Re: Tues. 8/9 Big Show Synopsis

johnny bobby bee wrote:

> Brady wrote:
>
>> *RACHEL MCADAMS*
>> She was an OK guest. I must say: I'm not a vegetarian, but I couldn't
>> kill a chicken myself, even if I planned to cook it. (Unless I was
>> caught on an island and I had to do it to survive.) When I was a
>> fresh-faced high school kid, we once had to put together an insect
>> collection for biology class. I didn't really like the idea of killing
>> insects and putting them on display, but I reasoned that it was OK,
>> since it was all in the name of science. Of course, looking back I now
>> realize that the scientific value of that particular assignment was
>> probably negligible if not nil. I don't think I could kill insects now
>> and put them on display. I've even been known to catch spiders so that
>> I could let them out of the house. (And spiders sometimes really creep
>> me out.) I just have no desire to kill an animal, whether it's a deer
>> or a chicken or a beetle. Thus concludes my partial manifesto on animals.
>
>
> That's a very compassionate view you have towards critters, Brady.
>
> <disturbing imagery>
> One of my earliest and more unsettling memories of childhood is seeing
> my dad hold a rabbit by it's hind legs and with his fist, smacking the
> rabbit on the back of its head until it was dead. I can still see the
> blood dripping from the rabbit's nose. It was horrible. It's no wonder
> why I'm vegetarian.
> </disturbing imagery>

Yeah, that's pretty bad. I'm not sure that I'd ever even go fishing again. I never did, really. Although, as a youth, I tried it a few times. (I never was good at it. I didn't really know what the hell I was doing.) Now I'm afraid that the fish feels pain from the hook. Plus, I wonder whether it's traumatic for a fish to be out of water, even for a few seconds.

Brady
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