I am not sure --- I think animal slaughter - is perhaps like...

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Originally posted by olive blossom ↑

Originally posted by pintohoo
"Just wondering where would you draw the line?
Are fish animals? and some say plants have feeling too?"

well, I have thought it through for many years - and, in the end - I just eat.

I do eat animals, I eat fish and I eat plants - and, yes - I think that they all have feelings - - but, I also understand that I am here - so, I must eat to survive -

If I were to rail against any particular thing in the meat industry - it would not be halal killing -- it would be the transportation of animals from the paddocks to an abattoir to kill them --

I would far rather see animals killed in the paddock in as gentle a way as possible -- I do understand that that is not economic - but, that is what I would go for if I were to change anything.

Of course if I were God - I would not have invented such a barbaric idea in the first place where survival completely depended on the destruction and consumption of other life forms -

but, it seems that I am not god.
I would certainly ban halal slaughtering.

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I am not sure ---

I think animal slaughter - is perhaps like political systems ---

it's not that important which system you have -- it's not the system that makes the difference -- it's the people who are in the system and run things.

it's always down to the people

I guess common sense says that if you stun an animal before you kill it - then, it should be better (less worse) for the animal -

but, there is so much to animal slaughter - that could be done to lower the trauma - stunning would be only a part of what I would look at

Even shooting with a large enough calibre weapon an animal in the wild -- it's really down to the person with the gun to how much trauma or not that an animal suffers

IMO - a good hunter - an animal would know nothing about it's death - one second it would be alive and the next fraction of a second it would be dead and totally unaware of what just happened -

but, the same weapon in the hands of someone else - could be a vastly different story for an animal.

As I said - I cannot wait for the day to be able to buy a factory steak (hamburger will do) - as long as it tastes the same, has similar nutrition and is affordable - I will be at the front of the queue and I will never buy meat from what was a living animal again.
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