Rat & Swan > wrote in message >...
> Purple wrote:
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> > Rat & Swan > wrote in message >...
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> >> Thou shalt not eat vegetables which have been sprayed with
> >>>>pesticides doesn't.
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> >>Not in and of itself. I prefer organic, non-agribusiness veggies
> >>for other reasons of health and social justice for humans, but,
> >>again, that is another issue from AR.
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> > Why is spraying a crop field with pesticides, knowing that it will
> > lead to animal deaths, not in and of itself an immoral act?
>
> Because spraying with pesticides may not result in animal deaths --
> the application of pesticides is not inherently wrong, because it
> does not _in itself_ cause any harm to a being with rights. When
> you add "crop field" to the question, you add another aspect: the
> side effect of the action. If I were to grow a vegetable or other
> plant in a greenhouse or in my home, and spray it with pesticide to
> kill a fungus or an insect infestation (I don't believe insects
> have rights), that would not, IMO, be wrong

If you saw tox tests performed on agri chemicals, you would realize
exactly how "wrong" it is. I worked developing agrichemicals, and
alternatives for them, for 15 years. The ultimate tox tests were done
on beagles and rhesus monkeys. There is absolutely *nothing* "right"
about pesticides.

-L.