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http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=7498116&src=...

Notice this is what happens when wrong philosophical systems take over ecology, environmentalism, and more. The bone and other items are some of the most nutritious parts of the animal to eat; to deny real meat to growing children guarantees their improper development and other problems; I encourage you to check out our stories page and the new WAPF journal, among many other good resources that show the fundamental flaws of PETA and other similar groups. Humanity should not abuse animals, but nor should we abuse humanity by denying them the most nutritious foods on the planet and those foods that most contribute to the health of the planet as a whole.

Even worse for PETA, people eating only veggies and a little synthetically created meat won't stop animal death, but perhaps increase it exponentially. More animals die per year from grain and vegetable harvesting - killed by the chemicals, the run off of fertilizers and poisons, etc...- (especially soy, that vegan delight that is almost always GM, genetically modified, another problem with the vegan position ever being ecological, not to mention all the health problems with soy products) than on any grass based, free range farm.

A single acre of pasture sequesters carbon and other fossil fuel emissions (more effectively than trees, argue some scientists and studies, and certainly far more effectively than veggies), builds fertile topsoil for rotating crops across from time to time, turns large amounts of sunlight and inedible organic matter into nutritious, health promoting food, and takes the lives of only a few animals to feed many, many people. As Michael Pollan, Joel Salatin, and others point out, grass raised animals are the safest, surest, and least expensive way to feed the world (and cloth the world, as well... without the other products that humanity has made from animals from time immemorial, we would need more GM cotton and loss many important items, such as glue) and as Weston A. Price showed, also the way to produce the most healthful people. Animal products and the fat soluble vitamins they provide are crucial for children and those wanting to have children. Synthetic meat created in labs will surely require large amounts of not free (fossil fuel) energy and dependence on high-tech, meat "producing" companies, perhaps contributing to even more insecurity and instability in the world food supply.

Grain and other veggies require huge amounts of fossil fuels (and often other synthetic fossil fuel based pesticides, herbicides and more, especially fertilizers and bug killers to replace the missing animals who naturally fertilizer and debug the soil as they were created to do!), compact and degrade the soil, and may cause the death of hundreds of animals per acre in the tilling, weeding, and harvesting of the crops, not to mention the above problem of pollution and run off that has killed thousands of animals in our waterways and at sea. Well managed pastures radically increase bio-diversity and sustainability, while as Mark Prudey points out, vegan farming and food structures will result in little more than a vegan ecological wasteland.

PETA has a very good basic point - animals should not be treated the way we treat them in America and in many other countries. But PETA has their application and understanding of many other issues all wrong. As many authors have pointed out, if PETA wins, it will be just as bad for humanity and animals and the planet as if CAFO's and Monsanto and Tyson win.

WLC