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- From: kerry@citr.uq.oz.au (Kerry Raymond)
- Subject: Re: Vegetarian Ethics?????????????????
- Message-ID: <C0BELF.Cq5@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>
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- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:44:02 GMT
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- wadley@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fruit Loop) writes:
-
- >The answer to the above problems, which you can safely try at home,
- >is to become a frugivore.
-
- >Like other closely-related primates, humans are natural-born fruit-eaters.
-
- >And, to about as close an approximation as you'll ever get,
- >nothing dies for your dinner. Fruit trees are in a symbiotic relationship
- >with frugivores. They 'want' you to eat their fruit, and 'try' to make it
- >as tasty and nutritions as possible, so that you will.
-
- Ah, but it's vital to eat only of the apples (bananas, pawpaws, mangoes etc)
- that have fallen to the ground which signifies that the fruit tree has
- chosen to share its bounty with you. Picking the fruit, or shaking the
- tree to make the fruit fall, is denying the tree's right to make that
- choice. Fallen nuts can also be eaten. However, it's important not to
- take too many fallen fruits and nuts or else the possums, flying foxes,
- etc will miss out on their meal.
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