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Post by phil on Sept 9, 2006 11:15:28 GMT -5
 Not as cute as little pup seals but close enough ... How dare we allow ourselves to eat their mothers !! |
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Post by Ryosuke on Sept 9, 2006 11:32:35 GMT -5
These creatures are pretty cute too, but that doesn't stop us from eating them, does it?!  |
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Post by phil on Sept 9, 2006 11:36:46 GMT -5
Since they don't "talk", they don't stand a chance !!
If only people could hear the cry of the carrot
when it's brutaly yanked from the warm embrace of Mother Earth ... !!
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Post by Galactus on Sept 9, 2006 11:47:18 GMT -5
These creatures are pretty cute too, but that doesn't stop us from eating them, does it?! I was joking with the cute thing, though I see no reason you can't treat an animal humanely even though you intend to eat it. |
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Post by Galactus on Sept 9, 2006 11:47:47 GMT -5
Btw...what the hell are those?
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Post by phil on Sept 9, 2006 11:50:56 GMT -5
Sea urchins ... I think !
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Post by Ryosuke on Sept 9, 2006 12:05:01 GMT -5
They make fine sushi.
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Post by phil on Sept 9, 2006 12:09:20 GMT -5
Best scallops I ever had was on a fishing boat,
straight from their shelves to my mouth
with only a few drops of lemon juice ...
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Post by Ryosuke on Sept 9, 2006 12:10:32 GMT -5
This creature's pretty cute too, but that doesn't stop us from eating him, does it?!  |
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Post by Ryosuke on Sept 9, 2006 12:11:12 GMT -5
I actually wanted do that with Phil's pic, not Rocky's but I couldn't find it.
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Post by Kensterberg on Sept 9, 2006 12:18:46 GMT -5
This creature's pretty cute too, but that doesn't stop us from eating him, does it?! Just speaking for myself ... there's no way in hell I'm eating Rocky. |
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Post by Ryosuke on Sept 9, 2006 12:19:10 GMT -5
Because he's cute?
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Post by Kensterberg on Sept 9, 2006 12:20:52 GMT -5
Not as cute as little pup seals but close enough ... How dare we allow ourselves to eat their mothers !! If pigs weren't meant to be eaten, then God wouldn't have made 'em so damn tasty. That's what my Great Dane (German Boarhound) tells me, anyway. And who am I to argue with him?  |
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Post by phil on Sept 9, 2006 12:26:25 GMT -5
HÉ ! We've already eaten Scottsy if I remember correctly ... !
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Post by Mary on Sept 9, 2006 12:27:46 GMT -5
Erm, just in case it isn't totally obvious, I was absolutely joking when I said we shouldn't eat duck because ducks are cute. Of course, the cuteness of an animal has absolutely no relevance to the ethics of eating it.
...except in the case of Rocky Sigman, that is. When you're talking about such off-the-scale cuteness, well, all ordinary ethical systems cease to apply.
Aaaaaanyway, I had actually originally written a lengthy post with nearly the exact same content as tuneschick's, but then deleted it, because I was concerned everyone else had moved on from this topic and I was behind. But, apparently not, in which case, I just want to say "amen" to tunes' post, and I want to point something else out...
Many years ago, I mentioned on Random Top 10 a conversation I had with my Spanish boyfriend at the time about the practice of bullfighting. He said that he found it a little frustrating when Americans and other non-spanish Europeans unilaterally condemend bullfighting and became completely morally outraged about it, when many of these people ate factory-farmed meat. Although he could very well see the objections to bullfighting, he couldn't understand an ethical system in which bullfighting was obviously far more morally objectionable than factory-farming - in fact, to him, it seemed much less morally objectionable because of simple math - the level of death and destruction in factory farms vastly outnumbers the number of bulls killed in bullfighting. I was persuaded by his argument that there was a kind of cultural hypocrisy here - but when I posted to that effect on Random Top 10, it was Phil who rushed to disdain the argument and point out the horrific and unjustifiable cruelty of bullfighting.
Well I must confess I'm at a loss to comprehend why force-feeding ducks is an unobjectionable "tradition" but bullfighting is a moral atrocity. Or why it's a waste of time and priorities to speak out against foie gras but not bullfighting.
.....as for horse meat, dog meat, and all the rest of it - it's no more or less morally objectionable than eating any other meat.
Cheers,
M
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