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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (248913)	5/5/2008 10:58:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	of 793855

A farmer mows his field (apparently an acceptable action, perhaps because the hay is intended to feed the farmer's herd--the report doesn't say). But then, while walking home, he casually "decapitates" some wildflowers with his scythe. The panel decries this act as immoral, though its members can't agree why. The report states, opaquely: At this point it remains unclear whether this action is condemned because it expresses a particular moral stance of the farmer toward other organisms or because something bad is being done to the flowers themselves. There are similar discussions in the Talmud, with this essential difference: what's wrong about casually destroying plants is the casualness. It's the wrong attitude. One should be attentive to what one is doing, and use the fruit of creation in an attentive way, giving appropriate thanks to God. PETA resembles various moral movements stemming from the Jewish and Christian traditions, except that it's become totally unmoored from anything. So any amount of whackiness is to be expected.

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