Fudge-packer Ron wrote:
>>>>>>>I have no way of knowing what farmers do what.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Stop feigning ignorance and innocence. You know they intentionally
>>>>>>poison them and less intentionally run over and flood them.
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't know which do this, if they really do.
>>>>
>>>>Bullshit. You know that most farmers don't employ the tactics of the
>>>>Lundbergs to clear the fields of migratory birds (but not rodents,
>>>>amphibians, etc.). You know that the use of pesticides kills a variety
>>>>of non-targeted species. You know that storage facilities like granaries
>>>>and warehouses pro-actively employ pest control measures in accordance
>>>>with health agency requirements.
>>>
>>>Well then, any educated fool
>>
>>Glad you're here to speak for the educated fool community.
>>
>>
>>>can see the difficulty is not in veganism
>>
>>It *is*, but an educated fool is still a fool.
>>
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>>>but in the whores who are the growers and farmers.
>>
>>Whores who cut certain corners to fulfill even *more whorish* consumer
>>demand for the least expensive products possible. Most consumers care
>>nothing about dead mice or rats or frogs, they just want their food.
>>Vegans, who brazenly lie about the impact their diet has on animals,
>>have failed to address the issue of alternative production which might
>>actually help their consumption match their rhetoric. They're hypocrites
>>of the grandest magnitude.
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> You still suffer the delusion that other must follow your standards.

I insist others who pontificate about such things make some effort to
meet or exceed their own standards.

> The vegan is free to make a logical argument to support animal rights and to
> operate as a human within a human world.

I haven't questioned their freedom (or right) to engage in hypocrisy.
I've only called them on it.