I find it hard to believe we weren't meant to eat animals since they're made up almost entirely of meat. (That's a joke.)
Anyway, in my neck of the woods there are quite a few Hmong families. My next door neighbors are Hmong. They have meat chickens in their yard in a tiny itty bitty little cage that they never come out of. When the family is ready to eat one, they just come outside and kill it. Every once in a while they kill a pig back there. One Hmong friend of mine said she accidently killed her dad's rooster because he ate something he shouldn't have so she slit his throat to get it out. I'm guessing she wasn't trained in chicken heimlech manuevers. I'm all for the humane treatment of animals, regardless of what they're used for. Just because you plan on killing them for food doesn't mean you have to be cruel.
But saying a cow's life is more valuable than a human's is ridiculous. Or that the Chinese people who eat dogs should be killed mercilessly. Wth. Part of being at the top of the food chain is getting to decide who is your food. How we decide who is our pet is completely arbitrary. Who decides a dog is cuter than a cow? So the dog is too cute to eat for Americans. Fine. Personally, the guinea pig is a little too cute for me to eat, but I'm not going to fly across the world and tell people to stop eating things I think are cute. Nobody gets to decide the value of anything's life. But, as part of nature, we're going to obtain our food as long as we can. being human just means we can do that while inflicting as little pain as possible.
Hey, I'm not out there hunting Asians who eat dogs, I just think it's a sickening concept, and my point is that it seems altogether to often, people
don't kill animals humanely. Matter of fact, now you've reminded me, not only do the Chinese eat animals that are considered beloved, intelligent pets the world over, they also keep Sun Bears in tiny cages and harvest their bile fluid, restaurants keep live bears out back and whenever they want to create themselves a bear-claw soup for some wanker businessman - for the non-existant, bogus libido boost - they simply go out back, saw-off a claw, and leave the animal there licking it's stump.
And lets not forget those live monkey brain 'party meal'. Saw off the top of a monkeys head, then let all the little China-men grab chopsticks and start digging into it's brain while it's still alive.
You wanna parrot politically correct slogans at me whilst defending such an appalling cultural practice, you go for it.
And I'm not racist at all, before anyone starts on about that. I'd look down on anybody of any ethnic group - regardless the race - for engaging on such disgustingly cruel, neanderthal practices be they Asian, English, Australian or American.
Fuck political correctness. Like you, as a resident of planet earth, we all have the right to speak-out against any practice that causes torment to another living thing. It's a nice cop-out response these days to mumble trite shit about cultural differences, but if something's wrong - it's wrong, and forcing animals to live in hellish suffering - or making them hellishly suffer as they die, is
wrong.
I'm not saying people should stop eating meat - planet earth is so far from any eutopian dream - that'll never happen, but treating animals like things should be shunned by all of us.
Anyway, I got baked potatoes and sauce for dinner, so I'm going to eat it
