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From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: Question (and an Answer)
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Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 18:54:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  6 18:54:24 1984
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It seems there is some misunderstanding about vegetarianism and killing.  ALL
eating by humans involves killing -- who is to say that a carrot does not
scream when it is pulled out of the ground just because we can't hear it?
But, most of us draw the line somewhere -- some people won't eat dead humans,
others won't eat dead dogs or cats and yet others of us say we make a decision
that we do not have to kill an animal to eat.  But, if killing were
unavoidable for my survival, I would kill, in spite of being a vegetarian.  If
I were a diabetic, I would use insulin from an animal in the absence of
synthetic insulin.

K.S. Bhaskar
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