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

To: JeffA who wrote (102356)	4/28/2005 4:08:32 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I accept that you do not agree with me about the way animals are treated, and whether we should eat them. I am not asking you, or anyone else, to change their minds about that. When you say you are not to the point where you agree with me that factory farming and eating animals is abuse, would you ever be willing to look at these questions freshly, sort of putting your cultural considerations and the frame of mind you have now aside to ponder new information? What I do hope is that the people who read Feelies are open-minded enough to consider new research about how intelligent and sensitive animals are--to actually read the articles I post and mull them over. The world changes all the time. We don't use dogs like machines to run mills the way we did in the nineteenth century, for example. As awareness grows, times change. There are all sorts of ways to minimize animals suffering even if some of us do decide to continue to eat them. Our farming processes are so inhumane that the reaction to them has been the rise of the animal rights movement. Not too many people had such serious objections throughout most of history, when farm animals and wild animals that we killed for food had normal animal lives of relative freedom until their very last moments. The price of meat is artificially low because of factory farming. It does not reflect the suffering of the animals or the horrible environmental degradation that goes into it. The more meat we eat, the higher our cancer and heart disease rates are, as well. So the whole meat thing is kind of rotten right now, and I predict the animal rights activists will at least win significant victories eventually in the way animals are treated before we eat them. Did you know that chickens could be humanely gassed to death, instead of being scalded fully conscious? That is what PETA is campaigning for in its boycott of KFC. Do you think that is so unreasonable? Do you believe as a person that in general you should be fully aware of what you do and the effects you have on the world around you? Given that you do eat chickens, do you think it is reasonable that, given your conviction this is a right thing to do, you could watch a video about what the chickens you eat experience? Or are you one of the Feelies posters with a totally closed mind? I don't care if people who hang out here have those totally closed minds, but it would be refreshing if more of them would be candid about it. So, did you watch this video? Or would you? I'm not trying to put you in particular on the spot, Jeff. It is just kind of frustrating to me that so many people who are so intelligent and well read and mostly well educated have such huge blocks that they will only entertain new information when they feel comfortable. I think pushing comfort zones is a healthy thing to do, and leads to growth and all sorts of other interesting things. And certainly, if your growing awareness of how factory farmed animals are treated did come to disturb you, you could instead eat free range meat, which would be less cruel and still have you enjoying your favorite foods. kentuckyfriedcruelty.com