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**pavlik** · 01-06-2011, 10:48 PM

Its not that the potato suffers, but that you are killing it regardless

We all need to eat. Then comes what we choose: the potato or the cow. If we choose the cow I'm sure that the cow will suffer much more that the potato. We can choose. Animals do not.

In others, cattle, etc. is rounded up into big rooms and gassed "harmlessly" (supposedly feeling no pain, suffering, or awareness that they are being killed).

The slaughter house I needed to visit was for meat exportation. It had many sophisticated means to kill... however, and I know it sounds ridiculous, I could feel and see the fear of that animals in their eyes and the way they show stress before killing them. I am not a cow to tell what it feels to be killed in a gas chamber but I think it would not be a very nice experience. About meat eating there are two issues to be considered: The first is that people eat meat because they like; meat is not needed in a healthy diet. The second is that not eating meat is a very personal choice. I am not trying to change minds about this but just to expouse why I give up eating meat.

So can it be said that some forms of meat more humanely 'obtained' is more acceptable than others?

Of course, if it is about killing, some means seem more acceptable than others but IMO any chosen mean leads to some amount of unnecessary suffering. The reflection here is that meat is not needed in our diet.

01-06-2011, 10:48 PM	#27
pavlik Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	Its not that the potato suffers, but that you are killing it regardless We all need to eat. Then comes what we choose: the potato or the cow. If we choose the cow I'm sure that the cow will suffer much more that the potato. We can choose. Animals do not. In others, cattle, etc. is rounded up into big rooms and gassed "harmlessly" (supposedly feeling no pain, suffering, or awareness that they are being killed). The slaughter house I needed to visit was for meat exportation. It had many sophisticated means to kill... however, and I know it sounds ridiculous, I could feel and see the fear of that animals in their eyes and the way they show stress before killing them. I am not a cow to tell what it feels to be killed in a gas chamber but I think it would not be a very nice experience. About meat eating there are two issues to be considered: The first is that people eat meat because they like; meat is not needed in a healthy diet. The second is that not eating meat is a very personal choice. I am not trying to change minds about this but just to expouse why I give up eating meat. So can it be said that some forms of meat more humanely 'obtained' is more acceptable than others? Of course, if it is about killing, some means seem more acceptable than others but IMO any chosen mean leads to some amount of unnecessary suffering. The reflection here is that meat is not needed in our diet.
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