(May 19, 2013 at 12:40 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: If the cow is killed, I'll eat his meat so he didn't die in vain.
Anyways, the question is about suffering, as far as I can see it being an issue. Now, does a free range animal, restricted by a border of fences suffer? I think not.
I often view vegetarians as unrealistic idealists, who don't see that life consumes life - it's just how it is - we can lessen suffering sure, but do not let it delude ourselves about it by playing the morality card. We simply do not know if a free range animal suffers more than we do in our own daily lives, nor do I think it's even remotely reasonable to extrapolate our view of suffering unto an animal with a completely different view and experience of reality. Hell, if we can remove their experience of suffering out of the equation, I don't see why we could treat them carelessly; they wouldn't mind.
For me, I'll give Bessie an affordable and comfortable life for a couple of years, and then kill Bessie with a boltgun and consume its delicious flesh as a steak.
Where I come from we eat sheep and slaughter them, but that seems to change anyways, ourselves and then we hang the meat up to dry or cook it or whatever. I have no deceptive view about this - I can see that they probably are afraid in their last moments in life before they are shot in the head with a boltgun. But before that they roamed freely in the Faroese mountains doing what they do best, eat grass and shit all over the place.
