[socialismisinsidious]

but I could make a lot stronger case for their position than the pro-life one, since birds and mammals clearly ARE sentient, conscious and autonomous - not requiring that you use your body to keep them alive.

Well then, lambs must be fine and dandy to place upon our plates then b/c they are NOT autonomous. Actually that is true for any baby mammal...infants still require breast-milk from Mama (and baby birds require chewed up worms) and therefore requiring that you use your body to keep them alive

Start crushing bird eggs or aborting the "fetal tissue" of dogs and this nut will freak. Hypocrite in the name of her agenda.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Heh, yeah. I actually made that point in my very first paper on abortion for English 101; one of my references was a cartoon that showcased two scientists talking about abortion. Paraphrased, it went like this:

Mr. Scientist: Well, they’re talking about abortion again.

Mrs. Scientist: We’ll never know when human life begins. They should just stop and let things be.

Mr. Scientist: Who knows. (grabs an egg to make an omelette)

Mrs. Scientist: (swipes the giant egg) That’s the egg of the California Condor! You’ll kill it!

Mr. Scientist: (huffily walks away) Well, I suppose YOU know when life begins for that then!

Same principle, really. The points offered by “The Angry Vegan” were fun to dissect. :D