At Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:09:22 -0500, you wrote:
>
>At 02:42 AM 1/21/99 EST, you wrote:
>>I have been following this debate with much interest for a personal
>reason. I
>>am the companion of three rescued potbellied pigs. They are most certainly
>>thinking, feeling beings who feel pain and fear for their survival. When
>pigs
>>are slaughtered, they are said to cry. I once heard the story of a pig that
>>was raised by a family to be eaten. On the day of his slaughter, the pig hid
>>in a corner and refused to eat. Pigs do not have a hypothalamus to regulate
>>their hunger and are always ready to eat. One could infer that the pig knew
>>it was going to die. I respect everyone's choice in eating dead animals,
>buy I
>>cannot understand it.
>>
>
>But in "respecting" their choice to eat dead animals, do you infer that you
>also respect their choice to inflict intentional suffering and fear?
>
>Just curious.
>
>- Charlotte.
>
The purpose is to eat, not to torture animals. Insofar as that happens, it is
inadvertant and not by malicious intent. HOW DARE YOU accuse nonveggies of being sick
sadists, taking cruel pleasure in animal terror and pain! When flesh is commercially
cultured in vats, will you decry the suffering of the "tissue-beings?" Is it the
taking of life, or the eating of flesh that repels you? I will not regret the advent
of hydroponic culture meaning that none of these animals will again be slaughtered,
or, for that matter, ever bred or born. When this natual practice for omnivores,
which you find so heinous, ends, they won't even get the life they have now (and that
will be a good thing). The Dr. Frankenstein human race will finally be able to end
the lives and lineages of the monstrous food species it has for millennia selectively
bred, and we will be free to go on to the next order of business; extinguishing the
slave-pet classes!
>
>
>
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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