Does your country take better care of their livestock?
Yes
15%
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No
36%
[ 7 ]
I Don't Know
42%
[ 8 ]
About The Same
5%
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Lea Intermediate User
Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 219
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject:
I couldnīt see the video, but can imagine its horrible. Animals shouldnīt be killed at all!! I was in India, there was no meat, no milk, and people are still alive. I was as well. I can eat meat, but donīt have to. It is not worth causing pain to animals just for our bloody tastes.
Edit: just came across chicken slaughtering on the market here in Peru yesterday... I couldn't believe it, they were pulling, twistin and breaking their necks.. and it's going on every day, should record it on video... I also saw killing fish... Altogether these markets are like hell, dirt and blood and animals rests lying all over.
And it's not only chicken and fish it's goats and cows etc.. I often wonder what I have in common with these witch primitive people, they have no feelings at all.
Last edited by Lea on Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:55 pm; edited 1 time in total
I became a vegetarian when I was 3 or 4 yrs old. I was vegan for 2 or 3 years in college but now that I'm married to a carnivore and we have a child it's harder to go back to that. I do make a point to buy organic dairy/eggs whenever possible though.
Our little one is mostly vegetarian but we do give him fish. If he chooses to eat meat when he's older that will be his choice, it simply isn't something I choose to feed him, and my DH is okay with that.
For me it's largely an emotional issue... I have always felt very connected to animals and I tend to take on their pain...
What is also absurd is, that people tend to feel sorry only for some animals, for those cute ones. Not for fish or poultry and other domestic animals. Maybe also because killing them is so widespread and customary, that it seems somehow normal. But it doesnīt take away the fact, that it are horrible murders on innocent beings. Besides domestic animals are not even stupid, they are sensitive and intelligent (more than people sometimes).
And taking fish out of water, they suffer the same way like if you drown a kitten!! Today, the fishers donīt kill them straight away, they just donīt care and leave them die on the air. I think fish communicate in ultrasound so they cannot be heard crying.
I remember an old teacher had a go at me in class for about 10 mins. in front of everyone for being being the son of a farmer who uses pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides and so on and so forth. It was funny when I said back err...sir actually were organic.
Ive seen a fair bit of death around the farm, ranging from taking cattle to the abattoir, seeing a few very ill cattle being put down over the years, having to move still born calves.
Does it bother me? Yes it did the first few times, but now not so much, its to be expected now and again on a dairy farm.
I eat meat pretty regulary its healthy and tastes good, if no one ate beef or dairy products etc. would cattle, sheep or other domesticated animals even exist? I think in many ways that selective breeding of these animals has gone too far for example the Holestein, Friesian breeds of cattle (sterotypical black and white cow) is pretty much just bred for quantity of milk. Meaning that these animals health can suffer as a result as well as having a much shorter lifespan. I dont think you can blame the farmers, more often than not if they didnt use these breeds they wouldnt even break even as a business.
I cant even comprehend the consequences of the farm having an outbreak of foot and mouth, this farm had it in 1969. But Ive had an easy childhood compared to my father when he was told by his father when he just 12 years old to help with the cull of over 100 seemingly healthy cattle.
Some say it is impossible not to kill animals, because they would soon take over us, but today the animals are bred in mass, most of them even never go out. This is unnatural. If we didnīt eat meat/milk, these animals just would not exist. Only those who could be allowed to live naturally like farm animals. In India they do keep animals, but very little and use them mostly for eggs (milk, but thatīs almost nonexistent there).
I do not blame people for eating meat however, I know its hard not to when we have the chance. I myself like milk and dairy and when there is the opportunity, I buy it. But if it wasnīt, I could do without. Itīs all about habits.
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