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Mice: The biggest losers with vegetarianism
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro ... sm/4660498
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Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
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Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
While that is very true, we can, at least, try to reduce, the damage by our actions.That's what I'm really asking for; just accept the fact that in order for us to survive, other animals are going to die. It has been the way of life in ecosystems long before humans were on the planet. We can't change that, we can't stop death out there.
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This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
These cute little guys, you can often see them twitching their nose and looking at each other but we didn't realise until somebody listened to them with an ultrasonic recorder that they are actually singing.
Like this?
Like this?
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Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
As reading the comments there a few points from them :
animals who are produced for meat eat grain also - lots of the grain grown today goes to animals
animals that are produced for meat milk and eggs suffer there whole life from bad conditions and if not bad at least not good - mice even if they die a slow death they still live free and happy
animals who are produced for meat eat grain also - lots of the grain grown today goes to animals
animals that are produced for meat milk and eggs suffer there whole life from bad conditions and if not bad at least not good - mice even if they die a slow death they still live free and happy
Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
if.only.people.stopped.taking.vast.quantities.of.that.grain
and.feeding.it.to.cattle.who.are.kept.in.cramped.conditions
and.then.cruelly.slaughtered,then.maybe.we.would.not
have.to.grow.quite.so.much.grain.in.the.first.place,thus
sparing.many.mice.from.getting.killed.as.well.
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and.feeding.it.to.cattle.who.are.kept.in.cramped.conditions
and.then.cruelly.slaughtered,then.maybe.we.would.not
have.to.grow.quite.so.much.grain.in.the.first.place,thus
sparing.many.mice.from.getting.killed.as.well.
metta
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Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
Or like this?plwk wrote:These cute little guys, you can often see them twitching their nose and looking at each other but we didn't realise until somebody listened to them with an ultrasonic recorder that they are actually singing.
Like this?
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Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
The author's bias against a vegetarian diet is evident:
Not true. Hundreds of millions of people live off a completely vegetarian and vegan diet and are very healthy.We are omnivores, we need those nutrients.
"Heritage"? So was slavery; not saying slavery is the same as meat, just that justifying something because it is culture or "heritage" is meaningless and certainly not something expected from a professor. "Noble"? Again, very inappropriate.The rest of us eat a bit of meat and a bit of plant material. After all, that is our heritage. We come out of a noble line of omnivores.
Correct; the argument the author makes is a very old one. A vegetarian diet causes the unintended consequence of killing to numerous insects and small animals. This is due to the plant-based agriculture to produce grains. The meat based diet causes these killings too. The animals are fed grain for years; so there is this same amount of killing plus the large animal that was fed for consumption. The best we can do is limit the amount of suffering and killing to the lowest degree. But he is correct that neither diet is completely pure and free of killing.purple planet wrote:As reading the comments there a few points from them :
animals who are produced for meat eat grain also - lots of the grain grown today goes to animals
animals that are produced for meat milk and eggs suffer there whole life from bad conditions and if not bad at least not good - mice even if they die a slow death they still live free and happy
Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
One possible alternative is to eat meat but buy it from small-scale, independent farms that are making an effort to provide a better quality of life for their animals and avoid environmentally destructive practices.
This is not a perfect answer either, but it may be that we have to choose from among various imperfect ones.
This is not a perfect answer either, but it may be that we have to choose from among various imperfect ones.
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Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
I agree, and IMO the argument being made by this athor is a classic straw-man to justify meat-eating. Feeding people grain is much more efficient than feeding the grain to animals and then eating them, which means to eat meat one needs to grow much more grain and therefore kill many more mice, insects etc.David N. Snyder wrote:Correct; the argument the author makes is a very old one. A vegetarian diet causes the unintended consequence of killing to numerous insects and small animals. This is due to the plant-based agriculture to produce grains. The meat based diet causes these killings too. The animals are fed grain for years; so there is this same amount of killing plus the large animal that was fed for consumption. The best we can do is limit the amount of suffering and killing to the lowest degree. But he is correct that neither diet is completely pure and free of killing.
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Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
The best way to eliminate the suffering and death to animals is to stop their births......we are a long way along this path already as seen by the environmental destruction which happens every day....if you like nature then you like the suffering and death of animals as this is nature's creation, not a human creation.
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Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
There is a little more nuance to this than first meets the eye. For instance, where I live the soil is so terrible that we can't grow most crops. However, we do have a layer of natural grasses that are able to feed cattle. Since these cattle are not feeding off an agriculturally raised feed, there are no mouse genocides. Many places that raise cattle do so because they can't grow anything else. It's one of the benefits of their four-chambered stomachs that they can turn otherwise non-agriculural land into productive land.David N. Snyder wrote:Correct; the argument the author makes is a very old one. A vegetarian diet causes the unintended consequence of killing to numerous insects and small animals. This is due to the plant-based agriculture to produce grains. The meat based diet causes these killings too. The animals are fed grain for years; so there is this same amount of killing plus the large animal that was fed for consumption. The best we can do is limit the amount of suffering and killing to the lowest degree. But he is correct that neither diet is completely pure and free of killing.
On the other hand, often these natural grass diets are often supplemented with agriculturally raised grains, especially just before slaughter. And when animals are fed entirely on agriculturally raised grains, the amount of grain that goes into a serving of steak is something like 40 servings of grains, a horribly inefficient ratio involving many more mouse deaths than when we just eat the grain ourselves.
My primary reason for reducing my meat intake is health and environment, which this article never attempted to address.
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Re: Mice: the biggest losers with vegetarianism
please accept this "stupidest sh-t i've read all day" award
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