From: Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 12 1999 - 13:02:15 MST
I am not a proponent of animal torture. I would never knowingly
torture an animal. I suppose re: this entire discussion that
ownership of an animal may need to be looked at as a different sort of
ownership than the ownership of a chair, but I'm not clear as to why.
I'm from Mississippi and I remember my grandparents telling me how
they used to kill hogs by dumping them live into scalding water. Then
they ate 'em. Yum. Was that torture?
I'm all for the wholesale butchering of cows and hogs and fish and
other yummy animals. I don't think they should be unnecessarily
harmed, but I have no problem with raising animals for the sole
purpose of killing em and eating em. We've (humanity) been doing it
for a long, long time.
How many people say they're for ethical treatment of animals and only
mean the cute ones? How many skittish vegitarians are more than
willing to smack the shit out of a spider or a fly (or have their
boyfriends do it for them)? How many of us give a damn when we step
on an ant bed? Who'd feel bad if I shot a snake (or cut it in two
with a machete)?
I'm not sure that non-sentient beings have a right to their own
"selves." Will have to have a discussion about the treatment of
bacteria and amoebas?
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