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

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).

--
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

Simple Simon wrote:

... However a pet is a different story. A pet is part of the family and a surrogate human ....

Can you not see the madness in that notion? Remember the farm? In my day
the cat went out to hunt rodents and the dog came in to bark intruders
come bed time. Come daylight their places reversed but their jobs stayed
the same. We loved these animals - hell I still love cattle - but we
never, ever thot of them as surrogate humans or part of the family any
more than I thot of a beloved car, bike or boat as a surrogate human.
That IS sick, and the only people I know who exhibit that illness are
demonstrably unbalanced - folks who cannot get the companionship they
seem to need naturally. A healthy man derives sufficient companionship
from friends at a pub, sports bar, et cetera, and from wife and family;
those who cannot get it thru an unnatural relationship with a pet. In
their demented minds the pet takes on the human characteristics they
yearn for until they begin to think like you. It's become so common in
our urban culture that many, divorced from nature, begin to think it
natural. It is not.