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- From: fraser@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fraser Wilson)
- Subject: Re: Vegetarian Ethics?????????????????
- Message-ID: <9300319.8235@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:33:18 GMT
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- wlmss@peg.pegasus.oz.au writes:
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- >comment: There is no disputing a moderate balanced diet is better by far
- > than a diet with excess fat and not enough fibre and nutrients.
- > Moderation, not extremism is the answer.
-
- Vegetarianism is extremism? I'm afraid that that is, how best to put it,
- utter bullshit.
-
- >AND this Whopper:
- >
- >) Nothing died to give me my dinner
- >
- >comment: Wrong!
-
- Blah blah blah. Sure, its wrong, but, on the whole, plants produce
- food about 20 times more efficiently than the second-hand food that
- you carnivores eat.
-
- > When all the factors are
- > considered meat eating may well involve less death and
- > destruction than that required for the extra food vegetarians
- > must eat to stay healthy and rational and insightful.
-
- It's strange, you know, when I go out to dinner and things like that,
- I never noticed that I was eating a whole lot more than everyone else.
- Whence comes this extra food that I'm apparently consuming?
-
- Fraser.
-