Subject: Re: [lpny_manhattan] Re: Is it moral to eat animals ?
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:26:59 -0400
To:        <lpny_manhattan@yahoogroups.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:09:52 EDT, berniepie@aol.com wrote:
>=A0>=A0<<=A0=A0If animals are people whose rights should be respected,=
 and some of
>=A0>=A0them are carnivores, why aren't people as well? >>
>=A0>
>=A0People should set a higher standard. =A0 =A0For other lifeforms on=
 earth life is
>=A0a desperate struggle for survival, overwhelmed by fear.

 I reject the idea that being a herbivore is "higher" than being
 an omnivore . I see our relations with the animals we nurture=
 and
 consume being symbiotic . Vegans prefer these lives never to
 occur . 

 There is a great scene in Douglas Adam's
    The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345391810/httcoscom-20
 ( that's the Temporal end ) where a cow walks over and=
 discusses
 which portions of itself are most select and which the diners
 might prefer before it goes off into the kitchen to be=
 "prepared" .
 
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