[Avodah] anti-meat rhetoric "according to Judaism"

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:22:58AM -0400, Jacob Farkas wrote:
: RMF discusses this regarding veal. See our discussion from a few years back:
: http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol17/v17n079.shtml#08

RMF's line, after looking in IM EH 4:92, appears to be between luxury
and common staple. If I could borrow an idiom from elsewhere, he would
permit a "davar hashaveh lekhol nefesh".

The approach I gave in my previous post on this thread if roughly that
of the Terumas haDeshen II #105. There is an akhzariyus issue, but no
actual violation of TBC. However, his justifying philosophy is not based
on making a chiluq between pain and suffering, which I tried to do,
but rather because animals were created for the purpose of man, and
therefore it doesn't take much pain to justify TBC. Even "just" profit.

-Micha

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