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I use to believe all hunting was wrong until I saw how cattle and chickens are kept until killed. I had one of those lightbulb moments when a Reiki(I know I'm spelling that wrong)Master told me that everything you eat has energy and if you eat a stressed out animal you are eating that stress. My friends make fun of me because now I only eat "happy eggs." Give me a deer, elk or bison any day over a cow or chicken that was pumped with god knows what(anitboics, steroids) and was happy up until the day it died. No stress from living in a pen.
On side note, my husband, not the most enlightened individual, says in case of nuclear meltdown, he's eating the vegetarians first. They'll taste better.
Would you hire somebody else to kill a fly? While they're at it why not throw in some extra payment for them to torture it first?
I do agree with your sentiments here completely - but I wonder why you are OK with buying packaged meat when you are understandably horrified by the slaughter.
You should become a vegetarian tomorrow - you know what happened to those animals that are packaged in your supermarket...
Yes, I see your point and completely agree that a bit of hypocrisy is involved. I pay a substantial donation to WSPA ever month (Worldwide Society for the Protection of Animals), to help out law bear-bating and all sorts of other suffering inflicted on animals. I don't eat an awful lot of meat, but my other half does.
I think there is something wrong with someone who could get pleasure from torturing or killing an animal. I was raised on a small family farm where we raised and killed our own meat. I was sent into the house while Dad did the actual killing, but did help with the butchering. I always hated the idea that another being had to die that we might eat. However, this is the natural order of things. Even if you are a vegetarian, something must die in order for you to live. I have now decided that if something is to die that I might live, I have an obligation to live my life in such a way to try to honor those things. Just my thoughts and I am not asking anyone to share my views, I am just expressing them.
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