Killing Animals.

[Jacqueline]

People kill animals for different reasons. Some for 'experience', for their meat, and others just because they hate animals. What is your opinion on killing animals?

[Megan]

Has anyone seen the movie The Cove? if not, its about the killing of tens of thousands of Dolphins in a cove in Taiji, Japan. a shitload of dolphins are caputered off of Taiji. Dolphin trainers select a couple thousand to ship to dolphin interaction places all over the world. The rest are slaughtered for their meat, even though the population of japan doesnt even eat that much dolphin meat. These Dolphins are led into a secret cove out of sight, and are slaughtered.
I know that not a lot has been done to solve this problem. and in any circumstances where the dolphins meat would be used, this would not seem as cruel and disguisting, I cant help but wonder how people can be so cruel. The fisherman in the movie claimed they have been doing if for generations and generations.

I came out of that movie theater... feeling disguisting. In my mind i was like.. those monsters. How could i not know about this?
I know that these people who are doing this are trying to make a living. But how can you do something like that, and wake up every morning and not regret the decisions you have made in your life?

[sabelmouse]

have not seen it yet. where i live we must wait for the dvd.

[Connor O.]

you need to do more research, this is a very opinoin based statement.... damn vegans

[sabelmouse]

who are you talking to?

[Tasha NS]

I'm a vegetarian and try to use as little animal products as possible, though, sometimes stuff like leather is everywhere and hard to remove completly from stuff we buy but I do my best to avoid all that stuff. Also, hunting is one of the stupidest "sports" or "games" or whatever you call it ever!

[Unl8n Swallow]

Playing sports has a background from the days of practicing for war. Same as hunting as a sport has it's background in when that was a necessary skillset to stay alive. It's not necessary but it gets ingrained into a culture when other cultural factors are built around it.

Some people are sadists or under the affect of cultural consequences and killing an animal is how they regain equilibrium.

There is a natural order. Things consume other things; some things that get consumed are cute or fuzzy, others are ugly, slimy or made of rocks.

Humans are built to consume some of the animals in our ecosystems. That's just natural. The things that suck are when we waste parts of our ecosystem or destroy swaths of it for personal greed or sloth. Or cramming dozens of cows in a pen on top of their own feces and chickens in booths barely bigger than their bodies pumped full of antibiotics. That is NOT the natural order.

To vegans and vegetarians... DDT? Unless you eat 100% from your garden your plants are are the reason for pesticides destroying ecosystems, invasive species, unsustainable draining of natural aquifers, international economic douchieness to poor people and their whole families in other countries... The way we get our food is at least as important as what we're eating.

[Anthony Kramer]

For meat and so that we don't die from malnutrition. That is the only reason. However, that does mean people need to hunt for "the experience" so that's okay too.

[Malcolm Creigt]

Time to sound like something of a cold hearted meanie!

I'm alright with the Hunting of Animals.
That said, I'm not alright with the sport hunting of Animals.

To kinda attempt to explain myself, I believe that if you kill an animal you better well be prepared to use every part of it as possible. Meat for food, Fur/Hide for clothing, Bones for Tools or something useful.

[Zara]

My opinion: sometimes killing animals is necessary; mostly it's not; we should really eat a lot less meat.

[Natalie mogg]

Being a heterotroph sucks- we have to take other organism's energy because we can't make our own. It would be nice to be photosynthetic, but the reality is that we have to take life to eat.
I don't think that eating meat is wrong, I just think that the animal should live a full life before somebody kills it for food. We should seek out local sustainable farms that treat their animals well, instead of eating any sh*t that comes from a CAFO. I think that animals living on their own in the wild would have lived a better life then those on a farm. In an ideal society, maybe we would hunt instead of farm. But as it is, we raise animals for meat, so it seems cruel to kill wild animals as well- especially because many of them are disappearing as it is due to humans destroying their habitat.
killing for sport in any situation is seriously not cool. Has anyone noticed that when you kill a pet, you're going to grow up to be a serial killer, but hunting for sport is socially acceptable in a lot of places?
My thoughts on this are a bit scattered- hope that made sense!

[Michelle O]

I dont like it when people should kill animals for fun or kill the animals in a way that makes them suffer, but if if someone is going to eat the meat, then I don't mind.

[Shawn]

I hate brutal, or vicious killings of animals. Ones where they will feel pain, or suffer in any way. I think it's horribly wrong.
But damn, they can be delicious. I feel horrible when I eat meat, but I could just not live without it.