Meat Morality and Human/Animal/Alien Rights

Hey, Bluejay.Your link is "forbidden". Any help?

I take it from this sentence that you have never seen the documentary, The Cove.

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The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in Taiji, Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat.

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Italics mine.

Hey, Huntard One reason in support of a meatless diet is the ability to feed a greater proportion of the human population. (Meatless) Vegetarians are primary consumers, consuming a plant-based diet. Eating corn-fed beef, for example, lifts us to secondary consumers; the cattle eat the plants, mostly corn, and we, in turn, eat the cattle.In so doing, we lose ~90% of the energy available to us in the lower trophic level, as primary consumers. Edited by BMG, : Forgot a greeting.

Hey, Hyro I mentioned this was a "generalized model" before removing it after an edit: It appears I should have left it in.Corn was used more as a representative of plants- autotrophs/producers, a trophic level too low for us to attain. The point is that by choosing to subsist on a diet from a lower trophic level, more energy is available to us all.Note: I cannot stress enough what Pseudonym has mentioned previously: I don't think everyone must act in accordance with my belief: I can only decide, to a certain extent, what actions I will undertake, and which ones from which I'll refrain.Edited by BMG, : Forgot greeting, again.