In regards to eating meat

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The cancer cells are not "aware." Humans are. We make the choice to harm. Cancer cells don't make a choice to harm; they are in survival mode only; they have a mandate to survive and proliferate according to the environmental conditions.

So then, you are not making an assessment on "what is alive" but rather "what is aware".

I am totally against that. For many reasons. I buy organic. Now if you are going to split hairs, there is harm in any commercial operation, even organic.

OK. But my point was rather that PETA should call themselves "People for the Ethical Treatment of Mammals" because they don't seem to care much about the plight of insects or other non-cute-and-furry animals.

And yes, it does come down to splitting hairs IF one is insisting on a doctrine of "harmlessless". What does that even mean? What seems obvious to you, is not obvious to others. Humans have been arguing about this for at least 6000 years.

I am in the process of creating a greenhouse on my property so that I can provide my own food.

Sweet! Have you ever heard about these Growing Domes?

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I am very healthy, so I don't have a lot of the microbes, parasites, or "bugs" that unhealthy people have. Have you ever read that because of healthy soil, organic vegetables don't get the "pests" that unhealthy one do?

Sorry, but are you kidding me? You have expressed a completely false understanding of how your body works.

You have lots of microbes, parasites, and "bugs". In fact, 90% of the cells that are found in and on your body are not human cells. They are bacterial cells. Without these microbes, you could not live. Your life is directly dependent upon them.

Moreover, your continued existence on this physical plane is directly dependent upon the killing of microbes. By each other, and by your immune system. If it were not for death, you would not be "alive".

Similarly, if it were not for microbes in the soil, plants would not grow. "Healthy" soil is not sterile. Quite to the contrary. The reason that these plants do not get pests is because other living organisms are there secreting chemicals that are poisonous to those pests.

Furthermore, plants themselves secrete chemicals which kill insects. Plants even secrete chemicals that kill other plants or even kill humans.

All of this is by design. The Creator created the physical world this way. In the physical world, death is all around us, and it is an integral part of what makes "sustainability" sustainable.

To equate death with harm, means to equate life with harm.