Animals are not there just for you to kill them.
They are there to live, just like you are.
A plant is entirely different. They are not breathing and living creatures like an animal.
Yes, I know they breathe too, but not like a flesh and blood animal. BTW, I do not eat meat, ever.
Killing wild hogs down here in Texas is, well, more of sport than for food, and is sanctioned by the state.
Ma’am, far be it from us to tell you to scat... we believe there’s a place for all God’s creatures, right next to the potatoes on the dinner plate. We love them, they’re finger licking good.... I know you mean well, but what are you going to do about the cats and the dogs? They both need meat too and they aren’t nearly as scrupulous as humans are about getting it humanely in the wild. I think if you could ask an animal if it would rather be slaughtered by a human or torn to death by another wild beast, there would be no doubt.
So in other words, if we don’t kill them, they just live forever? Sorry, but I grew up on a ranch and watched animals being born, dying, and being converted to meat on a daily basis. I’ve also had the good fortune to hunt game from Alaska to Zimbabwe, trust the opinion of someone who knows. Nature deals out death in a far more cruel method than any hunter does.
Ever see a pack of wolves eat the left hip from a caribou while they are still alive? I have. I am also the biggest animal lover in the world, in a couple hours I’ll be working cattle horseback in the cutting pen, later I’ll have a Belgian Mali sleeping with my wife and I. Your last line is typical also, since you don’t eat meat, you don’t think anyone else should. By the same token, I ride a HD, so should I think riding a Honda should be illegal? Immoral?
You will never experience raising as many animals as I have, nor save the lives of as many as I have, but somehow not eating meat makes you special?
Surely you know that there would be no wild big game animals in the US without conservation efforts by hunters?
As I said, your world is too small; get out and surround yourself with normal people.
I'm over 74, just checked my BP at 120/69, raise my own vegetables, eat what I shoot (except for the armadillos destroying my lawn -- they carry leprosy) -- and believe you are sadly misled...
I do not eat meat, ever.
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You poor poor thing , Suffering from loss of mental acuity, fertility, stamina and over all vitality. Whoever is subjecting you to eating vegetables only should be charged with endangerment.
“A plant is entirely different. They are not breathing and living creatures like an animal”
You haven’t explored your inner-Gandhi sufficiently to know that carrots scream when thrown into boiling water and green peppers feel pain when diced.
There’s a sect in India whose members avoid walking for fear of stepping on crawling sentient beings and wear face masks so they don’t inhale microscopic sentient beings and kill them.
I hear they are taking applications.