slaughtering is unpleasant but if you think it through where do you stop?
if you don't eat meat you can rely heavily on dairy. dairy requires cows to have calves. during a demonstration in the UK one time ( against cows beinhg shipped to France) a farmer pointed out, on Tv, that the vegetarians want the dairy but don't have solution for disposing of the calves.
if you then decide not to eat dairy either, it (vegan) is a very hard diet to stay healthy on and often requires supplements (calcium and Iorn in partic) and its particularily hard to rear children that way as they need so much calcium and iorn.
Then I suppose you should not wear leather or any hide. but would we then be using alot of plastics/ man made fibres ( soles of shoes) I sure it can be argued that you can wear cotton or wool.
what about all the insects that get mashed when you harvest the cotton? or delouse the sheep?
I think you should eat the cow and wear the hide. i think the animals should be treated humanely so i do try to buy organic/free range etc.
i love what greyeaglem says... the bear won't worry about your feelings or how your life was... if you are dinner you are dinner.
don't know if that helps young gun.
no bears round here TG!!  |