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Originally Posted by terlis  I appreciate everyone being so passionate about shutting down puppy mills. I am vegan and am wondering if anyone has given any thought to any of the other animals that are bred and sold for slaughter to put meat on the table. Pigs, cows, chickens and other animals are brutalized, tortured and slaughtered so millions of people can enjoy their t-bone or McDonalds hamburger. People do not require meat for survival. My own family, and most of my friends are not vegan or vegetarian. It is hard to get away from animal products when you have spent most of your life being told you need those things for your health. An outright lie by the way. Don't want to start a war here, so please don't take this the wrong way.
I am just curious about how people can feel so passionate about only some animals and how they justify it.  |
I come from a family of hunters and my own father is a full-time state and federally licensed taxidermist. I can tell you the God's honest truth, we may be meat eaters and we may hunt and kill our food, but that doesn't make me any less of an animal lover. I know for a person in your shoes who feels that strongly about not killing/eating/using ANY animal that there is nothing I will ever be able to say to make you understand my point of view no different than anything you say to change mine, but i did want to say that for our family, without the ability to hunt and farm, we would have a lot of hungry winters. We don't make much money and just about everything on the dinner table at my house was home grown or hunted. We can't afford to buy all of our food in the grocery store.
As for hunting, we repectfully take the life of each animal and we use every part of it's meat when we take it. My father taught me that if you cannot make a clean kill in one shot, don't shoot. Basically we take our food in the most humane possible way.
I am from the standpoint that people ARE meant to eat meat and that certain animals were put here by God for our use. Biblically humans have always eaten meat and that is how I believe it was meant to be.
As for mass production chop house and slaughtering, that I'm not so in agreeance with. I hate seeing those videos of tortered animals. There is no reason to be cruel to an animal in the last few seconds of their live. Make a clean solid kill and use the product in every way possible without wasting. But i hate those that mass kill and are torturing in the process that is NOT ok. Local farmers don't act like that and i think mass producers are taking away from the respect and the livelihoods of many small town farmers who raise and slaughter with respect their livestock.
that's my two cents on this topic which is far from the original topic, but i had to counter your opinions with my own.