>To Jennifer, et al > >I consideer the animals that live on the EarthHome as envirormentalists >since they did very little to distuurb the natural order of things. agree. Very >few predators other than EarthHumans have sent species to extinction. Sorry, your logic has lost me here. You do not know this. I think you make an assumption that 'natural' is good. Problems with this assumption are for example: "It is natural for men to rape women" an often used excuse for such behaviour not just by the perpetrator but by judges. The point is not whether it is natural but whether it is desirable. And by whom. the philosophical argument could go on and on about morals but i think it would have no end. In a >balanced ecosystem, life forms on the EarthHome live in balance by eating >each other, whether as decomposers such as earthworms, flies and such or >predators who eat grazers of grazers who eat plants. Agree with this but it still does not rule out extinction due to 'natural' causes. Such as the dodo bird or dinasaurs. remember we don't know what killed them for sure. Surely though, what is desirable is that we actively attempt to prevent further extictions by changing many of our practices - indeed i think the whole kit and kaboodle! Eating plants does not >make you any better than those who eat animals. Plants are a higher form of >life who daily experience the energy of the sun and live in an excited or >exalted state. It is my theory that plants domesticated man in order to >disperse seeds worldwide. Thus my thesis, eat the lower energy animals and >leave the higher energy plants alone. I like your argument here. > >A planet where no organisms ate dead carcasses or brought down the weak >would soon crash like the deer crashed after the natural predators such as >mountain lions, were removed. Without meat or carcass eaters, we would soon >be miles deep in garbage and excrement. So true. But in the city - arent we deep in it? At least, whats that black stuff which hangs above my head and hides the sun? >Eating meat does not make you bad. Eating plants does not make you good. The >key is, how much of the available carrying capacity of the EarthHome are you >absorbing? Absolutely agree. > >It just means you are an animal like the rest of LifeKind, eating, >defecating, and being eventually recycled. > >Sharing and caring, > >Dr. Carol >Carol Cross, Ph.D. EcoAgroForestry Founder >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone & FAX: 501-367-8736. >2801 Olive, #35A, Suite 113, PO Box 5208, Pine Bluff, AR 71611. >For Free Western Hemisphere Export Trade Newsletter send email saying >SUBSCRIBE WESHEMOL. Together we Can Create A Sustainable World Through >EcoAgroForestry (Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Forestry and Rural >AgroIndustrial Development) by growing Kenaf, utilizing AgroResidues, >forming consortiums, & developing Rural AgroIndustrial Centers (RAICs) or >EcoAgroForestry Village Business Incubators(VBI). Free Kenaf Newsletter - >Just Say SUBSCRIBE KENAFOL. Join us. > >"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
