From: threejaguar-AT-yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:08:56 -0800
Subject: RE: Elvis


On 20 Nov 01, at 18:28, Ze Sprout wrote:

> At 08:30 -0800 20-11-2001, threejaguar-AT-yahoo.com wrote:
> >> We still eat red meat, but not very often, chicken is completely out
> >> unless we are at a chinese buffet--where it may be cat-- and we still
> >> eat pork.  We just bought a free range hog my niece raised that's being
> >> butchered.  I ate a couple of squirrels back in September, but I don't
> >> feel the urge any more to hunt deer; simply too much violence in my
> >> diet.
> 
> >Every time you eat meat, you have violence in your diet.
> 
> yes ? and that means ?
> 
> >I'm not a jain, and am willing to accept the need to hunt.
> 
> Wow, thank you very much, sir.
>

I did not intend to imply that I had any business giving you orders 
on how to live your life. Apparently I came across that way;  I 
apologize.
 
> > I prefer 
> >wild game... I know how it lived, what environment and feed it had, and I
> >know exactly how it died.
> >
> >Unless I start a farm, I will not be able to warrant the same level of
> >humane treatment of my kills
> 
> Do you mean: animals in the wild get a humane treatment, or do you mean:
> killing wild animals is humane.

Animals in most factory farms get inhumane treatment. This would 
leave me with three alternatives to avoid contributing to this:

1) Hunt

2) Raise my own livestock

3) Buy only from people I trust to not be inhumane to their livestock.

Personally, I prefer option #1... I just wish I had the time to practice 
it more often, and enough willpower to swear off fast food...



Regards,

Kristopher K. Barrett

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