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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (95719)	2/8/2005 12:58:05 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Well, thank you for taking the time to read the article, Ionesco. I doubt that anyone else did, actually, although I hope I'm wrong about that. I was really amazed that an advisor to Bush has written a book about the horrors of factory farming and the way we treat animals in America, because the Bush administration seems to be very supportive of cruel agricultural practices in general. I wonder how Martin Scully fits in with that? I was also just horrified that a cow whose calf had died at birth and was badly injured herself would crawl across a huge distance looking for her own mother, and then spend time with her, being comforted in her grief. These animals are kindred spirits, mammals, way too connected to us for us to justify the way we treat them, for us to eat them or drink the milk that they produce in agony. I really liked this passage from Scully, the Bush advisor/author: So where does this leave a gluttonous, meat-eating Western world? Nowhere good, according to Matthew Scully, a special assistant and senior speech writer for President George W. Bush. In his book, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals the Call to Mercy, Scully writes: Many people, when they examine their beliefs about animals, will find I think, that they hold radically contradictory views, allowing for benevolence one moment, and disregard the next. And the reality is, that we have a choice of one or the other. As a matter of conscience, however, we must ask ourselves which outlook is truer, which is closer to our heart, which attitudes leaves us feeling better and worthier when we act upon it, and then follow that conviction where it leads. And when we fail to act consistently with our own moral principles, when we profess one thing and do another, we must be willing to call that error by its name. It is hypocrisy.