"CatNipped" wrote in message
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: "Richard Evans" wrote in message
: news :
: Now I know which scene. Yes, I guess it bothered me too.
:
: I grew up sort of a farm kid. We had a working farm for a while (circa
: 1950), and even after my dad gave that up and went into corporate life
: we still lived in the country and had animals. We used to butcher
: chickens and that never bothered me. But we raised a calf for meat and
: when the time came we couldn't butcher it. We did sell it, and I
: suppose it ultimately was butchered. For years therafter we'd
: speculate on whether we were eating "Sammy" when my mother served
: roast beef.
:
: Times change, and sentiments change. Thirty years ago I was an avid
: hunter. Now I live in a heavily wooded suburb and take more delight in
: feeding the squirrels, rabbits, and deer than I would in using them as
: food.
:
: Dick
:
: I live with 4 carnivores and 1 other omnivore, and was also reared in the
: country, so I take a more prosaic view on this topic. I have no problem
: with hunters who hunt for food (my daughter and SIL always have a freezer
: full of venison and wild boar and this helps tremendously with their
grocery
: bills for themselves and their 3 daughters). I *do* have a problem with
: hunters how hunt for "sport" or trophies (although if you watch a cat
hunt,
: you will see them "play" with their prey - does anyone here know if the
: extra adrenaline thus produced by the prey adds flavor or a necessary
: ingredient to a cat's diet, is that why they do it or is it just for
fun??).
:
: We live in a world that is dominated by the food chain, a natural
: progression of eat and be eaten (and despite what you've heard, man is not
: always on top of the food chain). If it's a matter of killing in order to
: continue living then I'm not going to volunteer to cease living. Man was
: evolved to exist on a varied diet including meat. Today we have the
luxury
: of being able to take diet supplements or to vary our diets to include
: vegetable proteins, but this is only a recent development. I think that,
: for the people who do purchase meat at the grocery, to denigrate those who
: kill their own food is being hypocritical - but to be fair, neither
cattle,
: chickens, goats, or lambs (among other domesticated food animals) are
being
: threatened by extinction, but there are some hunted animals that are.
:
: Hugs,
:
: CatNipped
:
:

I don't have a problem with people or animals killing for
food. I do have a problem with someone petting a goat
and having the goat look up lovingly and trustingly and
then have someone pull out a knife and cut its throat. It's
the things kids nightmares are made of and a depiction of
humans as unusually cruel. And the depiction of her caring
about the goat enough for it to be that attached and trusting
in her makes it all the more disgusting and perverted.
I really didn't want to describe this but I am giving in to
the impulse to my own need for catharsis... and in the
giving other people who read this an unnecessarily
unpleasant mental picture.

If anyone who hasn't seen the movie and feels like seeing
what I mean and wondering if children who don't understand
the pat rationalization being spoken while this barbarous
act is being done, rent the movie and watch the 5th chapter
with no sound. It's about 1 minute into that chapter of the
DVD.