"Ron" > wrote

> usual suspect > wrote:
>
>> This ignores the fact that animals die in the course of "vegan" food
>> production, too. Those deaths -- through poisoning, mutilation,
>> drowning, predation, etc. -- are significantly more "cruel" than the
>> humane slaughter which they object.
>
> Killed, of course, by meat eaters.

Ipse dixit, in any case it's irrelevant, the vegan hires this person to do
his dirty work for him and thus is equally culpable. If you go to the street
and ask a common thief to steal you a stereo, you are complicit in that
crime when it is committed.

> When the vegan buys the ingredients
> for the day's meal, the killing is usually done by the meat eater who
> rather than finding 'ethical' means of growing or harvesting such
> products, continues to kill.

Farmers kill animals, regardless of their personal diets.