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Comment on: Re: How does environmentalism play into the animal rights movement?

Bigthink — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:18:04 +0100

I completely agree with Ingrid. I am completely vegan for the animals, but eating meat & dairy also hurts our environment in the worst ways. Eating meat and dairy harm the animals, our environment, and people's health.

Comment on: Re: How does environmentalism play into the animal rights movement?

Bigthink — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:06:56 +0100

No I really agree with her. Obviously you didn't understand her point, you can say you are an environmentalist but action is another thing. She cites two very valid non-partisan sources, too. And as for your deer argument, animals don't overpopulate unless someone is messing with their numbers. If we stopped hunting they would go back to their regular survival ways of not having more babies than necessary. But because they know they are at risk for being murdered, they as a specie have more babies. Its science. Anyway, even if you had an argument, Ms. Newkirk was mostly focusing on the factory farming industry.

Comment on: Re: How does environmentalism play into the animal rights movement?

Bigthink — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:26:55 +0100

I'm with the guy above me here. Why can't an enviromentalist be a meat eater? I happen to have more respect for people who hunt and truly connect with their food and where it came from. What an incredibly arrogant statement you make Ingrid!
shelly meateater enviromentalist

Comment on: Re: How does environmentalism play into the animal rights movement?

Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:00:55 +0100

I know plenty of meat eating environmentalists. They go hunting in their back yards for white tailed deer that overpopulate the area. These deer overgrazed the native plant populations. The hunters then eat the meat that they hunt and properly dispose of the other remains in an environmental fashion. This in turn saves fuel costs of transportation of the meat that they would otherwise be eating had they not shot Bambi.