Not nice

**99%** · 06-10-2005, 01:33 PM

ofcourse this leads to the discrepancy with fishing
and in that case the slaughtering of cows, sheep, chickens etc etc all living foods we buy in supermarkets - but these ofcourse died for a "function"

I dont really have a problem with fishing but then again maybe because they are smaller and less rare and taste great...
on the other - if these were pictures of them standing proudly over cows, sheep, chickens which are ment for the supermarket /butcher shops - i would accept it better since then the animals had died in a more "natural way" in ze wild (farmers field)...

**manker** · 06-10-2005, 01:45 PM

I used to go fishing a lot when a teenager. Still would go sea-fishing if we were having a barbeque, I think. I see no ethical debate about killing 'cos you're hungry. People have to eat.

While I don't eat most meat (I eat fishies), I have no problem with other people doing so. We farm animals to provide food for our society, this is a good thing.

Hunting for fun is a different matter entirely. Those guys above didn't have a hippopotamus sandwich

**99%** · 06-10-2005, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by manker

We farm animals provide food for our society, this is a good thing.

we farm animals

ofcourse the reasoning behind killing "safari" animals is that they need to be killed in order to keep the ratio correct to avoid "overpopulation" in the game parks - same fkdup logic applies to whale killing in japan and um....norway

- although the whale killing is for the meat & oil......."animals to provide food for our society, this is a good thing."............

**manker** · 06-10-2005, 02:19 PM

I can see how that sentence might not work

Safari park culls are regulated and tbh, I don't know much about them so don't mind leaving it to the conservationists who do. It doesn't look like the people above are involved in conservation tho' - more trophy hunting. A bow and arrow isn't exactly the best way to humanely kill a hippo

I'm alright with killing non-endangered whales for food and stuff, if that's what they do. Tho' from what I've read, Japan are a bit over-zealous in their pursuit of whaling.

**JPaul** · 06-10-2005, 02:38 PM

I don't see the big deal.

I don't see the point in doing it, but then I also eat cow, chicken, pig etc.

Which would you choose, living in your natural habitat and being killed by a predator. Or born and raised in a cage, to ultimately be killed for food. You be dead whatever the motivation of the killer.

At least the animals there got to live prior to being killed. Which does not justify killing them, but there are many more examples of cruelty to domestic animals, which most of us ignore as it gives us a steady stream of inexpensive food.