Who said I could not kill an animal for food? Your assumptions are totally
incorrect and naive as usual.

I can and do kill lobsters, fish, shrimp etc. for food. When I was a boy on the farm
I killed chickens and turkeys, helped with butchering pigs and cows and have no
regrets. A man's gotta eat. However a pet is a different story. A pet is part of the
family and a surrogate human by the obligation one assumes when one accepts a
pet into the family. This places the pet in a different realm than a farm animal and
one must treat the pet like one would treat a member of the family. Is this so hard
to understand. It's more a matter of obligations assumed at the outset and meeting
those obligations. Standards assumed are standards not to be tossed aside lightly.

S.Simon


"katysails" wrote in message ...
Everyone should know what a steak really costs......

People don't wnat to know...they want to live their nice clean complacent lives where pain, dirt, sualor and misery never touch them
and reality is what you see on TV....
This society would be doomed if there ever was a cataclysmic event that took away all their toys and fureblows...truly only the
strong and able would be the survivors...Neal would perish since he would not be able to kill an animal to feed himself (yet he
merrily broils pork chops on his grill...never had a thought for the pig that donated that meat).

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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein