At 03:29 PM 8/9/98 -0700, you wrote:

>beside my point. My first reason for not eating animals is the
>suffering of individual animals, not an abstract view by  species. As


My cat killed a bird today. If I had realized cats were so cruel, I would
not have gotten one. It is my daughter's cat, she is very attached to it.
But few things can be more cruel than a cat torturing a bird....

Can you even imagine the amount of torture/suffering that goes on every day
in our back yards...