What you say makes a lot of sense and I agree with 95% of it.
I think PETA can be radical. I agree that we should use animals for drug testing and not for cosmetics. I think PETA is stupid for there stance on that and other things.
As you may know, I am a vegetarian, but I am about as non "preachy" vegetarian as you will ever meet. I don't ask people for special accomodations and I am completely respectful of the choices people make in terms of what they eat.
I definitley agree with you on humane slaughter conditions. It's better to try and work to make sure the animals that people do eat are treated humanely and not slaughtered in cruel ways. That's a much better approach then pressuring everyone into becoming vegetarians.
And you are also 100% right on the domestic animals. We did change them over thousands of years of breeding. Some PETA nutcases say that milking a cow is "raping her." That's so stupid. If you don't milk a domestic cow, it gets sick because we bred it to produce more milk than its offspring can drink normall.y.
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Date: 2005-11-15 09:10 am (UTC)I think PETA can be radical. I agree that we should use animals for drug testing and not for cosmetics. I think PETA is stupid for there stance on that and other things.
As you may know, I am a vegetarian, but I am about as non "preachy" vegetarian as you will ever meet. I don't ask people for special accomodations and I am completely respectful of the choices people make in terms of what they eat.
I definitley agree with you on humane slaughter conditions. It's better to try and work to make sure the animals that people do eat are treated humanely and not slaughtered in cruel ways. That's a much better approach then pressuring everyone into becoming vegetarians.
And you are also 100% right on the domestic animals. We did change them over thousands of years of breeding. Some PETA nutcases say that milking a cow is "raping her." That's so stupid. If you don't milk a domestic cow, it gets sick because we bred it to produce more milk than its offspring can drink normall.y.