On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:52:33 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 9/11/2016 6:48 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:52:34 -0700 (PDT), Roy >
>> wrote:
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>>> On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 1:46:04 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
>>>> In article >,
>>>> says...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 12:05:26 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>> On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 4:54:21 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/11/2016 1:05 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> There's not much point in judging the way people ate who are far removed from our place and time. People in the future will think it abhorrent that we killed animals so that we could partake of their flesh.
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>>>>>>> Could be. Animals eat animals though so is it such a bad thing to do?
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>>>>>> Animals have no souls or carry with them the concept of evil. All animals that kill and eat animals have no problem with it - except humans. A lot of humans consider eating flesh to be a bad thing so the answer to your question depends on who you ask.
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>>>>> And our concept of evil is imparted into our being through the religious kooks of the world who influence parents and their children. The concept that humans are inherently evil from the time of conception is one of the biggies. "Original Sin" goes way back but is still taught today.
>>>>> Causes nothing but trouble IMHO.
>>>>>
>>>>> As far as eating flesh is concerned...what about the flesh of the plants that we eat? Carrots and lettuce have feelings too, so it is said. When you cut into a beet, maybe that is real blood that the beet "sees" pouring out of its poor savaged body.
>>>>> If you believe everything the Bible reveals you will know that the Earth and all it contains is for OUR use so animals are certainly fair game.
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>>>> God, you're a relic from the past.
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>>> Obviously you're very poorly educated. I always regarded the Dutch as being smart and well educated. What happened to you?
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>> He's a vegetarian who has problems with people eating meat. It's
>> animal cruelty, yannow? Except for fish, apparently. Fish are *******s
>> and don't deserve to live. It's not cruel to kill and eat fish,
>> apparently. Cognitive dissonance at it's very finest.
>>
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>One of his positions is the way animals are raised. Most chickens and
>hogs have not had the best care along the way. It is more factory than
>farm. I can agree with that part of raising animals for food.

No question at all about that and I totally agree. There's no need for
it, and IMO the price for most commonly available meat is far too low,
as it reflects the poor treatment those animals have had to endure.