animal rights

[Glynis Carr]

Dear Amanda,
        I love plants--all plants from trees to mosses--and I'm curious
what reply you would make to my questions:   Given that human beings must
eat to live, is it any less wrong/destructive/immoral/etc. to eat plants
than to eat animals?  Are animals inherently more deserving than plants of
our sympathy/protection/concern?  If so, why?  (Because they are more
similar to us?)   I, too, like you, am struggling to understand the
politics of diet, the politics of food.  


Glynis Carr