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Old 06-24-2009, 07:38 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma View Post
YOUR point was that if everyone was a vegetarian, the world would be a better place with less suffering.

Mine is that it would make no difference. People are people and we'll always have monsters who masquerades as human regardless of what they eat.

If people cared as much about other people as they did animals suffering, there would be much less suffering.

THATS a fact.
But if we imagine that the amount of monsters are equal regardless of their eating habit, then there would still be less suffering if everyone was a vegetarian. It would mean far less co2, it would feed many more than meat production can possibly feed and it would kill and exploit far less animals.

Thus the total amount of suffering is reduced... even though the amount of madness and monsters and horrible deeds stay the same in every other regard.

Of course people are more important than animals. I haven't said otherwise. But that is not what we are discussing, unless you are mother theresa.
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