Animal Person
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
The voices of Jim Vandersluis and Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary were especially poignant, and the anguish in their faces--in their eyes--jumps off the screen as they explain how and when it hit them that the business of raising goats for milk requires surrendering the babies to be slaughtered. For all of us.
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. Of course, what they are talking about and how they are changing their behavior is very frustrating for someone who doesn't believe we should be using animals at all. There are few animal rights stories in the news. People are talking. And acting.
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Animal Person
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? This is where I'm confused. That action is to opt out and go vegan.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
And of course if you correct someone and say "Dead Turkey Day," you're "buzzkill," or imposing your beliefs or being judgmental. So I might say, "I fail to find humor in the enslavement, rape, torture and slaughter of anyone. I don't know, maybe 20 years of experience. I'd rather make my point and end things.
Animal Person
JANUARY 23, 2010
Cain=farmer=evil murderer; Abel=slaughtered animals=victim/good son. Of course, she teaches Jake the prayer that makes killing the animal all better. The fact remains, however, that if you don't need to kill anyone to survive, no amount of storytelling and mythmaking (or myth borrowing/co-opting) around that slaughter excuses it.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Of course, the world outside of our home tells a different story. The conclusion I'm left making is that the person saying "Because it tastes good" thinks that it's funny that a sentient being was raped (in the case of cows), mutilated (chickens, pigs and others) and slaughtered (everyone) because people find them tasty.
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