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To: The Philosopher who wrote (106420)	6/23/2005 1:17:29 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Living does not have to cause pollution or disease. Your attitude seems sort of fatalistic. Can you show some RECENT studies that show no health detriments from meat eating? For example, that meat eaters do not have a higher rate of heart disease and some cancers? I do not know how you could assert this with a straight face and still consider yourself well read, but I will entertain the possibility of your finding some evidence to support your claims. We do still live in a society where people are free to do some things that are bad for them. But the public health costs are absolutely staggering, and we all pay those. With eating factory farmed meat, we are not only harming ourselves and the environment, but we are treating billions of animals brutally as well. Western Europe, a place I would have to consider generally more civilized than America, has passed laws that are being gradually enacted over the next several years ensuring that farm animals are considered sentient beings with the right to enjoy relatively normal animal lives, and to be killed humanely. I don't think people should have the right to be cruel to animals, and so I believe narrowing that "corridor of freedom" is completely right and appropriate.