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Re: Herbivore vs. Omnivore
Posted By: wintermute, on host 195.153.64.90
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 01:15:08
In Reply To: Herbivore vs. Omnivore posted by Bo on Monday, May 21, 2001, at 19:48:05:

> In the interests of energy, it's more efficient for a human to only eat plants (Only something like 11% of energy eaten by cows, etc. is available to the next level on the food chain, humans) outspoken vegans often point this out, but fail to mention the fact that if everyone were vegetarian, then humans become competition with herbivores for food, and animals wouldn't win. Then food becomes scarce for the animals that eat the herbivores.

The way I see it, without meat eaters, animals wouldn't be farmed for food (duh!), so we wouldn't be competeing with sheep and cows and so on because they would be extinct, or only in zoos.

For this reason, I want to set up a tiger farm. I'm sure tiger meat would be popular enough that it would ensure the survival of the species. What could be better conservation than that?

winter"when did you last see a wild sheep?"mute

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