XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian   
      
   On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:12:05 +0000 (UTC), Jahbulon    
   wrote:   
      
   >dh@. wrote in news:gu9if793g2qbsm5vs22j0o8ins2alr10v8@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> The meat industry provides life for the animals that   
   >> it slaughters, and the animals live and die as a   
   >> result of it as animals do in other habitats.   
   >   
   >I'm sure that's true, but would you say it's okay to be cruel to a human   
   >being, provided that human would not have been created were it not for the   
   >cruelty, which it is genuinely believed will relieve more suffering than it   
   >creates? If living creatures are not created, they don't suffer, do they?   
   >   
   >> From the life and death of a thousand pound grass   
   >> raised steer and whatever he happens to kill during   
   >> his life, people get over 500 pounds of human   
   >> consumable meat...that's well over 500 servings of   
   >> meat.   
   >   
   >You would not say the same about child sex abuser thinking of creating a   
   >baby for his own purposes, would you?   
      
       Since livestock aren't generally sexually abused by their farmers there's   
   no   
   reason to try comparing those completely different situations as if they   
   weren't   
   completely different.   
      
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