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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Newsgroups: can.general,talk.politics.animals
- Subject: Re: Food chain (was Re: Killing animals (was Re: hunting dog wanted))
- Message-ID: <viking.728209635@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 08:27:15 GMT
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- g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
-
- >In the states, for each acre of forest cleared for parking lots, roads,
- >houses, shopping centres, etc., *seven* are cleared for meat production
- >(land for grazing or growing feed). I don't have the stats for Canada,
- >but I see little reason to suspect it's much different. If everyone
- >became vegetarian, a great deal of this land could be returned to its
- >natural state.
-
- Pay me two million and I'll keep mine in its natural state,
- unless acid rain from the power plant kills the trees. No takers?
- Just what do you intend to do with this land, and what compensation is
- offered? The world runs on profit, not good looks.
-
- >The industries which transform animal skins into wearable goods are also
- >polluting and habitat destroying.
-
- Though less so than the industries that turned out the computer
- you typed this on. In addition, hides used to be tanned using the brains
- of the animal killed, and many places use similar organic substances to
- this very day. Claiming a factory is habitat-destroying is no different
- than admitting the home you occupy is habitat-destroying. The only
- question is, still, where you draw the line.
-
- >Alvin, as I mentioned in another article I *do* realize that it is often
- >impossible to avoid harming others. But isn't this all the more reason
- >to minimize the harm we do whenever we can?
-
- You might want to concentrate on the larger sources first, though.
-
- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < USENET: Post to exotic, distant machines. Meet exciting, >
- < unusual people. And flame them. >
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