Animal rights, veganism and PETA

[Autumnlicious]

So I came across this writeup today amid the comments section of the Friendly Atheist:

So when we left off, PETA was so ferociously anti-cruelty that they had stopped paying any attention to what that actually means. Here's a few basic points that I started to touch on last time.

1. If you want to keep animals from suffering, you first have to define "suffering," and that has not been done. You have to distinguish whether we're talking about mental anguish, sadness, stress, fear, and the like, or whether it's physical pain that's more the issue. Or maybe it's environmental or incidental impact; we can all agree that a tree doesn't feel pain (I hope), but cutting it down affects other creatures and maybe that's the problem. These are important definitions that need to be laid out, and no one's doing it.

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REF: http://unreasonablydangerousonionrings.b...holic.html


One thing I want to know is, what are your stances on eating animals and why?