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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Subject: Re: Vegitarianism
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.211422.24498@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:14:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.104458.3247@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
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- >Thus, it can be moral for the lion to eat the gazelle because he is
- >ecologically important as a predator and an obligatory carnivore,
- >whereas humans are neither (our raising of animals for food is not
- >beneficial to the environment).
-
- Why is that? Why are our activities somehow hostile to "the environment",
- while the activities of the lion are not? Why is "the environment" somehow
- worse off if I start a sheep ranch? If I plant wheat instead of grass? You
- seem to have a very precise idea of what "the environment" ought to be
- like, and anything _we_ do seems--almost by definition--to be evil in your
- view.
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