Posted by Gabbix2 on November 27, 2004, at 7:28:29
In reply to Re: Fattening Chickens and Egg Laying » alexandra_k, posted by AdaGrace on November 27, 2004, at 6:59:12
> #5. However, there is no humane way to kill an animal. Killing is killing. IF you are against that then I don't blame you for not eating meat.
Killing is *not* killing. Would it be for you?
Don't people take their pets to the veterinarian to be euthanized because it's a "humane" way to kill them?
Death may be death, but there are certainly different levels of cruelty involved in killing. Killing an animal quickly after it's been raised (or allowed to live) in a humane way is much different than a lifetime of misery only to be hung by the feet and bled, or suffocation (however long that takes) after being tossed on a conveyer belt and thrown into a garbage bag on top of hundreds of others (as is the case for unwanted male chicks on the factory farm.)
I won't get into the lives and deaths of other factory raised animals because it's too gruesome but I cannot put a painful, sloppy killing after a miserable life in the same category as a quick death, after a comfortable one and I can't fathom how anyone could.
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