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If you would not personally slice a chicken's beak off, or castrate a pig without pain relief or slice open an animal's throat, why pay someone else to do it for you? Where is the basic integrity in entering into this mercenary relationship? [. . .] Eating meat involves paying people to do things for us that most of us would not do ourselves.
Throughout human culture, generally there were only a few people in a group who had the ability to butcher animals...it's been this way for thousands of years so I don't really think this argument flies. The vast majority of meat eaters throughout history haven't had to kill or butcher their own meat.
Regardless, I have done all of the above and more. I have no qualms about eating meat, although I do keep it to a few times a week for health reasons, not moral or ethical reasons.
what a surprise, an arrogant vegitarian making the same tired old arguments to try and convince people that eating meat is somehow wrong, and that a vegitarian lifestyle is the only ethical way to live. what he doesnt tell you is that there are certain proteins that you can get only from eating meat, and you need those proteins for a healthy body. i am not saying that eating meat in large quantities is the way to live ones life, and i dont care if someone decides to be a vegitarian either, that is their choice.
personally i also belong to PETA, people eating tasty animals, and i wont be giving up my meat anytime soon. we as human beings are the top of the food chain, a position we share with other predators and omnivores, and have been since man was put on this earth.
It is an interesting perspective but it really flies in the face of nature. We are part of the food chain, we are omnivores, nature had a reason for that. Just as nature has a reason for all animals to be what they are. I will concede that nature probably (although I have no way of knowing) did not intend for us to raise animals for slaughter the way we do.
My dad taught me how to hunt and fish, kill and clean. Truth, I wasn't at all interested. But then, I had a maid at home to do the dirty work for me. She grew up on a farm where they raised, slaughtered, cleaned and cooked their own food.
Now, the government won't let me keep the necessary zoo on my property for me to raise and slaughter. I have to pay someone to do that for me. Of course, if my neighbor were a butcher then I could mow his lawn in exchange for some fat backs or some such.
PETA needs to stick to fur coats and let the real men worry about the food chain.
if it's slow enough or dumb enough... it's dinner.
LMAO!!
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Originally Posted by Kerby W-R
If you would not personally slice a chicken's beak off, or castrate a pig without pain relief or slice open an animal's throat, why pay someone else to do it for you? Where is the basic integrity in entering into this mercenary relationship? [. . .] Eating meat involves paying people to do things for us that most of us would not do ourselves.
I couldn't personally enter a battlefield of war but I'm glad there were those that did and those that will.
If the man who wrote this article is pro choice he needs to shut his hypocritical mouth.
Deer abortions?
Just let them eat Monsanto corn.
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