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- From: robert@isgtec.com (Robert Osborne)
- Newsgroups: can.general,talk.politics.animals
- Subject: Re: hunting dog wanted
- Message-ID: <4078@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:42:30 GMT
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- Rosemary Waigh (g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu) wrote:
- :
-
- Welcome back Rosemary.
-
- Maybe now you can explain why it's ok to painlessly kill vegatables for
- food but it isn't ok to painlessly kill animals for food. That is a
- what point you skipped out on the last debate, isn't it?
-
- : Because some of us are opposed to needless suffering and death, such as that
- : caused by humans hunting.
-
- But it isn't just hunting that your against. Your position, as I
- understand it, is that ALL killing of animals is immoral, humans
- hunting for food is the moral equivalent of humans slaughtering
- domestic animals for food. Please be state clearly that this is your
- position so the new readers of the group understand where you are
- coming from.
-
- : "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
- : concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." - Emerson
-
- Oh, here it is in your sig. Thanks.
-
- Rob.
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