Stroobz
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Stroobz
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The Lance Armstrong testicle that got away. I also write prose.
The "I don't want anything to die for my food" position that vegans love to gloat about. Right. Have a look at arable farming. Before planting: the field is ploughed. Every mammal, insect, worm, nesting bird, and small rodent living in the top thirty centimetres of soil is killed, displaced, or destroyed. This happens to millions of acres. At harvest: the combine moves through the crop. Mice, voles, leverets, ground-nesting birds, and anything else that lives at crop level is killed by the machinery. Studies on arable harvest mortality suggest small mammal deaths per acre in the tens to hundreds, depending on species and timing. In between: pesticides, herbicides, fungicides. The invertebrate population: the insects, the beetles, the creatures that form the base of the food chain, is deliberately suppressed to protect the crop. Farmland bird populations have declined by over fifty percent since 1970, largely attributed to the collapse of invertebrate abundance on arable land. The soybean field does not look like death. It is quiet, green, and orderly. It is not bloodless. It is just that the blood belongs to things too small or too numerous to name. The cow in the field has a name, approximately, or at least a tag number. The cow's death is visible, documentable, and countable. The voles and the skylarks and the beetles in the soy field are not counted. They are, however, dead. There is no bloodless diet. There is only blood you can see and blood you have decided not to look for.
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