> All I have to say to this is, "Bull!"
>
> Phil.
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> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Mad enough to want to break something?
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>> What this man did was reprehensible no doubt, but, after all we kill beef
>> in just as inhumane ways, and eat them.  You should see the horrible
>> things done to chickens before we kill them and eat them.  What is the
>> difference between this sort of cruelty and that we show to animals and
>> lobsters we eat?  Why do we show more respect to canines than we show
>> bovines, fish or birds.  I say they are all animals and we have dominion
>> over them all.  We have no rite to judge the cruelty others show dogs if
>> we are willing to eat a cow who has been allowed to stand for hours in
>> it's own waste before we kill it to eat.  Before which we feed it corn,
>> not native to them, just to make them fat and succulent for our own
>> tables.  Its miss feeding causes them inordinate distress.  But, do we
>> care.  We do not.  This is why we eat animals without knowing how they
>> were prepared for our consumption.  So, till we do care, we are in no
>> position to judge the cruelty of others.