Hey Pat: It is said that what is offered as opinion, is sometimes the mind we wish to have changed. We are looking for alternative views. Certainly we invite them.

--On 5 September 2007 15:43:40 -0700 Pat <[email protected]> wrote:

The wild one does have a chance to live, although he might starve to
death.


really, animals have economic crises do they? They starve to death when they lose habitat, that's a human intervention. And may I suggest any peaceful or sudden death by predation is far nicer than humane methods. They are a misnomer. The bullet and stun is not peaceful, that's all propaganda. Try a head injury or massive electrocution, listen to reports of head injury victims.

They will all die in the end.  I figure that if we didn't eat
meat, there would be no reason to let pigs and cattle be born.

That's ridiculous, do they need your help or permission: I suppose you created them too.

 At least we give them life

..I see, yes you did create life, probably by mixing chemicals.

and I hope most are well cared for.

so you are told by the industry. Find out - become a cowherd in several cultures, and include a biodynamic farm which has a small herd of milk cows.

 I realize many
probably are raised under lousy conditions, but I see many happy cows
grazing in green pastures everywhere I go.

That's a contradiction. DO the cows enjoy lousy conditions?
Do you know what unhappy cows look like? Where did you see them? I see stupefied unhealthy cows. Compare them to an Indian cow. The pictures of green fields on your food packages are not ideal for cows. They are the monocultures we've been conditioned to accept as images of paradise. They are boring green fields. Cows like trees for shelter, they like verges too, and variety. All souls do.

I can't bear to think about
it beyond that....it really bothers me to see them in cattle haulers.

It must be hard for you then. Perhaps when you do shut your mind off you eat cow (ok beef really) in greater comfort. Alternatively, kill your own beef (i mean cow). What would you do with the blood? collect it or let it run into your yard soil?

Look Pat, I am sorry to comment in a hard manner, but no offence is meant. You have your conscience, beliefs and upbringing. I don't respect them (that's just tosh to say I respect 'your' beliefs, or even you for having them - I have to tolerate them), but don't blame you for that either. It is almost impossible for you to be a vegetarian and enjoy eating soul-food when, 1) you weren't brought up as one, and 2) you live in a meat factory culture - it always assumed even by chefs that you are going to cook with meat. 3) the art of cooking is truly vegetarian, and we have lost that. 4) there are few good vegetarian cooks or cafes 5) vegetable concoctions are served as psuedo meat, sausages etc.. 6) the dominant brainwashing, called either education, scientific materialism, or foolish absurdity, which is in fact soul-killing indoctrination and control, doesn't have any truck with soul except to sneer, hovers over whether animals have feelings. 7) you don't realise being a vegetarian is healthier (the strongest man in the world - Moscow State Circus - is a vegetarian Muslim)

8) you don't realise that eating meat stunts your health, vibrancy and spiritual growth, and so therefore, your intelligence.

The again, perhaps I am wrong.

Sincerely,
John




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