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Aug 4, 2007 3:51:10 AM
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It seems that this discussion on animal rights is based on killing animals for the consumption of meat. In that sense I feel that it should be pointed out that all life survives on death. Carnivores hunt and kill animals to eat, Herbivores graze on plants for food eating and killing living tissue, Plants draw nutrients from the soil, the nutrients ? dead plant and animal tissue. All life depends on death. Do you think that killing a plant is better than killing an animal? much has been done to insure that animals are slaughtered as quickly and humanly as possible. Has anything been done to promote humane killing in nature? If an animal is brought down by a lion or a wolf, if it is lucky it's throat will be ripped out and it will die quickly, or it's rear legs will be torn apart and it will lie there in agony while the predators rip it's belly open and feed on the entrals. Do you think that harvesting plants is better? Many are chopped off at the stem and torn apart to get the good parts, or fruits torn from the branches. But plants don't have feelings, or do they? They are not aware, or are they? Vegetarians eat salads, fruit, and beans, all living tissue till you crush it in your teath. Or do you prefer to kill it by bioling it in water or oil. Salad dressing, oils pressed from plants, Olives, living tissue torn from the tree and crushed to press out the oil. Do you like wine? grapes, living organisms, torn from the vine, crushed and fermented (infected with a yeast for decomposition) for your pleasure. Quit arguing about what you are going to kill to live. If you don't want to kill anything, Good Luck. As for me I'll eat a little of everything.
by thedoc
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