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monster
Location: Sugarland, TX / Minneapolis MN Gender: Female Total Likes: 5 likes
I am the thing that goes bump in the night
| | | Re: Fur coats and fur boots: the stupidity of the human race. < Reply # 21 on 2/1/2008 2:13 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| Lexi
Location: Oslo, Norway Gender: Female Total Likes: 12 likes
I'm getting old.
| | | Re: Fur coats and fur boots: the stupidity of the human race. < Reply # 29 on 2/1/2008 8:46 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | We eat cows, fish, chicken, etc. because we're superior. We are (for the most part) at the top of the food chain. Do you think sharks care how much pain we're in when they take a bite? Absolutely not. To quote my God, Maddox: "For every animal you don't eat, I'll eat three." I mean, that's cool if you don't eat meat or wear fur, but the rest of us are no lesser because we do. (And for the record, I love animals, but they also happen to be tasty beside my veggies and carbs.)
| [15:00:33] <SeeThirty> cause you're not likely to be anywhere that other people haven't been who didn't have protection [15:00:41] <SeeThirty> still better safe than lexi |
| vicexsquad
Location: Oshawa, Ontario Gender: Female Total Likes: 1 like
Explorer / Pediatric Nurse / Axe thrower / Bowler
| | | Re: Fur coats and fur boots: the stupidity of the human race. < Reply # 32 on 2/1/2008 9:41 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My husband used to work catching chickens back in the day, and he would tell me stories about how on some farms, on average, 10 chickens are stuck in one tiny cage left to fight and compete for food. On other farms, each chicken has their own cage, and the cage is usually the size of a laptop computer (length and width wise). Sometimes chickens would die and rot in a cage and be left there with the other living chickens. When the chicken catchers went about catching the chickens, the chickens would be let loose in a dark barn-like building and then all the catchers would just go around grabbing them by the legs. Grabbing chickens by the legs almost immediately breaks their legs. So imagine being stuck in a a cage the length and width of a laptop, not being able to walk around, spread their wings, etc. That's sad. Luckily, the Humane Society in the states has began a campaign getting farm owners to stop using these small cages to house chickens and instead, let all the chickens roam free in an open barn.
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| Shael
Location: Witherbee, NY. Gender: Female Total Likes: 7 likes
Baaaaah.
| | | Re: Fur coats and fur boots: the stupidity of the human race. < Reply # 36 on 2/2/2008 4:23 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | In some countries the animals they make fur out of are used for dogfood and often people food. Primarily rabbits, but minks and other rodents are as well. Especially in some of the third world countries. It doesn't bother me to wear fur because in a good many of the cases, something or someone is eating the remains. My whole issue with PETA is the euthanization of animals "for their own good" when there's nothing wrong with the animal in the first place...and what, pray tell, does PETA do with the carcasses? They stick them in a 10,000 square foot freezer because they don't want people finding them in their garbage. Now, for an organization that preaches animal rights...this bothers the fuck out of me. They're no better than the local state or county run/funded animal shelters...which they try to distance themselves from. The whole terrorism thing just makes my blood run cold. PETA had two known "terrorists" who were known for destroying medical testing facilities on their fucking payroll. Both of these gentlemen were also employed by PETA as spokesmen and allowed to go into schools around the country preaching for the PETA cause. Now who's kidding who here? I'm all for treating animals ethically and not doing them any harm unless something good can come of it, specifically something to advance human kind or animal kind, in the ideal of medicine that is, but these people are just plain crazy. Animals are not anthropomorphic, they have intelligence and cognition, but we don't know for sure if they even think other than instinct. I know, this is an argument for another time, but we've anthropomorphisized them so much that we think of the cute and fuzzy bunny of having feelings other than the need to eat, breed and shit. Anyway, that's my rant for the day. Oh, one more thing...do you know how they normally kill cattle? Well, at least they used to do it this way. They have a device, it's basically a metal pole inside of a metal pole...into the end of it, they put a shotgun shell..they push the inner pole towards the shell and detonate it up against the head of a cow and basically it's a gunshot without all the noise and the click of the cocking of the hammer of the shotgun because the noise causes the animals to tense up and the meat to become tough. I grew up on a farm, until my father died. We had pigs, cattle and sheep. I remember that one device, it wasn't pretty, but it did the job. We ate a lot of home raised pork and beef, my parent's weren't much on lamb or mutton, so we just sheared those for extra cash. Shael
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