China Confirms Case, Begins Civet Cat Cull

MacCandace wrote:

But at least with the calves you are not killing off a wild animal in
hopes of making it extinct.

Good point.

True, but they all feel pain and fear and want to live, wild or not.

Right. An animal has no concept of itself as "threatened", "endangered"
or "food animal". The labels are human artifice. We designate value to
animals only when we have driven or are about to drive them to
extinction.

Whether steer, civet, orangantan or human, we all die the only way we
can, one by one.

frlpwr wrote:
Right. An animal has no concept of itself as "threatened", "endangered"
or "food animal". The labels are human artifice. We designate value to
animals only when we have driven or are about to drive them to
extinction.

I'm sorry, but one has to eat. Sometimes animals die to feed other animals
(including humans). Yes, I consider this a better death because it at
least serves a purpose of keeping another animal alive or even happy.
Killing just to make an animal extinct on the other hand is a deatht that
should not happen.

Alice

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The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't
worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev
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frlpwr wrote:
Right. An animal has no concept of itself as "threatened", "endangered"
or "food animal". The labels are human artifice. We designate value to
animals only when we have driven or are about to drive them to
extinction.

I'm sorry, but one has to eat. Sometimes animals die to feed other animals
(including humans). Yes, I consider this a better death because it at
least serves a purpose of keeping another animal alive or even happy.
Killing just to make an animal extinct on the other hand is a deatht that
should not happen.

Alice

--
The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't
worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev
|\ _,,,---,,_ Tigress
/,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ http://havoc.gtf.gatech.edu/tigress
|,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-'
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat by Felix Lee.

itter (MacCandace) wrote:

My point being that I suppose if the civet cats are not fit to eat that they
would consider there is no point in them existing at all.

I see. That does help explain the situation, even though people from other
cultures disagree with their reasoning.

itter (MacCandace) wrote:

My point being that I suppose if the civet cats are not fit to eat that they
would consider there is no point in them existing at all.

I see. That does help explain the situation, even though people from other
cultures disagree with their reasoning.