Animal Welfare or Veiled Racism?

[denuseri]

Humm, those a toughies, in so far as how one draws up their own ethical paramaters. IE should human ethics apply to animals, or should animals have rights to begin with etc.

Though evolution also made us into the dominant specis of the planet via our omnivourous capacity. With out the eating of cooked meat we wouldnt have developed the higher levels of intellegence we currently pocess today as a species.

Additionally, it looks as if everything living, feeds off something else that is living to sustain itself in a similar manner.

The animals are still being killed, so I assume from their point of view they would rather not, everything living after all as a natural drive to survive. From that perspective I dont think the animals give a flip wether they get stunned first or not, they just want to live period. If peta really wants to go after something evil being done to animals, they should perhaps be more focused on the industrialization methods used in chicken factories and pig farms where conditions are abhorant from beinging to end for the animals.

Is it a veiled attack against certian religions and cultures? I suppose it could be viewed as such, depending upon just what the real motivations of the group behind it are.

[thir]

Humm, those a toughies, in so far as how one draws up their own ethical paramaters. IE should human ethics apply to animals, or should animals have rights to begin with etc.

Though evolution also made us into the dominant specis of the planet via our omnivourous capacity. With out the eating of cooked meat we wouldnt have developed the higher levels of intellegence we currently pocess today as a species.

As I see it, we do eat animals, and that is not the problem. The problem is how we treat them, because I do not believe with the bibel that all the world was given to us to do with as we pleased.

I see nothing wrong with hunting, if done in a proper way. By that I mean you eat and use what you kill, not for 'sport'. Killing and not using is dishonourable and wasteful.

As for domestic animals, as is said, we raise them and we kill them, but in between birth and death we have a responsibility. And for the death itself. Everything else is dishonourable.

Additionally, it looks as if everything living, feeds off something else that is living to sustain itself in a similar manner.

Yes, so it is.

The animals are still being killed, so I assume from their point of view they would rather not, everything living after all as a natural drive to survive. From that perspective I dont think the animals give a flip wether they get stunned first or not, they just want to live period.

Having seen it, I strongly disagree. The method does matter. Think about the ways we try to make death penalty humane.

If peta really wants to go after something evil being done to animals, they should perhaps be more focused on the industrialization methods used in chicken factories and pig farms where conditions are abhorant from beinging to end for the animals.

Agreed! But one thing does not rule out another.