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> >So karmically, if  
> you're killing things anyway, you get more bang for your buck (so to  
> speak) eating meat.
> 

What the militant vegan also conveniently leaves out is that in order to grow 
a vegetarian diet it is necessary to kill or thwart all manner of animal 
life.  Habitats are disrupted, animals have to be scared away, stunk away, or 
shot 
away.  Under our present system he vegetarian diet has to be transported and 
marketed and undergoes other activities that kill animals.

We on this homestead eat much less meat than the American average.  When they 
came out with that recommendation to eat no more than 17 oz of red meat a 
week, we weret taken aback.  Who eats that much red meat?  We may average six 
ounces a week during the meat eating season, and all that we ourselves 
killed.  
But radical, lunatic fringe vegetarianism is a luxury that only the rich can 
afford.  The rest of us have to eat what we can wrest from our environment no 
matter the form it takes.   </HTML>