rick etter wrote:

> And if that doesn't help, remember the animals that are shredded, sliced,
> diced, dis-membered in farm machinery. remember the animals that die from
> their guts turning to mush from the poisons used to deliberately kill them
> just to keeo you veggies clean and cheap. Remember the animals that die
> from having their skin burned, or from violent spasms after being sprayed
> with pesticides. Remember the animals that are eaten alive from predators
> or that starve to death after you've harvested all the easy food and cover
> off the fields. That's after you crops have allowed their numbers to swell
> far beyond the normal carry capacity of the area because of the easy food
> and cover your crops provide.
>
> So, if you really look, you can find real free-range meats and eggs. It's
> a large and growing market. It's getting bigger because real people *do*
> care. It's the vegans that are not doing anything to change the way animals
> are raised for food. All they have is their hate, and of course their
> simple rule for their simple minds, 'eat no meat.' Doens't save animals in
> the long run, just replaces the ones that were on their plate with the ones
> they leave to suffer, die and rot in the fileds. Quite compassionate of
> them, right?

So are you trying to suggest that we give up eating vegetables all
together and try to live on a meat only diet? Good luck surviving on
that diet buddy. And besides....what about the farmers that shoot foxes
that come looking for chickens. Or the poisons that kill predators
looking for farm animals? Or the animals that are eaten alive from
predators or that starve to death after you've removed all easy pickings
farm animals from the fields. Why do you think people only eat organic?