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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

It is my original poorly designed wording.  I use quotation marks when I
quote the better words of others.  I was agreeing with both you and Akka.
 My point was simply that if we were hungry, our perspective would be much 
different, ..sate as fate ?.....billybobford


--- On Sat, 8/2/08, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Meat
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008, 1:42 PM
> 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:
> >
> > 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
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> >

> >