Salmon Egg wrote:

Unless you eat only fruits, you are killing plants such as lettuce when you
eat them. I am not a PETA person, but why are plants any less alive than
animals?


Andy asks:

For that matter, what about the fragile lives of viruses and bacteria
?
Are they less alive that larger entities , such as ourselves, and wooly
mastodons, and aardvarks ?

Do we have the right to take drugs when we are ill and kill the
millions of germs that also have the gift of life ?

Too deep for me to ponder. I'm getting another beer and look up
the words to "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" one more time.......

Andy in Eureka, Texas