Posted on 10/05/2004 10:15:00 AM PDT by Armed Civilian
I just killed an ant. If I treated ants like I treat Bodhi, my yellow lab, I would go to jail. Where do you draw the line on what is animal cruelty and what is not?
Eat Mo cHiKin! " People Eating Tasty Animals" P.E.T.A
Not for nothin', but KFC sucks anyway...so they kinda have a point! lol
Painful debeaking? How is that possible? I always heard that KFC chickens were grown in factories with no heads.
Okay... do I go to KFC, or do I find a place that does a good veal parmesan sub?
> to deliberately treat animals cruelly instead of killing them as humanely as possible for our food, is sickening.
Indeed. Critters can feel pain, and causing pain for the purposes of entertainment is a sign of a sick mind. While I love my meat-chow as much as the next fella (MMmmm.... burgers....) torturing the critter to death is a sign of someone who needs to be separated from society.
I hadn't noticed... ;^)
A world renown chicken choker doing a PETA anti chicken choker ad. ;)
> Where do you draw the line on what is animal cruelty and what is not?
Are you causing pain and suffering specifically for the purpose of causing pain and suffering?
Is the target of your suspected cruelty a mammal or bird, or is it an insect or a reptile?
And is it a cat, dog or horse, critters that, beyond everything else, are "on our team?" Critters we've bred for our own purposes and who much of the human race consider our friends?
I saw a PETA decal on a truck the other day that was also plastered with Bush/Cheney stickers...there was some small print under the word PETA...any ideas? (I didn't get close enough to read it.)
It had to be "People Eating Tasty Animals".
It's a little south and east of Willow Springs, I think; maybe in Crestwood?
> people only want to save the cute ones that we can ascribe human traits to, like otters and seals, but cows are ugly and we only think of them as hamburgers
There is truth in this in two ways:
1: People do think that way. "Cute" is not for eating.
2: Many mammal *do* share some very human traits, and thus eating them can seem a bit disturbing. Sheep and cows humans have, over the past 5000-10,000 years, made into some pretty dumb and *boring* critters... they are just meat that reproduces. Any personality traits they have may be visible to the farmers who spend all day with them, but almost certainly not to the causal observer.
But in the cases of, as you suggested, otters, they are still what nature made them into... and what they are is a species that sure as hell seems to like to play, frolic and have fun. Clubbing them for chow, when there's a perfectly dull sheep standing right there, seems to be.... poor art, if nothing else.
Live scalding...painful debeaking...being stomped to death.
How do the PETA freaks know this is so bad?
Tell you what, I'd be happy to sponsor a study where we scald, debeak, and stomp-to-death a bunch of PETA volunteers to determine the actual effects of these practices.
Unfortunately, I think the USDA would ultimately disallow my proposal since no known member of PETA would pass the same rigorous hygiene standards that are applied to chickens.
Pamela Anderson should be more concerned about saline abuse...
I love small, cute, cuddly animals, especially with a good gravy.
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