At 19:04 4/5/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Actually, in an experiment at Stanford, two cabbages >were placed side by side. As one cabbage had its >leaves peeled away slowly, no effect was observed on >the second. But when cabbage A was chopped with a >cleaver, cabbage B emitted a sudden burst of infrared >radiation. > Some people, concerned about such issues, live on >just fruit and then plant the pits. > Still, if everyone had to kill the animals >themselves to get flesh to eat, we'd a have a LOT more >vegetarians! > Thump Boiling all this discourse down: Plants feel pain, so we shouldn't eat them... Animals feel pain, so we shouldn't eat them... Can any of you Einstein wannabes name a food source which is neither? As an omnivore with appropriate dentition, I intend to continue to chose my meals from all possible sources until something is feeding on _my_ carcass. Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT, MPT, CCT, PFP, ACS, CRS. Decorah, IA - Certified Calibration Technician for Bio-powered Digitally Activated Lever Action Tone Generation Systems. - Pianotech Flamesuit Purveyor - American Curmudgeon Society - Apprentice Member and Founder
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