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Old 21-07-2004, 09:41 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Meat-eating [Was: Clarification: HOW YOU CAN HELP stop fishing?]


In article ,
(Mike Lyle) writes:
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| Not sure if any in urg are following this irritatingly mixed-quality
| thread; but it's not entirely irrelevant. We do need to change to a
| low-meat diet, regardless of health issues, because high levels of
| meat-production are not sustainable in planetary terms. For some kinds
| of meat and fish, this is already reflected in the price; so, without
| even thinking much about it, many of us already use animal products as
| a treat or a flavouring rather than a major fat and protein source.

That does not follow - we could perfectly well adopt the strategy
proposed by Swift :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.