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are vegetarians more ethical by not eating meat?
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 (May 23, 2013 at 9:44 am)littleendian Wrote: I'm trying to imagine being in your shoes, seeing my mom butcher a calf when I was a kid... I suspect it would've fundamentally affected many aspects of my personal development... I would find any thoughts you might want to share on this highly fascinating No one was traumatized AFAIK. It was part of life, no more than turning the TV on.  
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Are you a country boy or a city slicker littleIndian?
LastPoet
 Leader of the gang of jerkoffs(tm)  Religious Views: L'Uomo verrà portato dalla sua creazione
My mom gave me a rabbit when I was 6, she told me, "You like stewed rabbit? Work for it! Grab its legs and smack it on the head." So I did and a nice stew it was.
 (May 23, 2013 at 11:46 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Are you a country boy or a city slicker littleIndian?I'd categorize myself as more of a city slicker than a country boy for sure. However, I did grow up in a small town with plenty of cow pastures and also many pets in the household around. I've never experience slaughter or any practical aspects of large or small scale animal farming first hand. Probably that's where my squeamishness comes from. Come to think of it, there is this anecdote from my brother who used to play in a band. One time they had a deal with this farmer, they could practice in one of his barns or another and they would clean out the chicken "sheds" for him in return. In the front, the farmer had some chickens walking around in the field to please the city-slickers who came out of the city for some country life during the weekend and have some free-range eggs and coffee (or I don't know what), but in the back he had the worst kind of chicken battery operation going, all hidden. Probably that's part of the reason I've grown so incredibly distrustful of people when it comes to animals. I apologize for being a dick about it sometimes, it really gets to me.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe RE: are vegetarians more ethical by not eating meat?
May 23, 2013 at 1:39 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2013 at 1:59 pm by fr0d0.)
Explains a lot poet you sicko
Hey no problem littleendian. I quite like your opinion here. Have you heard much of Peter Stringer? Someone posted an interview with Richard Dawkins. Great bloke. /edit Sorry, Peter Singer. thread is here: http://atheistforums.org/thread-1320.htm...er+dawkins Love that interview. /editedit Damn video removed. Here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xxdMUuZXUY Hope you can see it 
We did a report on him in a philosophy class. That's why I posted to OP actually. Singer that is.
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