Re: Marmite Crisps - Slightly pregnant

On Jan 22, 9:27 am, "Django Cat" <notar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mb wrote:
And other people's point was that there is a limit to precision in
every measurement, depending on what is being measured and what the
exact use is.

Oh,good.

There is no absolutely 100% (followed by an infinite number of zeroes
after the point) vegetarian apple, because some worm has touched it in
its life, or someone's fingers did.

Thanks for explaining that, I'll look out for blood stains next time
I'm eating fruit.  Nobody has proactively gone out and killed anything
to produce that apple though, and as far as I know no veggies object to
their food being touched by live animals - just as well the way our cat
used to be.

Anyway, great.  Lets all go stuff our faces with pork chops, because
apparently at the end of the day nothing's 100% vegetarian, so who
cares, eh?  And let's make damn certain anybody who doesn't agree with
us is shown the error of their ways.

Demagogy compounded by idiocy . For the third time, this is about
confidence limits and degree of exactitude in measurement. There is a
certain limit to how much tolerance to contamination you can assign to
your definition of "vegetarian", that's all.

If your definition is just "proactively killing anything" (well, I
can't see how you retroactively kill anything) then how do you
reconcile that with a request of absolutely no impurities at all?

People seem to have a need to do a reductio ad absurdum on other
people's strongly held beliefs about eating meat.  So why is that?

Whuy the reductio ad absurdum of the highly reasonable request to
avoid spurious, totalitarian exactitude?

What is it about veggies, more than any other group of people who make
choices about the way they live their lives, that winds people up so
much?  Nobody's trying to stop you eating whatever you please.

How do you know I am not vegetarian?
But then I would certainly make an allowance for a given degree of
contamination --otherwise you wouldn't be able to eat anything at all.
.

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