Re: Re: India and Factory Farming/meat-eating&famine

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In a message dated 1/18/04 10:41:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, bwp@...

writes:

> even though we suspect it needn't be, it probably has been. let's

> not let our pro-meat ideals cloud the ugly reality. the arguments

> against meat are pretty strong when limited to actual historical

> practices, especially recent methods of meat production, but of

> course they are incredibly weak when other possibilities are

> considered, like the general WAPF ideal. i find it quite plausible

> that irresponsible meat-eating has contributed to food imbalances,

> but i really don't know the facts on this topic.

Well, she supports the idea that meat uses up more land than grain, so we

should eat grain. I think it's a pretty bad argument, and I think WAPF has a

good response-- particularly that a lot of land is just better suited to pasture

than grain-growing. Not to mention grain isn't particularly nutritious

compared to meat.

I'm not claiming she doesn't have a lot of value, but she's part of the

ideological leftist-vegetarian nexus.

Chris