From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Nov 28 2002 - 22:01:27 MST
natashavita@earthlink.net wrote:
> Is cowboy mentality a postive or negative characteristic?
>
> Sometimes it's no more than flinging lasos and wearing a holster.
Rustling
> cattle is one thing, but killing and eating cows is not something I
support.
Natasha, does it matter if the beast being slain
and devoured is a farm animal? In the case of
cows, if humans did not raise them for meat, then
they would never be born at all. So our meat eating
gives them *some* life. Fish caught from the sea,
however, are wild animals that would have a life
otherwise, so I struggle with an ethical dilemma:
farm fish OK to eat, sea fish not. Beef and pork
eating would actually be a good deed, providing
life, albeit short, to partially sentient animals.
spike
PS, I dont think you meant you support cattle
*rustling* either. Rustling means stealing cattle.
If you meant cattle *rassling*, that suggests another
one of those extreme sports that might be fun to
watch.
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