On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:45:51 -0500, trotsky <
gms...@email.com> wrote:
>On 3/27/13 1:31 PM, Lu@Lu. wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:03:15 -0500, trotsky <
gms...@email.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/21/13 11:22 AM, David Johnston wrote:
>>>> On 3/21/2013 4:43 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Retailers were actually selling real fur and passing it off as fake
>>>>> because the demand for fake fur was so high. And who's the organization
>>>>> that lead the charge against real fur? PETA of course. This is just
>>>>> one of many causes they champion better than any organization on Earth.
>>>>
>>>> And among those causes is their crusade against Assassin's Creed IV. Do
>>>> they have a problem with it glorifying being an assassin and a pirate?
>>>> No. But kill a whale? Now they have a problem. Save the cartoon whales!
>>>
>>>
>>> I see your point: you are having trouble comprehending the principles on
>>> which PETA was founded.
>>
>> The total elimination of domestic animals is what those type of people want.
>
>
>Me too. Look, you seem sincere, but you're just behind the curve.
>Killing things is never going to be the right answer.
Eventually meat and other products we get from animals will be produced
without the use of animals imo, so one question is whether or not that would be
better, and if so for what. From the animals' position it's a matter of whether
or not life is worth living for each individual. In some cases it is and in some
cases it's not, but you may not be able to get that far with it. Some can't,
even though THAT is the most basic aspect of the whole thing in regards to the
true ethics of it, imo. Since I believe the majority of farmed animals DO have
lives which are of positive value to them, it doesn't seem like an ethical
improvement to do away with them.
>As society
>evolves, this will become more and more evident. At this point in time,
>we are dealing with shitheads that think that gun legislation is some
>sort of violation to them. After we've gotten past the point where we
>are able to act on how wrong it is to shoot Congress people and kill
>children, we will eventually turn to animals and the environment. It's
>inevitable. PETA are thought of as extremists now, even though they
>aren't but then people think gun legislation means "their guns are going
>to be taken from them." It's just ignorance. Even if you mean well,
>you just represent an ignorant point of view. Every time I go into the
>grocery store, the vegetarian items are being bought out faster.
That's worse, not better from my pov. From the pov of someone who
understands and appreciates that millions of animals experience decent lives
because of being raised for food, people who can't appreciate it are ignorant
and slowing things down. My guess is that the true veg*n minded person is one
who has always hated to eat his meat, and when he got a change stopped doing it.
Whether he believed it or not to begin with, he probably at some point begins to
believe there's something positive about it in regards to farm animals. The
truth is that veg*nism does NOTHING to benefit any farm animals, so if someone
wants to contribute to decent lives for livestock with their lifestyle they need
to be a conscientious consumer of animal products, NOT a vegan! At this point
I'd like to encourage everyone reading to buy cage free eggs, even if you don't
eat them, in order to support that far more animal friendly way of raising
laying hens.
>Again, it's inevitable.
It slows things down imo...LOL...but then what can we expect from something
that wants to bring those things to a dead stop? I'd like to see ALL animals
raised for food have lives of positive value, which is the complete opposite of
eliminating them. I'd like to see more animal friendly products in super
markets, instead of ONLY vegetarian crap that doesn't do any animals any good.
>> The difference between animal welfare organizations and eliminationists who hide
>> their true objective behind the gross misnomer "animal rights" IS the animals.
>
>
>This isn't about that.
It sure is to me. What else?
>You know what?
You may mean: what else, so, what else? You? The environment?
>Every time I tell someone that
>I'm a vegetarian they avert their eyes as if they are guilty of
>something. Every time. That's what this is about: guilt.
When you tell them, hand them a copy of this:
� Vegans contribute to the deaths of animals by their use of
wood and paper products, electricity, roads and all types of
buildings, their own diet, etc... just as everyone else does.
What they try to avoid are products which provide life
(and death) for farm animals, but even then they would have
to avoid the following items containing animal by-products
in order to be successful:
tires, paper, upholstery, floor waxes, glass, water
filters, rubber, fertilizer, antifreeze, ceramics, insecticides,
insulation, linoleum, plastic, textiles, blood factors, collagen,
heparin, insulin, solvents, biodegradable detergents, herbicides,
gelatin capsules, adhesive tape, laminated wood products,
plywood, paneling, wallpaper and wallpaper paste, cellophane
wrap and tape, abrasives, steel ball bearings
The meat industry provides life for the animals that it
slaughters, and the animals live and die as a result of it
as animals do in other habitats. They also depend on it for
their lives as animals do in other habitats. If people consume
animal products from animals they think are raised in decent
ways, they will be promoting life for more such animals in the
future. People who want to contribute to decent lives for
livestock with their lifestyle must do it by being conscientious
consumers of animal products, because they can not do it by
being vegan.
From the life and death of a thousand pound grass raised
steer and whatever he happens to kill during his life, people
get over 500 pounds of human consumable meat...that's well
over 500 servings of meat. From a grass raised dairy cow people
get thousands of dairy servings. Due to the influence of farm
machinery, and *icides, and in the case of rice the flooding and
draining of fields, one serving of soy or rice based product is
likely to involve more animal deaths than hundreds of servings
derived from grass raised animals. Grass raised animal products
contribute to fewer wildlife deaths, better wildlife habitat, and
better lives for livestock than soy or rice products. �
>> AW
>
>
>What is AW supposed to mean?
>
>
> means decent lives for billions of domestic animals and the misnomer
>means no
>> domestic animals at all.
>
>
>You're ridiculous. Look up "factory farms" and get back to me. One
>time I was in Moline, IL and I was driving behind a truck full of pigs
>headed for the slaughter house. Pigs are smarter than dogs--they knew
>they were going to die.
They had no idea. How do you think a pig could even find out what death is?
There's no way they can.
>It was one of the most disgusting things I've
>ever experienced. There is nothing ethical or humane about any of that
>shit. Again you are just behind the curve.
If you think pigs know they're going to be killed when they take the truck
ride YOU are not only behing the curve, you're in a universe that doesn't exist.
Here's a basic for you to try to learn: pigs not only don't know they're going
to be killed and eaten by humans, but you couldn't explain it to them if you
spent the rest of your life trying. Could you "teach" it to them? Maybe not. We
raised some pigs for several years and out of each litter at least one or two of
the half grown pigs was killed in the pen with its mother and whatever brothers
and sisters were still around. It never bothered the sow, or any of the other
pigs when their sibling was shot in the head, and then its throat was cut to
bleed it out. Sheep are the only things I've heard different about. I've heard
it a couple of times tha sheep know, but no other animals I've heard of do. Pigs
don't, cows don't, and chickens don't I know fom personaly observation as well
as discussions with other people.
> So what are eliminationists good for? For wildlife?
>
>
>I have no idea what an "eliminationist" is, but I doubt it means much in
>the grand scheme of things.
That's the name I use for people who hide behind the gross misnomer "animal
rights" since they certainly don't want rights or anything else for domestic
animals. They do want the elimination of domestic animals though...so....
>If it helps get you through the night, it's
>alright as John Lennon said.
>
>
>> Only if you don't have confidence in forestry services having better opinions
>> about hunting regulations than people who want to see the complete elimination
>> of domestic animals, and who ignorantly can't comprehend any benefits to human
>> hunting.
>
>
>You lost me--I don't see any connection between hunting and domestic
>animals.
The same people who ignorantly from most people's pov want to do away with
all human hunting, are the same people who want to eliminate domestic animals.
They're the same people who commit terrorist acts as well.
>>> It's an acronym--you can look it up.
>>
>> What they want people to mistakenly believe is that they want to encourage
>> the ethical treatment of all animals including domestic animals, and they tell
>> us it means: people for the ethical treatment of animals. But! Notice that PeTA
>> uses the lower case e. That might be a weird coincidence because it's hard to
>> believe they would be honest enough to do it deliberately as a reminder that
>> they do NOT!!! want to provide ethical treatment for domestic animals.
>
>You've officially gone off the deep end. With small "e's".
>Never post something on the internet unless you have a point of
>reference. You will look like a moron otherwise.
What do you think you're trying to talk about? I don't go PeTA's direction
often, but every time I have they've used a small e. If they quit doing that's
just dishonesty from their direction, but I sure HOPE it's because people are
catching on to the distinction between AW and elimination. Even if they did
slimely stop writing it that way I believe I'll continue. Nope I checked and
they're still doing it. You don't know much about this apparently.