aem wrote:
> Ranee Mueller wrote:
>
>> Rabbit is a food animal, [snip]
>
>
> Exactly right, and you'd think that would be the end of the matter, but
> there are a lot of people who for one reason or another resist that
> concept. We raised chickens and rabbits when I was a child and they
> weren't pets, they were food (and pelts from the rabbits). Later, I
> learned to fish and to hunt (deer) and I was thrilled to contribute
> food to the table. Now, I have a vegetable garden and I love eating
> what I grow.
>
> I tell people sometimes that getting food from the supermarket is a
> compromise foisted on us by our choice to live a life that doesn't
> allow hunting and gathering and growing all our own food. Most of them
> think I'm crazy.
>
> There was a thread a day or two ago in which the poster described his
> school-age girl as vegetarian, at least partly because she loved
> animals. No offense, but that's an ignorant little girl. -aem
>

my kid says shes gonna be a vegetarian when she grows up. She regales us
of tales of the farm she's going to have when she's older where "hunters
and farmers can't kill them". She still likes to eat meat, though.

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