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# Yeah, but no, but yeah...
Plastic isn't the same as meat is it?

Oil is made from stuff that died thousends of years ago, and has just become a chemical.

It's hindus that buy cars with leather seats that I don't understand. But then I'm not going to pretend to know enough about that religion to pass judgement. I'm going to stop typing now.
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:38, archived)
# Tescos value meat products - I rest my case
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:39, archived)
# Damn, you got there first.
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:40, archived)
# I just wondered how long
an animal has to be dead before vegans are allowed to use them. Is there a statute of limitations?
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:41, archived)
# I thought oil was trees.
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:42, archived)
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(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:43, archived)
# Both, I think.
Having looked it up. Though I guess it's far from certain, seeing as homogenous black goop is difficult to reconstruct plants or animals from.
It's a good point, though. The oxygen in the atmosphere was originally an animal product, wasn't it?
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:43, archived)
# You learn something every day...

"Crude oil was made over millions of years from tiny plants and animals, called plankton."

From : www.schoolscience.co.uk/content/4/chemistry/petroleum/knowl/4/2index.htm?origin.html
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:46, archived)
# There you go.
Animals!
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:48, archived)
# Yes, but that's a schools site.
If they don't know the answer to a question they just make it up in order to maintain a facade of authority.
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:49, archived)
# I dunno. This is a valid point.
But coal is made from dead trees, and oil is dead plankton. Isn't it?
(, Mon 7 Feb 2005, 10:42, archived)