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Date: | Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:35:15 +0100 |
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The issue of vegetarianism is not trivial !
Is it ethical to kill animals? ( when it is not necessary to survive ) ?
Why do we condemn cruelty against animals - even legislate against it ?
Animals are clearly commonly regarded as more than mere "meat production
units" -
namely as being more or less like ourselves !
Yet I eat meat !
I try to buy free-range , organic "meat" - or should I say : animals ,
conscious individuals.
But I am not entirely comfortable with it - I have more questions than
answers.
I remember , as a kid , watching a pig-slaughtering on a farm.
Most of all I remember the warm smell of intestines when the bowel was cut
up.
Killing an animal is gory and grim , but perhaps part of being human ?
However most people nowadays are totally alienated to this.
The author Paul Shepard has written about this in the book "the tender
carnivore".
Esben
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