A slaughterhouse across the street (memorial for the poor lost souls...)

[king2005]

popcornbird, I can see your point, and I would never blame anyone for eating meat. I know that mankind has always done that, but I think I could accept this better if men were still hunters, as they were in ancient times. To breed animals only as "meat products", to never give them a chance for a dignified life is a cruel and unnatural act IMO.

The reason a lot of people don't hunter anymore, is because of all the animal lovers or veggie eatters attacking them about how bad it is to hunt... hunters have to jump through so many retarded hoops, that its not worth it anymore... Now look at the derr population,, its out of control & thousands are getting hit by cars & starving to death.. I have gone hunting(never got anything) & fishing.. but its not easy hunting when being bashed.

My sister, who is also a veggie, made an interesting statement the other day. She said anyone who is eating meat should once in his life slaughter a living animal, and eat it. That way, they would learn what it really means. It's so much different from buying the nice looking packages in the supermarket which don't have much in common with the living being they once were.

I've never eatten my kills, but I have cooked them for others(I'm talking about fish)... When I bred rats for a healthy diet for my rat eatting pets, I killed many of them.. When my pets were babies, I had to prepare the rats/mice, as they were too large.. its was gross, but my animals had to eat.

I know that people will always eat meat, and there will always be such things as slaughterhouses, but it's hard for me to see one in front of my very nose. I always had a deep love and sympathy for animals, and it is hard for me to see any harm being done to them. This morning, when I drove to work, I got teary -eyed over a road kill, a beautiful raccoon lying on the street, with his mouth wide open from his last cry of pain... I cannot stand things like that.

Neither can I.. I & many other people almost cried over a young deer that was hit 2 cars ahead of us.. we stopped to see if the other car was ok... we watched the deer squirm on the road while gurgling blood.. THAT is why we support hunting so bad.

But again, even though I made the personal decision for myself not to eat any more meat, I wouldn't blame anyone for doing so, and even I do not stick to my own principles when it comes to my cats! For them, I buy meat in cans!

In fact, I often wonder if it's ethically correct for a veggie to have carnivore pets... But I can't help it, I just love cats too much!

Kirsten

Your the type of veggie I have total respect for, you don't push your ways onto others, & you don't hate meat eaters like me.