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?

[Janet]

I hate killing, which is why I'm a pescetarian. You may be thinking "but that means you're okay with fish dying, right?" and you'd be right, but I never said I wasn't a bit of a hippocrate.

I'm actually an animal rights activist, and am very careful about what types of fish I eat, but I do need some sort of protein in my diet. That's a reason, sort of. (Anyone know a way I could cut out fish and go Veggie?)

[Katie]

I've been wanting to be a vegetarian for a long time now. Maybe a year. Brought it up a couple times with my mom but she wants me to continue eating chicken and fish.
Well I hate hunting. It's completely immoral and should never be considered a sport. There is plenty of processed meat in the grocery store, so most people don't need to hunt.
As for the inhumane animal killings, I've signed countless petitions and written several complaints to companies that practice medieval methods.
How can anyone hate animals? Thankfully I've never heard of someone like that, but it makes absolutely no sense to me. If anyone cares to explain that would be wonderful.
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[sabelmouse]

sadly that processed meat will have hurt the animal more than hunting.

[sabelmouse]

trophy hunting in africa

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/aug/11/trophy-hu...

[sabelmouse]

i think this is a very good question.

http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/teaching-children-t...

Children at the Lydd Primary School in Kent, England raised a lamb named Marcus by hand and then voted to have him sent to slaughter.

The school started a program, which involves some 250 children, with the intention of teaching them about breeding and raising animals, which also includes ducks, chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs.

“The decision to send the lamb for meat, which has the support of the school council and staff, the governing body and the majority of parents, has now been carried out,” said headmistress Andrea Charman in a statement.

While some parents were in support of the program, others have issued statements saying their children have been traumatized by the event. Animal welfare advocates were also outraged by the decision and campaigned to save Marcus from slaughter, including making offers to buy the lamb.

However, Charman stood firm. The children, ages 6 through 11, had voted 13-1 to send Marcus to slaughter to use the proceeds to buy piglets for the farm. Although, with the backlash over Marcus, the school has put a hold on plans to buy more animals and may consider shutting down the program.

This type of program raises a host of ethical concerns over teaching children about the relationship between humans and animals. In terms of teaching them about farming, and where their meat comes from, painting a picture of cute baby farm animals being lovingly hand raised by children is hardly an accurate depiction of the life a typical farm animal faces.

Additionally, teaching them the lesson that animals are merely commodities used for profit could be setting the stage for a future generation of indifference towards other creatures.

[sabelmouse]

i think this is a very good question.

http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/teaching-children-t...

Children at the Lydd Primary School in Kent, England raised a lamb named Marcus by hand and then voted to have him sent to slaughter.

The school started a program, which involves some 250 children, with the intention of teaching them about breeding and raising animals, which also includes ducks, chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs.

“The decision to send the lamb for meat, which has the support of the school council and staff, the governing body and the majority of parents, has now been carried out,” said headmistress Andrea Charman in a statement.

While some parents were in support of the program, others have issued statements saying their children have been traumatized by the event. Animal welfare advocates were also outraged by the decision and campaigned to save Marcus from slaughter, including making offers to buy the lamb.

However, Charman stood firm. The children, ages 6 through 11, had voted 13-1 to send Marcus to slaughter to use the proceeds to buy piglets for the farm. Although, with the backlash over Marcus, the school has put a hold on plans to buy more animals and may consider shutting down the program.

This type of program raises a host of ethical concerns over teaching children about the relationship between humans and animals. In terms of teaching them about farming, and where their meat comes from, painting a picture of cute baby farm animals being lovingly hand raised by children is hardly an accurate depiction of the life a typical farm animal faces.

Additionally, teaching them the lesson that animals are merely commodities used for profit could be setting the stage for a future generation of indifference towards other creatures.

[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!

[Shirley]

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.