It is a tough one..............but at least we see what is really involved.
The vast majority of people never even think of it...............chicken
just comes frozen or at KFC.  No animal or killing involved.  That is what
is a shame..........when you eat meat and don't even realize what is in the
whole process.
I for one, because I now have farm animals mostly as a hobby, at least
realize what is behind the whole process.  And, although there are weird
feelings about killing one's own animals, the whole process of buying
animals and watching them reproduce and feeding them and making sure their
lives are nice and their needs more than met is a process that I think is
beautiful and very meaningful to me.  Yes, we kill to eat, but we also kill
plants to eat and break their life cycles.  I guess the fact that we kill to
eat means that, as much as we tend to ignore it, we humans are part of the
whole life system as much as every other animal.................whether it
be an insect, a buffalo, a shark, a palm tree.
P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esben Brun" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:35 PM
Subject: Killing !


> 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
>
>