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Trapped! Vegan restaurants struggle with humane pest control
WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | 25 April 2016 | KELLI KENNEDY

Posted on 04/25/2016 6:28:06 PM PDT by COBOL2Java

MIAMI (AP) — Even the wellbeing of rats, roaches and spiders are a concern for animal activists. But they also pose ethical dilemmas for owners of vegan restaurants who need to keep those pests out of their kitchens while trying to abide by no-kill values.

Melanie Cochran, owner of The Wild Cow Vegetarian Restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, was adamant about not using traditional pest control services when it first opened. For a few years she was able to keep pests at bay, but when the restaurant developed a problem, she called an exterminator even though she said it went against her vegan principles.

“We have to focus on the bigger picture. Vegan restaurants need to stay in business as a way to put a dent in the dominance of the factory farm system. We want to show people that it is possible and easy to reduce one’s meat intake, or even eliminate it entirely,” she said.

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To: BuffaloJack

“My wife is Buddhist, can’t kill anything.”

Plants are living things.

L


41 posted on 04/25/2016 8:08:31 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: butlerweave
They don’t mind killing Plants

So they're specists? They favor organisms like themselves (animals), but kill those (plants) who are different?
42 posted on 04/25/2016 8:27:44 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: COBOL2Java

IOW, she values $$$$ over the poor little creatures lives.


43 posted on 04/25/2016 8:49:43 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: WENDLE

What about bacon? I say eat bacon. Besides being tasty it keeps the muzzies at bay.


44 posted on 04/25/2016 8:52:35 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: COBOL2Java

If vegans wore cowboy boots, those pointy toes were made for killing roaches in corners.

But, alas.....


45 posted on 04/25/2016 9:11:14 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: lepton; BuffaloJack

I have hungry Boas.

Send them to me.

:)


46 posted on 04/25/2016 11:37:02 PM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Hydrogenation isn’t used for extraction.


47 posted on 04/26/2016 12:01:29 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Cats will not only kill rats, but most all will kill cockroaches. It is their nature to chase down and kill small things that run around on the floor.

We used to have a cat that would run them down and eat them.
Disgusting to see.


48 posted on 04/26/2016 4:31:58 AM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type) Run the slimy Canadian lawyer= HELLO HILLARY!)
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To: Yardstick

Technically yes, but it is used in processing veg oils and it is what makes them even worse for us, health wise. And the vegs still do go through processing to get the oil out of them. no one eats corn and notes about how oily the corn is.


49 posted on 04/26/2016 8:14:29 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: patriot08

If I have to pick between my cats eating cockroaches, or cockroaches walking across my face at night, I will pick cats eating cockroaches EVERY TIME.


50 posted on 04/26/2016 9:11:32 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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