XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.california
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:30:55 -0700, Dutch wrote:
>John Mayson wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, K wrote:
>>
>>> John Mayson wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, K wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It isn't an issue at all killing carrots. The problem for people
>>>>> who claim to be vegetarian for ethical reasons is that animals are
>>>>> killed in the course of producing vegetable crops. There is no such
>>>>> thing as produce that is free of animal deaths.
>>>>
>>>> I have never killed anything with my garden, therefor there is such a
>>>> thing as produce that is free from animal deaths.
>>>
>>> You don't eat only food from your garden. You eat some commercially
>>> grown and distributed food, too. The production of that food causes
>>> animals to die.
>>
>> No.... the OP claimed "animals are killed in the course of producing
>> vegetable crops". I'm pointing out no animals have ever been killed by
>> my garden.
>>
>> John
>
>While it is possible to raise crops by hand without killing
>animals, it is not possible to feed the human race with
>individually hand-tended gardens. Also, even most small
>gardens must be defended from pests like slugs.
>
And rabbets and in some areas deer.
>I understand the squeamishness people feel about killing
>animals, but at a certain point it becomes a pathology.
People who kill animals for food do not enjoy the act. If it's not
done they don't eat! And if a person get hungry enough he or she will
kill an animal to eat. I've seen my mother's youngest sister cry
because she didn't want to kill a chicken. Her mother told her if she
didn't there would not be anything for dinner. My grandmother was not
being mean.
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