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Hello, this is madz here. I am replying to Scroggle2's article titled "Can
You
Escape the Meat?"
She argued that agriculture is as bad as raising animals for food consumption
because animals get indirectly killed in order to plant or replant crops.
In other words, Scroggle2 argued that it is equally as bad to be a
vegetarian as a meat-eater because you are still killing animals one way or
another.
But I think that indirect killing (e.g. the mowing of an alfalfa field
to provide food for vegetarians, in this case) is an entirely different matter
than the deliberate raising of animals for slaughter. Eating animals is an act
of
choice -- we can choose not to do this. Animals being accidentally killed when crops
are planted/replanted is an accident and in many cases can be probably
avoided if we study the problem long enough. But there is no avoiding the slaughter when you
are actually raising animals for meat in the first place.
P.S. And I don't think anyone said that it is right to kill a mouse and not a
cow. But I think you will find that most vegetarians don't believe in the
killing of any animals unless absolutely necessary -- for example, an introduced pest that is
killing and causing the extinction of native animals.
I hope I got my point across. Don't get me wrong, Scroggle2, I think your
article was great, as it pointed out another side of the story, but I still think
that being a vegetarian is a great idea. Thank you.
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