On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:14:48AM -0500, frank theriault scripsit: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > > You realize, don't you, if we all went vegan to "save the animals", there > > would not be enough flora food on the earth to feed us, and we'd go back to > > killing animals for food, if they hadn't already all been killed to turn > > their grazing land into farmland. > > It may sound like I'm splitting hairs here, but I'm not vegan to "save > the animals", I'm vegan because I don't want to cause harm to or > exploit animals. > > There's a difference.
Not really, no. Farming isn't as ecologically destructive as strip mining, tailings ponds, or paving, but whether you're eating beef or soybeans, whatever used to live where the farm that grew them now is doesn't live there any more. This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine; farming *of any kind* takes over a big chunk of ecosystem and gets rid of a lot of animals. You can argue that it's less direct when you're eating soybeans instead, but you can't get out of the trophic web no matter what you do, what with being made out of meat and all. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
