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Save a cow, share vegetarian recipes please!
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RE: Save a cow, share vegetarian recipes please!
(July 6, 2015 at 11:31 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:
(July 6, 2015 at 7:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm not a vegetarian. I'm just a person who feels really bad for the animals. I'd like to be a vegetarian, but I need to find meals I can enjoy. Smile

If you really feel bad for the animals, here's some food for thought:
Agriculture to produce wheat, rice and pulses requires clear-felling native vegetation. That act alone results in the deaths of thousands of Australian animals and plants per hectare.

There's far more to it than "nobody had to kill a cow for me to have this salad." I'm certainly not going to say that the article is justification for an omnivorous diet (which is what you're evolved for) but it is, as I said earlier, food for thought.


There have been several articles people have written to debunk the claims in that article.  Just do a search for that guy's name with the words "vegetarian cattle" (not in quotes) to find several such articles.

Of course, all food production does involve killing things and it does all involve bad things for the environment.  That does not mean that they are all equal in these respects.  As robvalue put it:

(July 7, 2015 at 12:42 am)robvalue Wrote: It's virtually impossible not to cause harm of some kind through what we do and what we eat. All we can do (if we're so inclined) is to try and minimise it based on what we think is most important.

I dislike the attitude I've heard from some people that since you can't be 100% harm free you may as well not give a fuck at all.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Save a cow, share vegetarian recipes please! - by Pyrrho - July 7, 2015 at 12:29 pm

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