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From: avr@purdue.UUCP (Andrew V. Royappa)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Vegetarians
Message-ID: <411@mordred.purdue.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 04:40:17 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  4 04:40:17 1986
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Summary: Yes, I still want to eat meat.

>     
>     	2. Ethical considerations

	Rubbish. Just because some great people are *queasy* about
eating meat doesn't mean that it's wrong. What about the vast number
of carnivorous animals out there ? Are they all amoral, too, or do
these ethical considerations apply to humans only ? Face it, it's
a fact that animals kill for food. Why should humans have to feel
guilty about it ? I also have no doubt that cattle are slaughtered far
more humanely than the way I see carnivores killing their prey on
those TV nature shows.

	A better thing to get mad about is humans killing animals for 
pleasure or "sport" or furs or skins or perfumes or tusks ... 

	Mmmm ... think I'll go have a hamburger .. :-)

					Andrew V. Royappa
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