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To: Father Terrence who wrote (21614)	5/17/1998 3:18:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Hurting animals is a good thing -- it keeps us at the top of the food chain -- which is where we must remain if we intend to stay the dominant species in this sector of space.>> I think it is quite savagely primitive to assume that we stay at the top of the food chain by eating animals. There is really no chance at all that animals will become dominant over us if we do not eat them, and quite a bit of evidence that we would all be healthier if we were vegetarians, since they live several years longer on average than meat-eaters. I do think that becoming vegetarian is somehow subtly related to a whole way of viewing life and the planet that is more sensitive, more egalitarian, and less damaging in general. Controlling pollution essentially means not creating it in the first place. While some advanced technologies may help us do that, certainly low tech ideas like growing crops without pesticides, and eating the grain we eat instead of producing meat animals with it, are certainly simple and logical. Did you know that the number one cause of pollution in America is agricultural runoff? This is a very easily solved problem. Of course, the solution might get in the way of someone's PROFITS!!