In Reply to: Why we should have no qualms eating cows posted by C on November 09, 1996 at 03:01:55:
>Since the beginning of time, humanity has eaten meat.>Nowadays, many say that our level of inactivity means meat is
>dangerous and we should stop eating it.ItÆs not that the meat itself is so dangerous, itÆs that thereÆs more in
there than meats the eye. Our caveman ancestors didnÆt have to worry
about a man in a lab coat sneaking in and injecting his mastodon with
hormones, antibiotics, and other chemicals. The caveman didnÆt have
to worry what kind of unnatural things had been done to his meat.Sound far-fetched? Do some research.
>(snip)à- cattle, sheep and poultry farmers can no longer take their
>produce to the slaughterhouse to be turned into our meat products.
>- because the people who want us to stop eating meat also want
>us to stop harming animals, a population explosion occurs among
>these animals.I am surprised at how many people these days still envision a lovely stretch
of field with calves frolicking, and a barnyard with chickens roaming free;
Little chicks trailing after their mother like a Norman Rockwell painting.Worried about overpopulation? The reality is that scientists have even
learned how to alter a chickens reproductive cycle, and they have hens
crammed into wire-bottomed cages, pumping out eggs faster than Nature
ever imagined. If farm animals were left on their own, they would eat, hunt,
breed, and be hunted just like any other animal.
>It then has become a necessity to raise animals for the sole
>purpose of eating them, and therefore limit their numbers.Do you hear yourself? "raise animals à..(to) limit their numbers"?
IÆve got two moles eating my yard. IÆm gonna breed moles and kill
about 8 per month. That way IÆm controlling them by killing 80%!!
How can Breeding animals limit their numbers?
None.