Back to PETA, was-Re: [Sca-cooks] back to food was PETA

[chirhart_1]

I guess it would not be that hard India has been doing it for years.
chirhart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:22 AM
Subject: Back to PETA, was-Re: [Sca-cooks] back to food was PETA


>
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
> > I didn't read the article (nor do I open doors that say 'Do Not Open',
or
> > look down the barrel of a gun to find out if it's loaded, or throw scat
at
> > the Big Gorilla in the corner), but I can tell you that you cannot make
> > your kitty into a vegetarian. At least for any length of time- because
> cats
> > MUST have meat (or meat products for domesticated cats). IIRC it has to
do
> > with an enzyme. Cats that are vegetarian are ex-cats fairly quickly. And
> > _THAT_ is not ethical treatment of an animal, in my view.
> >
> > 'Lainie
>
> Well, the thing is, that these people just don't think. If tomorrow, every
> American became a vegetarian, just what would happen to all these uneaten
> animals? Would they be turned out to starve? Or "killed humanely" and
thrown
> in a pile to rot?No doubtr, they'd expect the farmers raising them to care
> for them for the rest of their natural lives- and try to legislate it.
> Trouble being, that the farmers woulkd quickly starve to death, including
> the big corperations.
>
> I'd be willing to make a member of PETA a bet- I'd be willing to give up
> animal flesh in any form, as long as they provided a comfortable and safe
> home for the animals I would otherwise have eaten- not put them out on a
> farm somewhere, but to care for them, themselves, for the rest of their
> natural lives.
>
> I'm willing to bet the PETA member would give up before I did ;-)
>
> Lessee- they'd obviously need to start with a cow, a pig, and a lamb, a
few
> chickens, rabbits, and lets not forget a salt water tank for all the
> lobsters, clams, oysters, scallops, and various other seafood I consume. I
> also dearly love duck and goose....
>
> Be interesting watching them fit all those critters into their apartment-
> and they'd have to add a lamb per year, a pig every two years, and a cow
> every 5 years (roughly). Not to mention the other critters....
>
> Just wonder how long their commitment would last?
>
> Saint Phlip,
> CoDoLDS
>
>