Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[bennyboy]

Intrinsic to my position? Just for clarity, just what do you think my position is bennyboy?

Your position is that meat production and consumption is okay or necessary. Intrinsic to this position are attitudes about the justification of suffering in others. All meat-eaters must necessarily accept that in order to sustain themselves, they must cause suffering and death in others. I assume, since you are a willing participant in the meat production/consumption cycle, that you accept whatever evils that process involves-- environmentally and health-wise as well as in terms of suffering-- even if you have not specifically stated so. Since in Australia, meat-production is also a big business, I'd also hazard a guess that you are willing to accept environmental corruption and animal suffering as part of the exchange of goods-- money for housing, electronic goods, etc. At this point, the word "necessity" starts to lose the ring of truth.

Now, for what you have implied you are in North America/ Canada? Is this correct? And your country grows wheat? What else does it grow?

As far as I understand, here in Oz we have something like two growing seasons and yes wheat is a yearly crop here, along with many other grain crops (large scale). We are also only 22-23 million in population so most of our produce gets exported.

I live in Korea, but I am Canadian. Canada is similarly situated to Australia, I believe: large countries with low populations and good farmlands, but quite a lot of non-arable land: tundra in Canada, and dry regions in Australia.