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Originally Posted by Mescalito
Good points.. I think there is a lot to be said for the language taht is used to describe what we eat.. like pork is pig.. beef is cow.. etc. It seems like those words were contrived by those selling the pig or the cow so there would be created a perception that they were different things.. or at least divide it as to avoid the bad part.. the death of the animal for our consumption. Hmm.. I was going somweher more to this.. but all I can think of now is thinking about what I am typing right now. Some perpetual spiral thing going on. Goodnight.
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I agree, I feel like calling certain meats beef, veal and pork does something in our head which makes us forget what it is we're really consuming. It's like, "Hey, this is not a cow...this is beef...eat it!" The other thing I wanted to point out is, it's not always the consumption of something which was once living that makes vegeterians uncomfortable with meat. For example, I can respect the traditional Native American way of using our Earthly resources. I respect that for everything consumed, they gave back and they took only what they needed. What I don't understand is the process by which we do things today. I don't understand how a person can have the heart to tear a baby calf away from its' mother and lock it in a tiny cage without proper nourishment so the baby calf can barely walk by the time it should be running and jumping. I don't understand feeding chickens so much growth hormones that the majority of them spend their lives with broken legs which can't support their weight. I don't understand dipping a live pig into heat and burning it alive in order to burn off it's hair. I don't understand cutting off a cows horns and branding it on the face with scolding hot rock. Most of what we do to these poor animals is what we imagine our "Christian" hell to be like in the Bible. I don't necessarily believe in Christianity but to actually imagine myself in hell would suck...and realistically, we put those poor animals through that exact hell daily and by the thousands. That's where my biggest problem with the meat industry comes from.