On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:09:24 +0100, Derek > wrote:
>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,
They know that what I point out is true. So do you.
>and they use it because they intuitively know
>they are doing something terribly wrong when eating
>rights-holding farmed animals.
That could only be true if there were rights-holding
farmed animals, but there are none.
>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,
No. You argue we should all eat veg to prevent the
lives and deaths of billions of animals.
>do you, and that's because we all know that
>the life and death of a cabbage is morally meaningless.
>You're an AR, Harrison, else you would not be trying
>to morally justify the life and death of your food.
No Gonad. I believe that it's ethically equivalent or
superior to contribute to decent lives for farm animals,
as it is to contribute to none at all. We know you "ARAs"
don't feel that way, so it's incredibly stupid of you to say
I'm in favor of "AR". I'm very much in favor of decent
Animal Welfare, which is something you "ARAs" want
to prevent. You certainly will NOT contribute to decent
AW for food animals with you diet, and you make it very
obvious that you don't want anyone else to either.