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Subject: Re: Re: Is a dead bird the best way to show your appreciation????
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Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 10:19:10 EST
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Tim Smith writes:
> > [ killing animals for food vs. killing animals for furs ]
> the morality of eating meat.  And how about the morality of killing
> plants? [ note: no :-) ]
	This has always been a sore point with me. If I feel immoral by
	eating once-living, now-dead things, what makes plants any less
	"living" than animals? With the exception of eggs and milk, is
	there any current foodstuff which wasn't killed/harvested?

> I see no inconsistency in eating meat but objecting to having animals
> killed for their fur.  ...
	I agree. You are perfectly correct that modern technology can supply
	this need better than animals, and without causing pain and death.
  
> Wouldn't net.misc be a better group for this?  I would assume that
> most people who read net.veg are vegetarians, and so a more general
> group, like net.misc, would be more likely to get no-vegetarians
> involved.
	Here is at least one non-vegetarian who reads net.veg, because as
	a former veggie, I am still interested in these issues. I also
	have vegetarian friends whom I prepare meals for occasionally.
-- 
Harry S. Delugach   University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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