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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:05:24 GMT, wrote:

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> The meat industry provides life for the animals that it
>slaughters, and the animals live and die in it as they do
>in any other habitat. They also depend on it for their
>lives like the animals in any other habitat. If people
>consume animal products from animals they think are
>raised in decent ways, they will be promoting life for
>more such animals in the future.

Most meatarians justify their diet using the same logic
you use, and they use it because they know they are
doing something wrong by eating rights-holding animals.
You don't get to see vegans arguing we should all eat
veg on the basis that such a diet provides life for more
cabbages, do you, and that's because we all know that
the death of a cabbage is morally meaningless. You're
an AR, Harrison, else you would not be trying to morally
justify your diet on animals in this way.