Read "Covenant of the Wild:Why Animals Chose Domestication" by Budiansky
(see bibliography).

The cruelest thing you can do to an animal is to make it extinct.  Over a
billion pigs owe their very existence to bacon.  They live a much longer
average lifespan than do wild pigs, suffer much less from parasites and
diseases, and have much kinder deaths than do their wild counterparts.  They
live a life of leisure in a climate controlled enviroment surrounded by
their friends.  They probally see it much in the way protrayed in the
beginning sequence of the movie "Babe".  Most species of wild pigs face
extinction due to habitat destruction by farmers except in places that are
preserved to provide game for hunters.

Practicly the only Pleistocene megafauna that survived the flood (caused by
the melting icecap) were who entered into the arc of covenant with Noah and
became our domestic animals.  Let's not let them down.  As St. Paul said -
"the way to detect a false prophet is that he preaches vegetarianism".

The vegetarian movement has nothing to do with the health and well being of
any animals or humans.  It is a political movement designed to make humans
more dependent on agrairian crops and thus better serfs.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
http://www.neanderthin.com