Re: PETA Staffer Legally Changes Name To KentuckyFriedCruelty.com


Cheryl Perkins wrote:

> mlabofski@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'm too hungover to fight, but how can you (and mass producers such as
> > KFC) ethically kill an animal? Unless you hunt and kill all your own
> > meat, that is? Surely when you kill an animal you're cruel to it.
>
> A certain level of cruelty is natural and inevitable in a world in which
> organisms eat each other. And since humans have evolved as omnivores it
> is no more cruel for us to eat a chicken than it is for a wolf to eat a
> rabbit. Less cruel, in general, since we are more capable ensuring that
> our dinner has a quick and relatively painless death than are most
> omnivores and non-obligate carnivores.
>

How can you ensure that your dinner had a quick and relatively painless
death, unless you are in the slaughterhouse to witness it? Not to
mention the cruelty of battery farming, I think in these days of mass
production, you can never be sure of that.

I don't support PETA any more, as they aren't radical enough for me,
and I think they waste too much money on publicity. I prefer to work
with local groups here in the UK, such as a group that campaigns/does
actions to get rid of the fur trade which IMO has no place in this any
more in a so-called civilised world. I've been a vegetarian for about
15 years now, I did it because of factory farming methods, which
sickened me - and I probably wouldn't want to hunt or fish for my food
now as I don't really feel the need to eat it any more, but I think
hunter/gatherer is the only way I would eat it (if I absolutely had no
choice for survival).

Just my 2 pence worth.

Marcia

> Personally, after many years of observing the pronouncements and actions
> of various animal welfare and environmental groups, the only ones I
> presently support are local ones that I know spend their time and money on
> actually caring for individual animals, not on political campaigns. This
> policy clearly elminates any support for PETA, which is way too radical
> for me.
>
> --
> Cheryl

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