"ant and dec" > wrote
> Martin Willett wrote:

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>> I don't have a problem with hypocrisy, I make a rule not to eat anything
>> smarter than a pig,
>
> How convenient for you, and inconvenient for the pig. Why have you drawn
> this seemingly arbitrary line at pigs?

It's not arbitrary, he gave the criterion, intelligence.

> unless I really have to. Fortunately that rule
>> doesn't restrict my diet very much. I have a lot of respect for the
>> intelligence of pigs.
>
> But not much respect for the pig?

That doesn't follow.

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>> Oh come on. Veg*ns ooze their sense of moral superiority like Christians
>> and Buddhists, they use it as part of their locomotion, like slugs.
>
> I think this is a problem of your perception.

Oh, puleeeze!