From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 07:22:36 MDT
"Terry W. Colvin" wrote:
>
... The pens were extremely small, one
> animal per pen, and the cattle were fed a ground up mixture of many
> different types of food. Once the animal grew to a certain size, it was
> placed in a sling so that it's feet barely touched the ground and it was
> force fed several times a day and massaged with Sake and/or beer. The object
> of the alcoholic rubdowns was to calm the frustrated animal, which was
> highly stressed after being placed in the sling. When it came time for
> slaughter they injected Papaya juice into the animals veins so that it would
> go throughout the entire animal and help in softening and marinating the
> flesh. ...
The point of this post is? Cattle are, by far, about as high a body mass to
brain mass one can get in a mammal. There may be animals more stupid than
cattle, moose for instance, though that may be due to parasites rather than
physiology. Making them more stupid, without causing them to cease involuntary
functions altogether, would basically turn the animals into the meat equivalent
of a plant, which makes one wonder why there would then be any objection to
eating them if they are in fact mammalian vegetables.
Japanese agricultural methods should be the ideal that vegans aspire to. The way
they breed, coddle and polish each and every apple, tomato, or other fruit,
vegetable, or in this case, cow to acheive the highest possible food quality is
a testament to their tradition of gourmet food excellence.
Instead, what many primitivist vegas seem to want is for everyone to have to eat
pest ridden, rotting vegetable matter without the aid of refrigeration,
freezing, irradiation, canning, preservatives, or any other means of growing,
storing or preparing food in order to reduce spoilage. Such policies can only
result in increasing the amount of wilderness plowed under to eat the masses.
Vegans are the problem, not the solution.
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