From: arctic.fox@ukgateway.net
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 12:47:25 MDT
At 14:38 06/06/01, you wrote:
>>From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>
>
>> > We
>> >
>> > > have invented technologies that let us sustain ourselves at
>> > > full
>> > > health without lowering ourselves to eating other creatures.
That quote is from Chris L., not Samantha.
By your posting I take it that trolls are not vegetarian? :)
Animal welfare is a branch of ethics, i.e. there is no given right or wrong
answer. The extropian list isn't really the place to debate it IMHO.
Paul
>Is eating other creatures really that bad of a thing? I know that there
>could be much more humane ways of doing it than raising a calf to be
>trapped in a cage for its whole life before being killed by a blow to the
>head. But that aside, most creatures that we eat were made to be
>eaten. Its called the food chain. If we don't eat them other predators will.
>
>-Zero
>
>Life is good. Refuse to die.
>
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