BS: Killing Animals

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 11:13 AM

Did anyone listen to "Farming Today" on BBC Radio 4 at 6.30AM this morning, someone was moaning that lambs are killed by having their throats cut, [note they are stunned first].
So how did they think they were killed then, by been tickled to death?

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 11:14 AM

if anyone is intrested, you can hear farming today again on the bbc radio 4 website.

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: GUEST,CJ
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 11:21 AM

"...he has a wonderful sense of humour!"

He must have to have made his living from killing innocent animals. His misspelled posts are a riot too. He's a regular chuckle brother.

Best wishes,

CJ

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: GUEST,Gunboy
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 11:32 AM

I believe when you kill an animal the first thing to worry about is doing it as cheap as you can. I remember back on the farm when we got overrun with cats the city folk dropped off, I used to tie the tails of 3 or 4 cats together and hang them over a barb wire fence so I could get the whole bunch with only one shot.

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: GUEST,CJ
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 11:38 AM

Hey, Gunboy - I bet you married your sister and play a mean version of Dueling Banjos.

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 11:45 AM

"The only good animal is a cooked animal!"

The only good folk singer is a dumb folk singer!

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 12:47 PM

If you're going to eat anything, cooked or raw, plant or animal, it's gonna be dead.

Get used to it.

(As for those that eat only fruit that falls naturally from a tree -- that's nature's way of trying to reproduce, and they're eating the unborn. And CJ -- it could be only you that's laughing at, you know.)

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 03:27 PM

"If you're going to eat anything, cooked or raw, plant or animal, it's gonna be dead."

You don't say!! I didn't realise folkies were so philosophical.


"As for those that eat only fruit that falls naturally from a tree -- that's nature's way of trying to reproduce, and they're eating the unborn."

Oh the bastards! *sob*

"And CJ -- it could be only you that's laughing at, you know."

I doubt it.

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 07:56 PM

The very idea of a dumb folksinger is a contradiction in terms. You must vocalize in order to sing. :-)

You have mouthed the corporate ethic in a nutshell, Gunboy. While destroying anything natural, the vital thing is to do it as CHEAPLY as possible. And that's why your job is being exported to China or the Phillipines or Mexico! :-) Have fun flipping burgers at Burger King.

"If you're going to eat anything, it's going to be dead." NOT TRUE!!! You can easily eat small live fish and other small live animals or insects, and plants and fruits that are technically still alive at the time you eat them. You even get more chi (life force) out of them by so doing. The reason most people don't eat live animals is because they're too squeamish (the people, I mean). They don't mind the killing as long as it's done by someone else where they can't see it happening. Denial, denial, denial. It goes like that with war too..."let someone else do it".

Very few of today's consumers would eat meat if they were required to kill the animal and butcher it...but if they lived in a survival mode out in nature for a bit they would soon learn how to deal with that, and then their meat would be honestly earned and consumed, probably with a far greater measure of respect.

The motto of present North American society is this: "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death"

In the long run you die anyway, but do you do it with dignity? It's not easy when your life has been little but self-indulgence, conspicuous consumption, and denial.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 08:53 PM

LH, it might be living when it goes into your mouth, but after you've eaten it it's dead -- especially if you chew your food. And I (and I suspect you) have no desire to participate in the Manchu-Han Complete Banquet.

LH, I wish I were as certain of everything as our Guests here at the Cafe are. Perhaps it's my upbringing, having been taught politeness and all, that prevents me from being offensive when I'm a guest somewhere.

In any case, I'm outa this thread. PM me if you want to discuss this further

Subject: RE: BS: Killing Animals
From: Amos
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 09:07 PM

Yoghurt is full of living organisms, which is why it's a good idea to take it when on a course of antibiotics -- it restores intenstinal flora needed for digestion. Or so I am told.

And Rapaire -- feeding them emotional reactions (a weakness of mine) often just makes them stronger!

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