I'm not a vegetarian, but it's not deliberate cruelty. It's incidental cruelty. The cruelty is not the goal. (And cruelty it is. That's just a statement of fact. Whether that cruelty should be engaged in or not is another matter.)
--- On Wed, 4/15/09, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: When vegetarians claim eating meat is deliberate cruelty it follows that those who eat meat are deliberately being cruel.