[lbo-talk] good morning my fellow ecosystems

[Miles Jackson]

Chris Doss wrote:
> I think a lot of jokes at the expense of vegetarians are the result of a guilty conscience. I have never seen a coherent ethical argument in favor of eating meat (as opposed to practical ones). Doesn't bother me much though, since I don't have a problem acknowledging that I participate in evil.
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>> On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Miles
>> Jackson wrote:
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>>> I know some of the vegetarians on the list have
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>> ethical objections to killing cows and pigs for food, but if
>> I were forced to choose between killing a cow and killing
>> one of these microbial communities, the choice would be
>> easy. The cow's dead meat.
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I'm not making a joke; I'm making a semi-serious moral point.  Why 
should we hold bovine life in higher esteem than microbial life?

Miles

ps.  Thanks for your keen insight into my motives.  I know myself so 
much better now!