Katra wrote:
> In article .com>,
> "-L." > wrote:
> >
>
> Hmmmm... time for you to become a vegetarian!

I was vegan for 4 years and veg for god-knows-how long after that. I
don't eat a lot of meat now, but I do eat it. I try to buy organic,
humanely slaughtered when I can. I have a vegan lifestyle.

>
> But, we are rather brutal to those as well!
> We take a fresh, living fruit and slice it into pieces with a large
> sharp knife, or a beautiful little carrot or onion, then heartlessly
> throw them into hot fat or water to be cooked! We don't even kill
them
> or anesthetize them!

Well, I hate killing anything living. Seriously. I think it's all
beautiful.
I really need to be a fruititarian. ;P

>
> Ok, just pulling your leg......
>
> We humans consume other living things to live and survive. If I were
to
> feel guilty over ever bite of food, I'd starve to death. :-P

Well, humans are omnivorous by evolution, but we have free will. I
just try to make informed choices. I also don't expect anyone else to
follow my beliefs, nor do I think anyone else should expect the same of
others.

>
> I suppose that milk, dairy products and infertile eggs are the least
> brutal. At least you are not killing anything when you consume those.

> Animal husbandry practices for the animals providing them might be
> questionable, but I raise my own free range eggs.....
>
> --
> K.

Cool! We want chickens sometime soon. I want to wait until we are in
a different home, though - this property isn't really suitable.

-L.