I agree with Kyu on this matter. There is never an excuse to be inhumane to other animals... even if you will eventually be eating them, or skinning them... they are alive now... and they should be treated like kings for that time they live.
We in fact do not need meat from animals (except in some rare circumstances), and our world would be better fed on a mostly-vegan diet (less starvation). I don't think i could handle not having some things though (Cheese for pizza for instance)... but that isn't killing (or as far as i'm aware, hurting) anyone (except by osteoporoses and a few other things, which with moderation you don't get anyway).
However, why even kill other animals for food or skinning... and not give them proper burials when they die... when we don't eat the usable materials of dead humans (esp. ones in their prime)... and we give most of them proper burials. Seems hypocritical to me... because all of the important parts about why not torture and kill apply to humans just as so to other mammals, many reptiles, and whatnot.
We in fact do not need meat from animals (except in some rare circumstances), and our world would be better fed on a mostly-vegan diet (less starvation). I don't think i could handle not having some things though (Cheese for pizza for instance)... but that isn't killing (or as far as i'm aware, hurting) anyone (except by osteoporoses and a few other things, which with moderation you don't get anyway).
However, why even kill other animals for food or skinning... and not give them proper burials when they die... when we don't eat the usable materials of dead humans (esp. ones in their prime)... and we give most of them proper burials. Seems hypocritical to me... because all of the important parts about why not torture and kill apply to humans just as so to other mammals, many reptiles, and whatnot.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
