Re: Who Goes First?
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Date: 08/17/04
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:52:47 -0400
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:25:34 +0100, Gluteus Maximus
<legion@ceaserus.com> wrote:
>http://www.bluehoney.org/Poultry.htm
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>Who Goes First?
>
>If you only choose one, drop the poultry, not the beef!
>
>by Michael P. Ryan
>
>
>Every day in the United States, over 20 million birds[7] are abused,
>then cruelly killed, without ever getting the legal recognition as
>"animals." This is a serious crime, and one that would easily, with
>close examination of the practices, convince a person to go
>vegetarian. Many people, when considering going vegetarian for the
>first time, automatically opt to eliminate red meat from their diet
>over other animals. However, if the person is becoming vegetarian
>because they want to reduce the amount of lives they take--a common
>animal rights reason--the elimination of beef over poultry products
>isn't the right first step.
>
>With a look at the numbers of lives being taken, it quickly become
>obvious that it is not the beef that should be the first to go; it
>should be the poultry. More than 7.8 billion birds a year are
>killed[7] for the human diet, but only 140 million cattle, sheep, and
>pigs.[4] In a single year the average American will consume, among
>other animals, 1/7 of a cow, 1/3 of a pig, 1 turkey, and 30
>chickens.[4,7] Using this consumption rate, if a person eliminated
>beef and pork from their diet, it would save, over the course of a
>typical lifetime, about 7 cows and 20 pigs, a sure benefit, and a just
>reason. However, the elimination of chicken and turkey from that
>person's diet would mean many more lives saved, in fact, nearly 2
>thousand more. This assumes that the consumption rate of the other
>sources of meat are not "accommodated for," and rise. If one
>eliminates red meat, but simply replaces it with an equal amount of
>chicken--as has been occurring for the last few decades--the number of
>lives lost will sky-rocket! In 1995, the average (live) weight of a
>slaughtered chicken was 4.67 lbs,[7] and for cattle it was 1,183
>lbs.[4] So, for every cow saved by switching from beef to chicken,
>more than 200 chickens will die.
Humans have been consuming birds of one sort or another since
time immemorial and there still plenty of chickens available for human
consumption They certainly aren't an endangered species are they.
Come to think of it, neither cows or pigs are on the endangered
species list either. So what's your bitch anyway? Surely you can't
think that the human's position in the food chain is an immoral one.
It is what nature intended it to be...Nothing more, nothing less.
BTW -- Replace birds with "tasteful four legged animals" in the above
and you have the same irrefutable argument for the continued
consumption of all meats
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