Comment on Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices

Mon, 04 May 2009 19:53:14 GMT

For example if you claim to prefer non-existence of animals to them being used as food, then you clearly must support destruction of all nature reserves, as that's exactly the same choice.

This isn't obvious to me at all. Can you explain?

And if you're against animal suffering, you'd be totally happy to eat cows genetically modified not to have pain receptors.

Pain is not the only form of suffering. Temple Grandin has suggested that animals are worse off when they are afraid than when they are in pain.

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