"pearl" wrote:

"Bob LeChevalier" wrote in message ...

The redefinition of "murder" to include animals is one such
redefinition,

'murder
..
v.tr.
1. To kill (another human) unlawfully.
2. To kill brutally or inhumanly.
..
http://www.answers.com/murder&r=67

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the
murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
- Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist.

So what excuses killing vegetables from this definition. What we do
to prepare vegetables is at least as "brutal" as what we do to
animals.

Of course, it is hard to argue that killing plants or animals is
"inhuman" since we've been doing it as a norm since we've existed as a
species.

lojbab