an original or a
quote?

Rob - Va

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:07 PM, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> --- On Sat, 8/2/08, Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>
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>>
>> 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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