2010-02-15
“Animals suffer!”
Let me caricaturize this phrase a bit to make more obvious what is meant:
Animals suffer! Your ham had feelings once! And your leather jacket too! Not to mention that cute little baby-cow that has been brutally torn away from it′s loving mummy and then been butchered just that mummy can be milked for another period of time, and what is all this for? Just that YOU can kick a yoghurt between your teeth, you bad badie you! Do you want to be held responsible for all this suffering? Do you? Do you enjoy the image of suffering animals? Do you want animals to suffer?
Of course you don′t. Nobody does. And this is why
Which cow has a better life? The one in a stable or the one out in the wild? The one in the stable is well fed, looked after, gets a threatment when ill, and then, when its time has come, and without ever having to suffer old age, it will be brought into a place it has never been before, and seconds later
A wild cow on the other hand lives in constant fear. It lives in fear of starvation, has to move when the grazing lands are all consumed, and must be aware of its deadly enemies with claws and teeth that are living out there in the dark, waiting for their chance to hunt them down and eat them alive.
It may be true that certain aspects of stock farming could be improved. But it is naïve to think that wild animals necessarily have a better life then the ones kept by humans.
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