(January 18, 2014 at 11:27 pm)Aractus Wrote: Actually Kichi from experience it's not the vegetarians that are so overbearing as much as the vegans. I know a vegetarian - hasn't eaten meat since he was like 10 or 11 or something (he's 50) - says he doesn't eat meat because he "has a conscious", his car has leather seats (because he loves leather like most people), he readily cooks chicken for his kids, and he doesn't seem to bother people about their choice to eat meat.
I remember the last time we had this discussion somebody posted a video of mulesing claiming it was cruel beyond belief - I'd never seen it before but it didn't look that bad, I mean it's not as if they're breaking bones or causing long-lasting pain to the animals. The idea that animals mustn't be allowed to experience any pain or discomfort is IMHO pretty darn silly. For the most part they get to have happy pain and stress free lives, free from predators and disease.
Hence the Some Danniel. On the whole I understand that most people will live their lifestyles as they choose not wishing to inflict it on any one nor passing moral judgement on anyone else. Many religious are of this ilk .... thankfully.
It is unfortunate that there are those so eager to pass judgement and vilify others for choices that harm none.
Was just wondering if these so called animal activists/ welfare lobbyists have truly thought through their desires to have "all animals running freely" .... It could be posited that these "activists/ people of vocal conscience" are nothing more than environmental terrorists hell bent of destroying the land.
Consider the free deer, goats, dogs, cats, pigs, cows, horses, buffalo, camels, foxes, birds, rabbits.... None of them native to Australia all of them destructive disease carrying death for our native animals and our flora. But hey, Bambi gets to destroy our land so some fool can claim moral superiority
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