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- From: achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach)
- Subject: Re: Eating killed animals (was Re: Gun Control Petition)
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- References: <1992Dec23.150404.29387@cdf.toronto.edu> <schuck.725650169@sfu.ca> <1992Dec31.165905.10759@tse.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:10:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.165905.10759@tse.uucp> wayne@tse.uucp (Wayne Hines) writes:
- >In article <schuck.725650169@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
- >>g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
- >>
- >
- >Let's be reasonable. Comparing cattle castration to human medical treatment
- >is inaccurate and distorts Rosemary's argument. Cattle are castrated purely
- >for human gain - obviously they have no choice, and it is really not to their
- >benefit. People choose voluntarily to submit to medical procedures, and the
- >resulting pain is endured for longer-term benefits.
- >
- >So *I think* that Rosemary's point still stands unrefuted (by your arguments
- >at least).
-
- I'm not sure of the reason's for castration of cattle, but I'll bet Dan can
- enlighten us. In some other animals, it is to help control aggression, and
- works rather well. For example, on my ex-cats third visit to the vet to sew
- up injuries suffered in a cat fight, the vet took my dad in the back room and
- showed him a cat that was not expected to live through the night. He'd been
- horribly torn up in a fight with another tom. The vet suggested that if Amos
- were not neutered ( a nice word for castration) we could expect the same. Pop
- gave him the okay to do the neutering, and he never got mangled again. Lived
- to be 17 years old. What I'm getting at is, maybe cattle would also tend to
- fight if not neutered? I know that many other herd animals don't normally
- have more than one mature male to a herd of cows.
-
- Jeff Achenbach
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