[ScottM1968]

I have had pets and have tended them for others. I grew up on a farm. When you are around all types of animals, you respect them. But you can't let them become "human".

I remember 4H'ers who raised their prized animals for their eventual sale. Some of these animals were killed by the buyers for their meat.

It's a hard fact, but one needs to understand that pets can be a simple prized steak, pork loin, or leg of lamb to another.

If you can't develop appropriate releasing mechanisms, I can't understand how these same people feel happy about eating any sort of meat.

[najida]

Darlin',

You're intentionally being obtuse, aren't you? You really are so shallow of thought and belief you really DO believe you mean well, while I find you quite the opposite.

I discuss overt cruelty and you continue to talk about supper. You can't seem to separate food from torture.

Again, I too grew up on a farm where we raised everything we ate. I still live on this farm. I still eat meat. I still have a menagerie of critters that are my reasons to get up in the morning.. And I still get enraged at unnecessary suffering. That is the way "I" was raised.

Even in simple ole backwoods, Georgia. I was raised to believe that people who got off on animal's pain were to be avoided at all costs. We were raised to believe that was the mark of a twisted soul and some who would probably treat people just as badly.

Even in my bible-thumping, super-pious family, we were raised to believe that God often spoke to use through nature. That animals could teach us things, give us comfort, be a blessing. And yep, I believe that they will meet us in heaven, cuz it wouldn't be heaven if they weren't there.

Again, you seem scared spit-less that someone is going to take your steak away from you! How silly. Get over it. Personally, if I had to choose to never eat meat again, or live in a world where yours is the "Right way to believe" I would just scarf up the Tofu.

We are talking about cruel behaviors, cruel people. And the fact that we CAN control why and how we kill something. Something "I" learned way back in the days when you knew up close and personal the critter that was going to be supper. The evil of intentional cruelty is something you can't comprehend, which is why I said that you are the kind of person I would walk across the room to avoid. Do not post to me again.