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El Rucio
Hartland, VT
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El commented on the article |The issue, of course, is whether it indeed benefits our children and world, whether it is deserving of the sacrifice demanded.
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El commented on the article |How many houses does Al Gore have now? He just bought another one in Montecito, CA: 6,500 square feet. His own carbon footprint is appalling (and buying "offsets" does not change it). Rather than set an example (like, say, Ed Begley Jr), he seems to be mocking everyone who has hearkened to his work. There is also the suspicion that his carbon warnings are in service to the nuclear industry. In any case, he is involved in many ventures that profit hugely from the drive to reduce carbon emissions. Thus, he can hardly be called a neutral observer, and that "cashing in" leaves a foul taste.
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El commented on the article |Yes, Singer's compassion is inspiring. His frank portrayals of butchering are sickening. As the IVU page notes, Patterson's title comes from a Singer story: "for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka".
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El commented on the article |Hear, hear !
(We live with two "retired" greyhounds -- beautiful, loving, regal animals.)
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El commented on the article |Geez, Glenn, Lisa was simply applying Cole's own argument to show how absurd it was.
Also, you must know that humans do not need to eat animal corpses to survive. That is not a question, that is a fact.
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El commented on the article |
There was an apt letter in yesterday's New York Times Magazine (of all places!):
"The account of the couple who gave up the suburban lifestyle and became farmers of organically raised livestock is troubling (Food: Field Report, by Christine Muhlke). There’s something just plain wrong with killing animals after treating them to a lovely and very short life. Is it better than killing them in horrific slaughter facilities after even shorter, truly miserable lives? Of course it is. But that doesn’t make it right or compassionate or decent.
"Those of us who spend time with chickens and pigs know that each has a personality and a rich emotional life, complete with humor, love, fears and worries. Dealing out death to those who cannot defend themselves, who are young and healthy, and who love life as we all do, can’t be justified by fulfilling the human desire for a tastier bit of dead flesh, which is the solid manifestation of the terror and death pain of those who trusted their caretakers to treat them well."
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El commented on the article |
The issue of this post is not about wild animals or mistreated farm animals. Nor is it about the broad spectrum of compromises and limits and weaknesses we must all navigate. It is about killing well treated, trusting, even loved and loving, young healthy animals and calling that "compassionate" or "rescue".
It is not surprising that you feel put upon trying to defend that, that you have to lash out at made-up caricatures of everyone else on this forum and what they say, that your rationalizations become ever more complex, contradictory, and meaningless.
What else could you do?
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El commented on the article |
But it's not neutral, is it? Friend decides that after a year it's time to kill her "rescues" and eat them.
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