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

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (21610)	5/15/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think if you eat meat you have to come to terms with the idea that a more evolved lifeform could reasonably come along and eat us using the rationale we use on other animals. As long as that is OK with you I think you are ethically entitled to eat anything you want. Hey, you can cook and eat your neighbors as long as you are willing to accept the consequences- probably some pretty heavy jail time if you are caught. I don't advocate this of course, and it wouldn't fit into my ethical system, because I try not to do unto others what I don't want done to me, but rationally I see very little difference between higher animals and people, so I would have to say that cannibalism doesn't seem all that different to me from eating a dolphin.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (21610)	5/15/1998 6:43:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Thank the Lord it will be fifty years for a simulated T-bone. Dang but I like my beef. Surprised you never brought up Switzerland in the gunless Europe thing.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (21610)	5/17/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Alex, I just read an article about apes which is very interesting in relation to the question of eating animals. They share a brain feature thought to make humans unique: search.washingtonpost.com All of us who have pets certainly wouldn't eat that species, because we know they are capable of fairly complex feelings and rational thought patterns as well, including PLANNING things. Few Americans eat apes, but certainly lots of people in other countries do. I think that if we hung out with cows and pigs we might see the same qualities in them. When you combine all of that with the damage growing grain to feed animals causes to the earth, I just thought it was something to ponder. The issue of Luddite-type behavior is complex. I am not aware of any environmentalist-type campaigns that I would really consider being Luddite-like. Do you have some examples?